<!--quoteo(post=318414:date=Sep 16 2008, 03&#58;54 AM:name=cruisetarp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cruisetarp &#064; Sep 16 2008, 03&#58;54 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=318414">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b><div align='center'><!--sizeo:6--><span style="font-size:24pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#006400--><span style="color:#006400"><!--/coloro-->TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 16TH<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></div></b><br /><br />Kevin - good luck with your writing endeavours.   Just don&#39;t get rich and famous and forget us here.   <br />What type of writing do you prefer?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Hi MaryLou.  Thanks, I&#39;ve gotten back into my writing after the conference last weekend.  Was a little burned out before.<br /><br />My genre is best defined as action-adventure.  Not very common in my writing clubs.  Most of them are romance, mystery, and fantasy/sci-fi. Vampires seem to be popular right now.  Vampire detectives, vampire doctors, vampire nymphos...basically, people are rewriting every story ever told with vampires as the characters.  But that&#39;s not for me.<br /><br />I have two manuscripts that I&#39;m currently trying to rewrite.  The first is called &quot;Sting of the Scorpion&quot; (although I&#39;m on my third title for that one.)  It&#39;s about a group of Army National Guardsmen who are activated for Operation Iraqi Freedom to conduct aerial medevac operations.  Scorpion is this international terrorist who is plotting to bring down an American helicopter and exploit the crew for propaganda purposes.  Well, you can guess what happens.  One of Scorpion&#39;s people shoots down my protagonist&#39;s aircraft, and capture&#39;s three of the crewmembers.  The protagonist gets away, and has to find and rescue the others.<br /><br />My second story is called &quot;Missing in Action.&quot;  It&#39;s about a boy who&#39;s father is shot down in North Vietnam, but the remains are never recovered.  Years later, when relations between the US and Vietnam improve, he receives a letter from a team leader who is going to North Vietnam to search the crash site.  My protagonist, who is serving in the military by then, get&#39;s himself assigned as a liaison; and accompanies the team to search for his father.  That&#39;s the one I&#39;m focusing on now.<br /><br />Well, better get to work.  Don&#39;t want to waste any of Cheryl&#39;s (GW) tax dollars. <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":happy:" border="0" alt="happy.gif" />