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Aminar:
Hit 100K words today on page 266. Which is exactly 2/3 of the planned page and word count. WIN!
USMCWolf:
Hello my name is Pfc Clem(or Alex if you want to be normal) and my writing career is much like a broken jet.....it looks pretty but hasnt gone anywhere. I have only written papers and short stories so far nothing published! But that would be due to lack of trying or any trying whatsoever and also due to pure ignorance.....I have NO IDEA how to get started. I am a big fan of scifi/fantasy. I read more books in a week than most in a month i read ALL the dresden files in about two weeks and was instantly in love. Sure i may have no life but hey they will surely go on discount some day. My big conundrum(lovely word that) is how do i get started? Please throw me a lifeline or just throw a club at my head so i will drown quietly! Any help is appreciated!!!!
Snowleopard:
Hey USMCWolf - boy is that a mouthful or would that be typeful. ;D
Anyway, I'm afraid that the best way to get started is to just sit down, and as one author says - "get black on white." Put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard.
Have you a type of Science Fiction or Fantasy that you like? (Well, beyond the Dresden Files. ;D)
Have you an idea for a story or an idea for a protagonist? Sit down and just start noodling out
things about your plot or your character's history.
You could always set yourself a writing exercise. Like - character A is stuck in a stranded mars crawler - how does he/she get out of that situation or does he/she. Ask a friend for a writing exercise.
If getting started is really a big bugaboo for you - look for a writing group or a writing class near you.
Having someone to cheer you on or having to do an assignment might help get things rolling.
I hope that's of some help and good luck.
jeno:
http://www.marthawells.com/writingguide.htm
^That's a good resource for beginning writers who are thinking about breaking into publishing.
But as for writing...it's the Ass in Chair method that will get you a novel. Brainstorm until you come up with an idea you love, then park your rear in your chair and see where your idea takes you. There's a popular saying that your first mumbletythousand words will be crap, which is true, so just keep plugging away and eventually you'll get to the good stuff. (another rule of thumb - your first draft is NEVER good. revise, revise, revise.)
cenwolfgirl:
Hi my name is CHarlotte an i just finished wrighting my first draft of my first fantercy novle out side of school projects.
I have been working on it for nearly two years and i have never done anything like this but. I'm alowing one of my friends to read it. She got me back in to reading fantercy but I'm kind of sceared as I am very new at this and not quite shore if its any good.
Maybe one day I'll have it compleatly finished and will try and get it published.
But I don't know.
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