How do you write a book?

[Brigid ✩]

sorry i don't work that way. XD

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

i write the story first, and then go back and fix it...but that's because i think about every single sentence extremely carefully before I wrote it down. I'm a very careful writer, and I write it very slowly. After I'm done thinking about the sentence, I chew it up and spit it out a few times before I write it.

[Riley]

I like doing group stories or joint stories. They're great practice for real stories.
Also, try writing a biography, or something, because then you don't need as much inspiration or imagination and it also is great practice.

[A.D.]

When I was attending panels at SF conventions, it became obvious to me that there is no single right way to write a book. I have written three with another additional two manuscripts. One author at the pannel answered with, "I don't know, I just write to find out what happens in my story," Some write complex outlines, others capture inspiration from other stories. For myself I get a concept of theme in my mind's eye and then figure out how the conflict is resolved.

Scribbles

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

I can't write a biography...mainly because I don't remember anything. But also 'cause i would bore myself.

[Brigid ✩]

i had to write an autobiography for english class last year. it sucked. lol. :P

[Riley]

lol. Just for us people who aren't naturally creative. XD

[T.O.L.I.]

yea! Things in random life inspire me to write like white walls, that originnally came from a paramore song!!!!! lol! Other things come to me from people, and ren u r right people are the oerfect things to base a novel off of, they are really different and crazy!

[Brigid ✩]

ooh i love when ideas come from songs ... for soul stealer i was partly inspired by that evanescence song, "bring me to life". i didn't really get the idea from it originally, but once i discovered that the song matched perfectly w/the story, it sort of helped my ideas flow a little more. it was awesome! ;D

[T.O.L.I.]

oh i know that song! the paramore song was fences for me

[Brigid ✩]

cool. uhhh i don't know that song. but ... cool. XD

[T.O.L.I.]

hehe

[Brigid ✩]

:D

[Riley]

yeah. Songs are great inspiration.

I also like watching CSI and other crime fighting shows, and it inspires me. Or reading about crazy people in the newspaper. XD

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

yeah i love when songs give you ideas!! i got the idea for outcast from "mother nature's son" by the beatles. that's how the idea first came to me, which is awesome XD

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

Hmm, I usually get ideas from random things that people say. Or from thoughts that cross my mind (I do a lot of thinking during mindless activities) and I recognize as great ideas.

[Riley]

I get a lot of ideas from goodreads

[Daisy]

Whatever you do while trying to concentrate DO NOT EAT CHOCLATE! I was concentrating really hard on a report for school, and then I had a bite of choclate and lost all of my concentration!

[Riley]

hahaha!

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

lol XD

[Daisy]

So rather than another paragraph I had another sentence.

[Riley]

XD

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

lol

[Paige]

♥Roni♥ wrote: "Well, when I first start writing, I have absoloutly no plan. Then, after a while, I suddenly have an idea and I weave it into the story, or I save it for later. I just have ideas as I go along of t..."

OMG THAT"S EXACTLY WHAT I DO!!!!!!!!

I'll have one idea, and then another, and instead of writing a new story, I try to incorporate it into what I'm currently writing. Often this means I write Ch. 2, then Ch. 1, then Ch. 4, etc.

AKS- to answer your question~

I have novels in the works, but I've only ever written short stories. So, truthfully, I have no idea. Even my two novels, one is about 5,000 words, the other less. I'm just beginning both of them. I think a great way to get rid of writers block is to just keep writing, even if it's complete crap. Then go back and fix it later.

So yeah, that's my take on it.

[Riley]

It's very strange for me. I describe a lot in my stories, but my chapters are still super short. My stuff doesn't do what I want it to do. If I have to do a short story for school, it turns out 20 pages long. If I want to do a novel, it's 4 pages long.

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

well then, you should try to write a novel for a short story and a short story for a novel!

[Daisy]

ITS LIKE THE PHANTOM TOOLBOOTH!!!!

[Riley]

...
Never mind. I'm tired of trying to track conversations on here.

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

Wow...this topic so soo old...lol. XD Now that I've read the first Maximum Ride, the MR talk is starting to make sense to me...lol!! XD

[Brigid ✩]

hahaha

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

Lol!

[Paige]

uuuuuuummmmmmm

HI!

That wasn't random or anything....

[[deleted user]]

not random at all.

[Paige]

I know, right? :D

[[deleted user]]

:D

[Riley]

:D

Sorry Paige, it's till not very natural for me to do that instead of XD.

[[deleted user]]

XD

[Riley]

aaaaaaaahhhhhh. XD

[Paige]

grrr....

[T.O.L.I.]

*D

[T.O.L.I.]

one eyed is better!!!

[[deleted user]]

well I guess so. . .

[T.O.L.I.]

YEAH!!

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

The one eyed is kind of annoying! It looks like a stared D!

This is my face ^-^

[T.O.L.I.]

*D

[T.O.L.I.]

one eyes is still my fave

[T.O.L.I.]

:?]

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

I figured that out ^-^

[T.O.L.I.]

or big nose smiley

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

lol