For All those who actually read this, I thank you. If you are looking for a complete list of my works, scroll down to the bottom.
Updates: As of 15-OCT-07
I now have regained access to my account, so some updating should happen in the near future. =)
UPDATES AFTER NOV 2007
Elemental Assassins: Protectors of Gaea
10-Aug-06 Chapter One edited and lengthened.
10-Aug-06 Chapter Two, Three
A little Desperation Never Hurts
10-Aug-06 Prologue and Chapter One edited.
10-Aug-06 Chapter Two added
Desert Queen
10-Aug-06 Prologue added.
Learning to Live
27-Aug-06 Chapter Two 75 percent Complete
10-Aug-06Chapter One 50 percent Complete
Name: Sterling
Age: 17 in 30 days
Favourites
Member of YoungWriters101 Yahoo! Group
Favourite Thing: My favourite thing is the moon. For some reason, I love watching it, fantasizing about it. One of my muses, Yue, whom you will most likely meet in the near future, is my moon.
Hobbies: I enjoy writing, drawing, cooking and reading. I spend the majority of my time doing these things. (For some reason people think I need to get a life…) Oh yes I also like playing DDR, learning languages and sleeping. I believe sleeping takes the cake.
I play a few sports and am invovled in various community outreach programs...
Favourite Authors: Currently… Sara Douglass, Piers Anthony, Margaret Weis, J.R.R Tolkein, Margaret Atwood, Mercedes lackey, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Mostly her Darkover Series), there is also one who writes the novel Cloud of Sparrows (Suzumo no Kumo), but I am not sure of his name. Those are the ones that spring to mind. I am quite sure that there are more, but for now... that is all.
My favourite fictionpress authors…well the ones on my favourites, but also the ones in my favourite stories, I keep track of what I have read that way. I am extremely picky with what I read and what I write.
Favourite Music Artists: Aaliyah, Alanis Morissete, Alicia Keys, Black-eyed Peas, Brandy, Coldplay, Dru Hill, Evanescence, Green Day, India Arie, Joe, Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliot, Pink, Savage Garden, TLC, U2 (I have recently developed this taste), A lot of anime theme songs…surprisingly I like to listen to some classical music as well, but only have access to it in music class. Mozart…Schubert, and Clara Schumann to name a few.
Favourite Fiction Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Action/ Adventure, Historical Fiction(only the amazing ones) Some horror and I enjoy a good suspense.
Review Policy: I am of the strong belief of reviewing peoples work. I return the favour when people review mine. I only criticize when asked, unless I feel it prudent to a stories success. I will also reply to all reviews I receive.
Background
I am a high school student (grade 12) that enjoys the arts and I would very much like to become a chef, which is a far cry from writing. It is another passion of mine and I like it much more every time I do it. Writing helps keep me sane (although my sisters would beg to differ on the subject of my sanity), because it gets little side conversations of my many characters out of my head. It is my hope that one day all the characters in my head will have a story and that I will be proud enough of my abilities to stop re-writing it.
I started writing a long time ago, just for assignments and such, but I believe that I found enjoyment in writing sometime between grades five and six. My stories, as they develop, have changed drastically. I am no longer trying to please my friends with “popular” writing, but trying to better myself as a writer. Writing takes precedence over a lot of things in my life…mostly Physics, a class that I loathe! But all joking aside, I would love feedback to help me on the right path.
Most of my stories are based on a Planet, imaginary of course (which saddens me to no end), named Gaea. Most would consider it a milieu story, but its more character than they think. My other stories range from romance, fantasy, and historical fiction…
Well, ttfn.
Sterling Douglas
I'm always open to suggestions, useful ones...
Stories
Current
Desert Queen
I personally have to push myself to write this one, I like the concept, but one of the characters refuses to go along with anything I want.
This is the life story of one of Gaea’s great Queens. Most queens are older; most queens are married and live happily ever after. Asriole is not one of those Queens. A tale of why the Sha’lyhaii Desert became the Desert of Lost Hearts.
