Name:Adam Houten
Country:England
Favourite Authors:David Gemmel and Terry Pratchett
Age; 17
If you like my story/stories email me at my hotmail adress (and also msn address) : ade625@hotmail.com

I did write a few stories on here a couple of years ago, but I have long since abandoned them, and the world they were based in. The world was too serious compared to the humour I like to interject into my stories, and so now in my latest creation, the world is serious, but allows for more humour without damaging the feel.

"Talent" is an idea I have been working on for some time now, ever since I received some excellent advice on my previous story. I realised that to make it a truly good novel, I would have to totally rewrite my story, and out of respect for the characters, or because I felt like I needed a change, I decided to start anew.
This time the novel is based mainly around one character, who I have been moulding for over a year now, to make him likeable enough for me to write, and interesting at the same time. So I started off with the one character, then started to mould the world around him. Who are his family? Who would his friends be? Where would he live? How would he get by being a street performer?
These questions helped me to create the city of Daragoth, which is no where near as impressive as some of my previous cities, such as the Citadel, but still has a sort of charm to it as well. I am quite proud of the city, as with all the information I have created about it, it seems to work. The rest of the Kingdom needs some work, but luckily it may be some time before I have to write much about anything outside the city, so I will have a lot of time to think about it.
The story will have some hopefully impressive set pieces down the line, and I look forward to seeing what I make up as I write. Although I have a plan, I often tend to add more scenes as I think necessary, which flesh out the plot, and give insight on the characters.
If I ever get onto it, I would probably write Talent as a trilogy, with the second two novels branching out from the city somewhat. My plan is to leave the ending open ended (does that make sense?) to lead onto the next two novels, things getting bigger in scale each time, so the later parts will be quite different tales to the first. I would rather this than write a series of adventures for the character as I had originally planned, as I am a sucker for epics.

A new side project that I've been working on called "Slaves of the Tower" is probably the strangest combination of ideas I have ever had. It follows the journey of a young man who frees his sleeping civilisation from the grips of the tower and its owner to find that the civilisation has been kept in stasis for many generations. He takes it upon himself to find out what wrong those hundrends of years ago, and what caused almost all human life on the planet to be destroyed. He does so by searching for the evidence left behind, and by examining the intermittent memories of his long passed ancestors that plague not only him, but all of his people. Oh, and the main character has the ability to walk through walls. This is one of the few stories that I know the ending to before I started writing. The story explores the ideas of identity through memories, redemption from ancestors mistakes and the fallibility of deities. It will probably focus more on the personal journey of the main character and his companions as they try to come to terms with the pasts of their ancestors and develop their own individuality, rather than the development of the new civilisation. There will also be regular flashbacks, or rather, the memories that the characters see expressed alongside the story.

Why do I always have to write stories that are impossible to summarise?

Other than writing, I like to listen to, play, and write music, currently under the psudonym Ocean Avenue. It's sort of a band in potentia, where I've been writing songs, and recording them, but don't really want to perform on my own.

I also have done a couple of short comic series under the names of "Sticking to the Basics" and "Sticking Sporks in Something Else" (The second is a combination of mine, and others comics). They are probably more juvenile than my creative writing, but I am inclined to believe that they are humorous.

Give me a buzz sometime, I like to chat.