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Author In Progress
Noey:
The Cap'n And CGL...sounds like a band, doesn't it? I am SO holding up a lighter at the book signing! *beams* Can't wait to see your stuff published so I can read it. :)
Uilos:
Gratz Captain and CGL!
I'm still in the midst of working on my novel/trilogy. I'm still building the foundation for it, slowly adding more depth.
Danny-boy:
well...all my life I have sort of thought of myself as a writer - though I have written very little of any real quality.
I am always the guy with the great ideas but who lacks the moxie to follow through and actually create something of it. (I mean...I shouldn't say that...because I do other things...play music...paint...make various other types of art - it's just a matter of different degrees of inspiration or something)
But now I am about to turn 40 in a few months, and I have really been making a project of getting off my ass and doing some of the things I have wanted to do in the past. So this has me really wanting to take another hack at writing.
I have ideas for two sci-fi novels and a series based around a what I think is a pretty unique character - I am not sure how to classify those, genre-wise.
I have been reading Jim's LiveJournal and that has helped a lot. I had no idea, in the past how to plan out a story before writing it - I just figured I'd sit down and write x-amount each day and it would just end up being a coherent story. Never too old to learn the right way to do stuff.
So yup...that's where I'm at. Oh...and I am new to this forum too, as you might have guessed.
-Danny-boy
Uilos:
--- Quote from: Danny-boy on December 27, 2008, 04:36:49 AM ---well...all my life I have sort of thought of myself as a writer - though I have written very little of any real quality.
I am always the guy with the great ideas but who lacks the moxie to follow through and actually create something of it. (I mean...I shouldn't say that...because I do other things...play music...paint...make various other types of art - it's just a matter of different degrees of inspiration or something)
But now I am about to turn 40 in a few months, and I have really been making a project of getting off my ass and doing some of the things I have wanted to do in the past. So this has me really wanting to take another hack at writing.
I have ideas for two sci-fi novels and a series based around a what I think is a pretty unique character - I am not sure how to classify those, genre-wise.
I have been reading Jim's LiveJournal and that has helped a lot. I had no idea, in the past how to plan out a story before writing it - I just figured I'd sit down and write x-amount each day and it would just end up being a coherent story. Never too old to learn the right way to do stuff.
So yup...that's where I'm at. Oh...and I am new to this forum too, as you might have guessed.
-Danny-boy
--- End quote ---
Welcome to the Party, Dan. You're amongst friends here.
Personally, I use Stephen King's Method, which is to say I have a good idea in my head and I just go for it on the page. Although I have been using Jim's method to help establish the world
Lisa™:
Welcome, Dan. I'm inclined the same way - planning out a story before writing it never really caught on for me as a workable technique. I just throw words at the page and whatever sticks is what I edit later. :D
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