Elemental Assassins: Protectors of Gaea
EA: PoG is one of my oldest works. It is a tale of Elementals who try their best to protect their world from harm. Using their elemental powers as well as their learned skills, they stop those who seek to harm their home. This tale takes place in a time where bonds that once rung true and seemed impossible to break, fray and cause mistrust and plunge Gaea into the dark years. I resurrected this story under the request of a close friend, who wanted to see where it would go.
A Little Desperation Never Hurts
Your world is about to end. Not in the melodramatic "The Sky is Falling Crap" no I mean hardcore destruction, chaotic screaming and rampaging death on every planet in the Galaxy, all because of one species. Humans. I'm about to tell you the tale of Gaea, my planet, and how its fate connects to yours. And so my tale begins…
Forthcoming
Reign of Terror: Brightness Diminished
Reign of Terror: Lights of Asturia Extinguished
Reign of Terror: A flickering Light
Mingled Fates: The Return of the Light
Mingled Fates: Brightest Soul
The Mystery of Sahde’s Tree
The Pain of the Looking Glass
Where the Soul Lays
Learning to Live
Links/ Groups
Member of YoungWriters101 Yahoo! Group
http://www.group.yahoo.com/group/youngwriters101/
Comment Replies
Rainbow Maid
Muahahahahaha to you as well my friend. Well I hope that these few chapters will suffice for the time being. As always, I will continue to criticize you when you ask, so fear not, Sterling is here. Hehehe. All joking aside, Hotep needs a lot more work, its seeming a little two dimensional, maybe you should add more (you know what’s coming next) description, more background into your characters to seem like they are real people. Yes, I will review and thank you greatly for this one.
In answer to you question, I either take a name that I like and change it, find a name in a baby name book or make up one based on sounds. Like Jhe’lyla, no actual name resembles this, but it sounds pretty and reminds me of Jalila, a name that I hated the spelling of. Sounds, objects, capabilities and personality traits are what my names are based on. My names define my characters. Thank you for liking my description ability, but I loathe dialogue so that is what I work on more. Tell me if it is believable, the things the characters say, because I am extremely worried about that. Until next time.
Dezdemona
Hello my love. I believe that it is you that I have to thank for the reposting of this horrid affair. Well, as you predicted, I am enjoying the writing of it much more and am more involved in the plot than I ever was in grade nine. It is three years, well four and half now, old. I added more to it if you are willing to go back and take a look. But alas, my muses, formally known as Yue, Astra and Sirus are all now gone. Gone. It takes longer for me to form these chapters, but I will try to update every five days. Dearest Dez, thank you for reading and I hope to see more of you.
Every Thought
Well it seems that I have finally updated my story and have time to thank you for your faithful following. Outside of my friends and family, you are the one person that prodded me into writing more. I hope that Elnumera is going well and that it blossoms further than it already has and that you will continue to bind me with your words. I will try to update every five days or so, so please forgive me if I lag behind. Thank you for your suggestions, I ended up re writing and keeping things like that in mind. Your really did spur me on and I hope that this beautiful arrangement will continue. I was extremely glad to hear that Ryuuka was believable enough to be liked, because I love her very much.
I will continue to read Elnumera, as well as review and greatly appreciate your input.
Island Breeze
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for pointing those out. I thought that I had caught all of them, but obviously I haven’t. Thank you for taking the time to read carefully enough to notice and time to comment on that. The plot will reveal itself more and I wanted to keep it from being cliché, which is what most think of when they hear Elemental Assassins. I am glad that you like the title; I hope that the story will please you as well. I will, try my best to, keep the story intriguing and you entertained. I hope you like what I did do to Myria, even though my intents were unclear before hand. I once again thank you for reviewing and will get to some of your works as soon as humanly possible.
So end the comment replies, I hope that these chapters where well worth the wait. See you in15 days…approximately.
Sterling
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