Poll: Have You/Will You/Are You: Writing a Book?
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With a single dream, even an involved one like this, you might find a short story is a better length than a novel.Godavari said:
Good novels don't have "filler" in them. Every word is necessary.gigastrike said:
This is awesome. Write it. Don't worry about the copyrights until yr done, then change anything trademarked to something slightly different. Kodak becomes Code-ack, for example.Aby_Z said:
You can only get sued if you publish; and yr agent or publisher will help you with the parts that are too much like PDZ when you get that far.soren7550 said:
I've written one whole novel, and gotten 2/3rds of the way through oh, eight others, maybe? One is almost done but I can't get the ending right! Many of the others it's the third quarter I'm having trouble with. Sigh.
I wrote a really, really sucky book for my girlfriend a long time ago. I wrote it just for her though, so anyone else reading it will instantly think it sucks.
This is a concept very familiar to me.
Now, I want you to remember something. EVERYTHING new is about 90-95% recycled material. Books, games, film, tv. You name it, its been done somewhat before.
This is why Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkein, and George Lucas are so bloody famous. There stuff is not made up of mostly recycled material. Instead, they put their own style on things that have been done before...and this change is so dramatic that people declare them King.
As for myself, I could churn out a book that would get maybe a 50-60 percent review rating Like its nothing. And To be Honest, A lot of intelligent people, like my fellow escapees, could as well.
As for actully trying, I have quite a few ideas started out.
One of them is quite good. If done right, it COULD prove as popular as Harry Potter. And the subject material is perfect for a young adult/teenage/audience.
Now I'm mostly talking out of my ass, but I do know it will be quailty writing. Of course, quality items don't always prove the most popular.
I already have the entire basis, and pretty much the whoel storyline planned out.
Yes, I know its a risk comparing it to harry potter. But the more I think about it...There really is a market for it.
So why don't I do it right now? Well I have a fear of failure. Also, procrastination is outwaying motivation.
Now, I want you to remember something. EVERYTHING new is about 90-95% recycled material. Books, games, film, tv. You name it, its been done somewhat before.
This is why Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkein, and George Lucas are so bloody famous. There stuff is not made up of mostly recycled material. Instead, they put their own style on things that have been done before...and this change is so dramatic that people declare them King.
As for myself, I could churn out a book that would get maybe a 50-60 percent review rating Like its nothing. And To be Honest, A lot of intelligent people, like my fellow escapees, could as well.
As for actully trying, I have quite a few ideas started out.
One of them is quite good. If done right, it COULD prove as popular as Harry Potter. And the subject material is perfect for a young adult/teenage/audience.
Now I'm mostly talking out of my ass, but I do know it will be quailty writing. Of course, quality items don't always prove the most popular.
I already have the entire basis, and pretty much the whoel storyline planned out.
Yes, I know its a risk comparing it to harry potter. But the more I think about it...There really is a market for it.
So why don't I do it right now? Well I have a fear of failure. Also, procrastination is outwaying motivation.
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I sure hope your writing mechanics are better than you've demonstrated in this post.
It was just a yawn. Too many vampire romances in the world already. But it depends on what your intended market is. There's a new romance published by Mills and Boon and their peers every day. Some of them are even readable. None of them are expected to make much impact. We live in a post-Buffy world where the concept of the vampire has been done to death (pun intended, sorry).Trivun said:
There are good vampire stories that remain to be written, I'm sure, but writing any of them just now will get them lumped in with the rest. Many years ago I came up with a plot concept that was soon mirrored closely by Stargate. As a result I shelved it till I was sure it wasn't an avenue SG-1 weren't likely to walk down. If you want to be dismissed as fan fiction then go ahead and write. If you want to make an impact I would suggest writing something else first. Or writing this and not pursuing its publication for a while.
A writer writes. The publishing isn't the important bit.
And OT: I have just decided, oddly and coincidentally just before seeing this thread, to enter NaNoWriMo this year. I commend it to the forum.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
I wish. I have a story that I've been refining in my head for coming up on five years now. Only problem is I have zero experience in writing fiction.
I'm writing a book, which to really sum up, is about a bunch of former military and intelligence guys (and gals) get hired by a powerful entity acting through a free-lance arms dealer, to wipe out a Japanese Yakuza clan, for seemingly unknown (or rather unexplained) reasons. Think a John leCarre novel but with a lot more violence. I introduce one of my characters by having him beat a guy to death with a banjo.
I've been working on one for a while now. Part of it kind of won some form of contest a while back. It was a forty-page epic back then, and now I'm pleased to say that it has now reached eighty-page-epic status. And it's still nowhere near done...
Well, better to have too much than too little, or so I'm told, anyway.
Well, better to have too much than too little, or so I'm told, anyway.
Is that even possible? I would have thought they were too insubstantial. Garrotte him with the strings maybe.deadman91 said:
Trust, me you could do a lot of damage with a banjo. They're pretty solid, a lot more solid than guitars. He'd also strengthened it with a bit of creative welding and some steel.Tranka Verrane said:
But the whole reason he uses it is because people don't expect it to be used as a weapon, until he pulls it out of its case and smashes them in the face.
Yes, I have. My Junior year of high school I wrote a book. Actually I wrote book one of a series but, I doubt if I'll ever look at the poorly written mess again.
Yeah, working on a sci-fi, there are many things that still need to be decided or changed or properly edited but its coming at a good pace and should be published (if at all) before I finish high school. Yay for me.
I would like to write a book, I have it down as one of my long term goals to write a novel, but my problem is while I have many ideas in my head, I firstly don't have the time to sit down and write a long novel (and it would be long, my stories always seem to balloon to massively long creations) and my other problem is I'm embarrassed eventually by what I've written. In other words, I wouldn't want my friends or family to see what I've written because I'm scared they won't like it, so I never can complete one because of those facts. It'd be nice to though.
