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How to write a book
It made me
Fantastic
 "Brilliant, I love reading but writing is better"
How I did it: You need a great idea first then you need a writing plan that is realistic. Decide how many words you want in your book (a novel is 50,000) there will be roughly 400 a page. So check how long a page will take you and you can figure out the time needed. Most of all you need to be motivated to write, if you don't enjoy the process you will probably give up. If you do you will make the time to do it. Lessons & tips: Get someone close to you who will be brutaly honest to critique your work. Its no good people being nice if you can't write (unless you are just doing this for fun). But choose a genre they like, its also no good asking your partner to critique SciFi if she never reads it. I deliberately chose a genre my wife liked for this purpose. Don't rely on a vanity publisher to critique your work but normal publishers should be fine. There's nothing wrong with vanity publishing just don't rely on them for that. Resources: If you want to write with others their is a collaborative book project where all the writers will share the royalties. That's good because you can share ideas and the workload is less. Not a bad idea for the first published work to get you started. All done online. www.amazonclicks.com for details. Look for 'The Book' press release. Don't worry too much about typos, crack on with the story, your editor will sort all that out. Good luck!
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How I did it: I was 6 years old, I was in primary school, I wrote about a girl; who had a fairy as a friend. I was so much younger than today but it counts! :D cuz' I needed 5 months to write it.The character name is: Jade Wilson.How old is she now: 11 years old.How many story's I wrote about her: 4 She was called Jade Wilson (that's the name that my mother wanted for me but when I was born people think that wasn't a good name) she was intelligen… Read how I did it…
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i think that there is a book in me waiting to be written
but i have been thinking that for years now …
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tucsontess is at work!
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I’ve always wanted to write a fantasy type story involving space travelers.
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I just didn’t give up. When I wondered who would read my book and what the point was, I visualized someone finding my book and feeling relieved because it solved their pressing problem.
When I took breaks in writing, I would pick up again where I left off. I also hired an editor, which forced me to finish because I had already put money down and didn’t want to waste it. Having other people keep you accountable, like an editor, is important.
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My goal is to complete my first book by December 2009. It will be 96 pages and is geared to teachers.
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This morning I woke up with a story in my head, so I started writing it down. I just really hope I’ll stay motivated with it and finish the story! :)
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I want to write a book about all the ordinary things in life that we take for granted and don’t even notice anymore.
I think it is so interesting to take these things which are right under our noses every day and examine them closely.
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Whenever I go to someone’s page to repay a cheer, I usually review their list of goals to see which ones interest me the most, and perhaps see if there are any I would like to adopt. Probably at least half the people have “write a book” listed as one of their goals. I just think that is so cool, like everybody wants to tell their story and be heard. I really hope that one day I actually go through with this. I don’t know what my book will be about though, if it will be fiction or perhaps an auto-biography… but I hope it will be good. :)
Leslie Rae lezzzz uhhh leeee
clean clea clean.
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i organized all my shelfs.
all my books.
everything that would be included in my book.
so.
thats going pretty well.
its a start.
ha though i have been saying that for years now.
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As of last sometime last week(I didn’t keep track of the exact date) I feel I’ve finished jotting down all my notes for my storyline. So now I just need to type it all up and expand on all the notes.
If your interested, they only take up bout 5 pages, but I wrote them very tiny so it’d all fit. So I hope that typing it will expand it to several hundred pages.
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alligat0r asks,
“How can I make this my living? It's so hard to break into this business; to become a well-know, respected author. It's the only thing I truly want to do with my life, but what if I can't do it? What kinds of things could I fall back on?”
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Soznani asks,
“My writing style is "choppy" and "wooden." I can't seem to write well. I have so many ideas but I just can't get them out of my head and onto the page in a way that is readable. How can I improve my writing style?”
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someonehurting asks,
“hi to you all i have started to write a book but i jkust wanted some advise on how to set it out like i know it has to have a plot for start middle and finish but how do you know where to go from that”
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brownsugarbear01 asks,
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