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- January 17th, 2010, 10:55 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: how many projects do you work on at a time?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6025
Re: how many projects do you work on at a time?
Okay. This is something I have intimate knowledge of. I've written since I was maybe 7 years old. That's over 21 years of writing. I always had more than one project going. I've only recently started to take it seriously. So, when I begun my first novel, and then got another idea, I naturally said &...
- January 17th, 2010, 10:48 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: the drawer novel
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6332
Re: the drawer novel
Okay, so I think I have a unique opinion on this... My first novel, along with what is technically my second, are out on submission right now. (Everyone please cross fingers, toes, and any other appendages they feel appropriate. Thank you.) The thing is, that first one - the one I thought was comple...
- January 1st, 2010, 2:15 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writer's Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15099
Re: Writer's Block
My problem, when it comes to writers block, isn't content. I know my story. It's like a movie that plays over and over in my head. But sometimes when I go to write it out, I freeze. Writer's block get hold of me when I am trying to find the best way to tell the story using the most effective wordin...
- December 31st, 2009, 12:55 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Suggest a book for me, please!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4480
Re: Suggest a book for me, please!
Okay, these are not fantastic, but they do have voice and can be funny. They're not paranormal, either, but they are fantasy. I really enjoyed Jonathan Stroud's Bartimous series in terms of Bartimous' voice. Well done I thought. I had some issues with the books otherwise. Note: I'm misspelling Bart...
- December 31st, 2009, 8:29 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Suggest a book for me, please!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4480
Re: Suggest a book for me, please!
if you can stand reading about south Florida, I would recommend Carl Hiaasen - he's funny. I especially liked his book Native Tongue - it's an oldie but a goodie... I like most of his books - he's like Chris Moore, but instead of calling on the supernatural he normally sticks to funny, but human an...
- December 31st, 2009, 7:42 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Suggest a book for me, please!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4480
Suggest a book for me, please!
Okay, so I'm going through a rough patch in my own work, and I need some inspiration. Unfortunately, I have no idea what to buy to get me back in my "Wow, I love this! I love writing! I love writing like this!" mind-set. So, could you guys please help me out with suggesting some books for ...
- December 23rd, 2009, 12:45 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writer's Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15099
Re: Writer's Block
My problem, when it comes to writers block, isn't content. I know my story. It's like a movie that plays over and over in my head. But sometimes when I go to write it out, I freeze. Writer's block get hold of me when I am trying to find the best way to tell the story using the most effective wordin...
- December 23rd, 2009, 5:27 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writing. What's your favorite part? Your Hardest Lesson?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18416
Re: Writing. What's your favorite part? Your Hardest Lesson?
My favorite thing about writing comes in anywhere from a half hour to two hours to four hours into a session, when I'm absorbed in what I'm creating - when I know what I'm putting down is really good stuff and it just excites me to go on for hours and hours more. (Of course, life will usually interr...
- December 23rd, 2009, 5:21 am
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: So...Star Wars or Star Trek?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21813
Re: So...Star Wars or Star Trek?
I'm a Star Wars nerd from way back. In fact, Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn was the first non-YA novel I ever read. I don't remember how old I was, but I was young. I've read a ton since, which is saying something since most of them are terrible books. (And that whole New Jedi Order series didn'...
- December 23rd, 2009, 1:04 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writer's Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15099
Re: Writer's Block
I have a feeling that Writer's Block doesn't exist. Which is not to say that writers don't get blogged... but just that writers get blocked for thousands of different reasons, both personal and technical. But we like to clump things together. It all goes into "Writer's Block", and ol' WB ...
- December 22nd, 2009, 10:16 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writer's Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15099
Re: Writer's Block
[quote= I try to do that too, actually. And what scene couldn't be improved in any book at any time by making a car explode? It sure would liven up all those books we were forced to read in college and high school. (The Pearl comes to mind, which I had to read in 8th grade, I think. "I've lost ...
- December 22nd, 2009, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Something I have discovered, how about you...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6937
Re: Something I have discovered, how about you...
When I first decided to pick writing back up (after a tryst with the music industry/drugs and partying), my amazingly awesometacular fantasmorgsmic fiance bought me Stephen King's On Writing. He definitely preaches writing out of the mist or in the mist or whatever the saying was. So that's what I t...
- December 22nd, 2009, 9:29 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writer's Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15099
Re: Writer's Block
I try not to call it writer's block. It sounds too much like a disease or something. I just say, "I'm having a hard writing day." That way, it seems much more temporary, because (at least to me) it implies that tomorrow stands a good chance of being better. Also, if I'm having a hard time...
- December 22nd, 2009, 5:25 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Writer's Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15099
Writer's Block
Writer's block. We all know it. We all fear it. We all get it. Or, at least, most of us do. I think. Actually, that's what this thread is about. Those of us that don't get writer's block: what is your secret? Those that do? How do you deal with it? (I am currently experiencing a bout, if you couldn'...
- December 22nd, 2009, 4:38 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Is doubt part of the process?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4759
Re: Is doubt part of the process?
Obviously, doubt happens to all of us. As far as my critique/brainstorm partner and I go, we go between periods of thinking "everything I write is shit, how did I ever think I could call myself an author?" to periods of "I'm so excited, this stuff is great! I'm so glad I'm an author!&...