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I am, therefore I write
meg_evonne:
Okay, so I'm taking this class. Yep, you all just groaned. Here's the thing, it's an internet novel class which has been helpful in forcing me to get those pages done weekly. Last week someone was talking about how first novels are usually autobiographical. I was floored. Not because this isn't something you hear all the time. I was floored because the simple majority of these people were literally working on their first novels.
Writing for me is compulsive. I'm driven to write and have since grade school. My damn computer is chock full of stuff, some of it crappy (okay a lot of it crappy) but the last few years there is some pretty good stuff in there. I consider that I left my "first" novel in the dust, published or not, years and years ago.
I checked with my office manager, who holds a Masters in English, and she has a computer stuffed. So I'm curious and thus the poll.
These classmembers are professionals in the writing field, mainly editors etc and I think most of them are in their 40's or later... and they are just now writing a first novel? Am I the wierd one out there?
It really is a great class....
Yeratel:
So far I've resisted the temptation to get started on a novel. My patience level is more of the article and short story variety.
Tasmin21:
None completed, but I feel obligated to point out that I'm currently working on two (simultaneously) and that I have four completed in my distant past. (talking high school/early college, and not fit for private consumption, much less public)
meg_evonne:
I'm counting "shitty first drafts" as completed... :) thanks for the input
Kiriath:
Much much stuff that I don't want to think too much about; I say they're "shelved" but they all suck.
The newer stuff, I have 1 40K contemporary fantasy novella, 1 100K fantasy novel, 1 90K science fiction novel, and I'm working on a 80-90K novel, of, I like to think, increasing quality.
I'm planning on writing a 50K Nano in November and another 90-100K novel this year. ;)
... It sounds like a lot when I say it that way. It isn't, really. :o
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