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[zencat]

Originally posted by Tanger
Is zencat going to have another bash at a treatment?...

Nope, that was the only Bond film/fiction project I'll ever do (until Eon or Ian Fleming Pubs asks me to do otherwise ). But at some point I do want to write a very complete Raymond Benson retrospective for CBn, and an article about the merits of Moonraker. Also an anniversary article about the collectible Live & Let Die (like my Casino Royale article from this year).

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow
I am a particular fan of throwing a real twist in at the end of the book. Something that makes people sit up and take notice. I like to pull the rug out from under the reader at times.

Well, I actually have something like that going on in My Enemy's Enemy, my current fanfic, if I ever finish it and get enough guts to post it on CBn, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's going to be very good I think, I'm really excited about this one.

[Triton]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow
Sounds interesting Double-O Six my fanfic deals with a James Bond  in the Royal Navy before he entered the British secret service.

Of course this is one Naval officer who will become involved in saving the world from destruction.

Will you be following the background given to James Bond in the Fleming novels? Will this story occur during Bond's service in the Special Branch of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserves during World War II beginning in 1941? Or will you move the story farther into the future?

[DLibrasnow]

No. I am not following the background given to Bond in the Fleming novels. Actually, I guess you could say I am writing a Cold War era Bond thriller with a young naval officer that would go on to operate in the secret service in the 1970s and 1980s.

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow
No. I am not following the background given to Bond in the Fleming novels. Actually, I guess you could say I am writing a Cold War era Bond thriller with a young naval officer that would go on to operate in the secret service in the 1970s and 1980s.

It's a necessary time frame because of certain story elements that will become clear once I post the first few chapters. I was of course aware of the Fleming elements you mentioned Triton but I had to take some artistic license to make my plot work.

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by Qwerty


Well, I actually have something like that going on in My Enemy's Enemy, my current fanfic, if I ever finish it and get enough guts to post it on CBn, you'll see what I'm talking about. It's going to be very good I think, I'm really excited about this one.

I am really pumped to get back to work on my fanfic after chatting about it here on CBN today!

[Qwerty]

Yeah, DLibrasnow. Now, that I have the time on vacation, I'm going to try and get a lot done!

[DLibrasnow]

I am going to be putting some final touches to it and then posting the chapters I have fine tuned onto CBN.

I think "Whispers From the Past" will be my working title. It fits the theme of the story very well.

[Triton]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow
No. I am not following the background given to Bond in the Fleming novels. Actually, I guess you could say I am writing a Cold War era Bond thriller with a young naval officer that would go on to operate in the secret service in the 1970s and 1980s.

Doesn't Admiral Hargreaves ask Bond "Ark Royal wasn't it?" in The Spy Who Loved Me. Could this mean that James Bond served on the Audacious-class HMS Ark Royal (R09)? Was he a pilot flying a Supermarine Scimitar, De Havilland Sea Vixen, or a Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer in the 1960s?

[Qwerty]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow
I am going to be putting some final touches to it and then posting the chapters I have fine tuned onto CBN.  

I think "Whispers From the Past" will be my working title. It fits the theme of the story very well.

Good choice! I like that one quite alot. If and when I do get my fanfics on CBn, I'll have to do 'Beyond The Limits' first, although, I've got to get the file on ym new computer first! I have a feeling, doing so will be a pain....

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by Triton


Doesn't Admiral Hargreaves ask Bond "Ark Royal wasn't it?" in The Spy Who Loved Me.  

Yes....I am following the logic that Bond did serve on the Ark Royal!

[DanMan]

My fan script, "A Spy In Shining Armor" should be up early 2004. There's a couple of snippets that you can find in the Fan Fiction Discussion.

[clinkeroo]

Originally posted by Tanger
Anyway, what I was really wondering was what we can expect in the upcoming year. Do Mr. Asterix, Clinkeroo, Xen or Jim have any other projects lined up? Is zencat going to have another bash at a treatment? Are any other members currently working on fan fiction that they hope to have released by next year?

What can we expect?

Time, time, time; it's always about time.

Somewhere in the near future I'm going to move the story Deathstyles of the Rich and Blameless to CBn in a revised state.

Sometime in the not-to-distant-future I'm going to finally going to finish my Tsetse fly short story, Before I Wake.

Somehow I'm going to bumble through learning to translate Chinese to pinyin (a constant cry for help to any CBn'ers who can write and edit Mandarin or Cantonese ) so I can hit the ground running with my next Bond novel, The Art of (Cold) War.

