lol - excuse my saying so, but you don't sound very satisfied now. Writing the ideas out, even if you don't flesh them out into full stories,...
I got lucky. When i finished my novel I couldn't stand to look at it again for about 3 months. Just opening the file, I would see a few words, and...
If that is what you feel your story needs, then run with it. try it. see if it works. if it doesn't, trash it. A lot of writing is instinctual....
This is when you need to stop and ask yourself whether you want to finish the book or move on. This happened to me only once during my last novel,...
It happens to me too at about the same point in every story. Normally it's because my subconcious is telling me there is a problem with the plot....
word count is number of words in the novel. Every publisher sets word counts for their submissions, to give authors a guideline for how big they...
because the author has answers and simply forgot to write them down? Sometimes as a writer, I think I have written something in when I actually...
I don't tend to work well that way. Personally, I am motivated by a good story... once I think up a good plot for it, the excitement will carry me...
Okay, to clarify, I read Cog's post, where he defined three things: So what I guess I am saying is I have some plots, and some things...
From everything I have read, the beginning seems to be the hardest for some people. I have read many suggestions - one is to read, another is to...
Just started book two, and I have down what everyone decides to do after the end of book one... but a series of events does not a plot make. It...
There is no one part I like best- as in beginning middle or ending... it is the formulation of ideas. Okay, not precisely forming them, but it is...
Just a question, maybe rhetorical - why would you want to wind down? Why would you want to step away from your story? Do you dislike it? I...
You can't guess accurately how long the book will be until you are finished with it. Who knows what else you might think up along the way, or want...
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