Thinking of Writing a Novel
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You should go for it, try to market it as an unauthorized autobiography...
actually all jokes aside, perhaps start by writing short stories of some events and then after you are getting " noticed " try shopping a full book to a reputable publishing agent. Other than that, I wish you the very best of luck
I don't get it. Educate me?Well, as I said several times in this thread, including the OP, I have no interest in writing about myself
Check out the titles linked under "My Books" on this page. (See: You don't want people thinking that this is the sort of thing that goes on in your head.
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^I am educated! And, I love you, RJ!
Enough to share a nom de plume?
Indeed.Check out the titles linked under "My Books" on this page. (See: You don't want people thinking that this is the sort of thing that goes on in your head.
Please make sure my character has clean underpants on all the time. I would hate to be in an accident and have the ambulance people discovere defacation in my boxers.
Now I've really got a problem. Another story has formed in my head, entirely different and totally separate to the one I've started. What's more, this is more clear than the last. My first idea came to me like a jigsaw puzzle in a box; all the pieces are there and I can see the completed picture in all its complexity, but I've got to figure out how to put the pieces together. And, as it goes with jigsaw puzzles, I've got a solid corner completed as well as bits of the outline and random chunks here and there. This new story, though...it's come to me like a chain, and I can see each link in the chain and how it connects to the next, from beginning to end, all in order. I couldn't help myself and I wrote the first chapter (2000 words) as well as the title of each subsequent chapter and a summary of each.
Is it a terrible idea to be working on two novels at once?
Is it a terrible idea to be working on two novels at once?
No, it's a great idea to have more than one project going at the same time. Then if you're not in the mood to work on one, you'll be in the mood to work on another.
^I'm afraid the television is already influencing my subconscious enough -- the first novel is about a serial killer, and the second one has a subplot involving an arsonist. It's all these damned crime dramas!
I hope it's the crime dramas... 
Yeah, it actually is. But I see the humor in it.
Actually, when I summed up the idea of the second novel to my little sister as, "It's about a half Indian girl genius with a schizophrenic mother and an alcoholic father," she replied, "Wow, draw from your personal life much?"But hey, you know what they say. Write what you know!
Why don't you mix them up a bit. Throw in the second novel as a secondary story to confuse the reader and make them not see the ending coming.
^Nah, they're both too complex for that. Besides the first one already has the twist of possibly being interpreted as either a paranoid delusion or a science fiction adventure.
The second, I'm almost ashamed to say, is totally YA, and so it would be completely inappropriate to mix with the first which already has a violent bank robbery, a murderer who confuses sex with garroting his victims, and a golden shower.
I am enjoying the fact that writing teenagers isn't really all that different from writing sociopathic serial killers.
The second, I'm almost ashamed to say, is totally YA, and so it would be completely inappropriate to mix with the first which already has a violent bank robbery, a murderer who confuses sex with garroting his victims, and a golden shower.
I am enjoying the fact that writing teenagers isn't really all that different from writing sociopathic serial killers.
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I like where this story is going! On a side note, I wish you the best of luck, TSQ. By now, the internet and television have destroyed my ability to coalesce continuous, linear thought into the written word, and the stamina to make it anywhere approaching book length.
But that's exactly what teenagers want to read about.
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She needs to make at least one reference to Justin Bieber. That will get her book on the NYT Bestseller list. I'd buy a copy for sure! ...um... for my niece.