Somewhere, sometime, I'm somehow going to get somewhat blotto, tanked, flushed to the gills, and utterly annihilated and then take another crack at Dr. Niles Crane's 15-minute challenge .

Something like that.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Originally posted by clinkeroo
The Art of (Cold) War.

Love this title clinkeroo.

Reminds me a little of another title, Just A Little Cold War, but I can't remember right now where I saw it or who wrote it.

[Johnboy007]

'Til Their Dying Day has to get finished sometime.

[DLibrasnow]

Working on my fanfic just became my newest New Years resolution.

[Xenobia]

Originally posted by Tanger
I've read the first Chapter Xen. It's a very original idea to have a James Bond novel without Bond as the main character but his female opposite instead.

You make a very interesting comment Tanger. I meant for both Bond and Amanda to be the main characters...I guess you feel our boy Bond was slighted in some way?

-- Xenobia

[Xenobia]

Come on ladies! There have got to be more of us that write fan fiction.

-- Xen

[Genrewriter]

I'm considering writing another fan script, right now the plot is looking to be Bond vs SPECTRE for one final battle but that could change.

[Tanger]

Zencat, one question I have is why did you call Shatterhand GUNTRAN when in the novel he is called GUNTRUM. Why not just stick with the original?

[Blofeld's Cat]

I'll be working on Part 3 of my "The Life In A Day Of A Spy" series when I retire to Bali in the new year.

My residence will be called "Mata Emas," which is Indonesian for Golden Eye.

Honest to God.

[DLibrasnow]

LOL...Interesting idea Brett!!

[Goldmember420]

I'm writing a story, its called "If Looks Could Kill" and im going to have a lot of twists in it! I really hate writing the first few chapters because you have to introduce characters, and it feels boring to write, i cant wait to get into really writing my story, because all of the characters have something to do with each other so i hope its going to come out really good!:-) you can read the first chapter of "If Looks Could Kill" in the 'Fan Fiction' section of the forms! And if ya do, then please give me some feedback in 'Fan Fiction Discussion' thread!:-) thanks!

[Xenobia]

Brett....you rock! That's all I have to say!

-- Xen

[Joyce Carrington]

Originally posted by Xenobia
Come on ladies!  There have got to be more of us that write fan fiction.

-- Xen

*waves hands like crazy*

Uh...

Whatever happened to Fawn?

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by Goldmember420
I'm writing a story, its called "If Looks Could Kill" and im going to have a lot of twists in it! I really hate writing the first few chapters because you have to introduce characters, and it feels boring to write, i cant wait to get into really writing my story, because all of the characters have something to do with each other so i hope its going to come out really good!:-) you can read the first chapter of "If Looks Could Kill" in the 'Fan Fiction' section of the forms! And if ya do, then please give me some feedback in 'Fan Fiction Discussion' thread!:-) thanks!

In contrast I love writing the first few chapters precisely because you get to introduce the characters to the reader and lay some of the pipes for the plot.

[double0kevin]

i myself plan on doing a james bond script for trhe new year, but i am still in the thinking procces of it all. i want to do a james bond story like no other. i want people to be wow'ed and think "wow, this is really original". i have only recently finished "THE FALLEN KILL" which was up on this site. so until i get feed back from that, my script is on hold!

[Jimbo007]

For the last six months I have written A Shot With No Remorse (not to be mistaken as Double-O Six's A Shot In The Dark; it just so happened that we both have similar words in the title). After suspicious criminal activity is found on England and Romanian land, James Bond is sent to the country to discover who is in charge. But things take an emotional twist when Bond joins an attractive female SIE agent with a shadowy past. Along the way, a criminal sydicate driven by an emotionally-ruined and psychotic terrorist launches an attack where moles expose the country's security, revealing their next attack; a suicidal ambush on the CIA and MI6 headquarters! I'm going for a dark, emotional, and suspenseful feel.

[Genrewriter]

I've been thinking of re-examining the movie version of The Man With the Golden Gun and. I was thinking of posting it in the Roger Moore forum but if the staff is interested, I could do it as a full article for the site.

[Qwerty]

I've been thinking of re-examining the movie version of The Man With the Golden Gun and. I was thinking of posting it in the Roger Moore forum but if the staff is interested, I could do it as a full article for the site.

I for one would be interested Genrewriter! I did something similar to that with the film version of Octopussy, it's quite fun.

I wish you the best of luck if youy decide to do it!

~Devin
--Qwerty--