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 Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:13 pm
Yes, dear. Thread is another term for "topic".
-LD
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:15 am
Leavaros I think everyone is attached to their first true story. I know I am. KiyoKyo, Tommy? What about you guys? You've written way more than me. You're input here might be more worthwhile than mine. Love and Vale, -Leavaros My first "book" is 48 chapters, including the prologue and epilogue, and needs SERIOUS revision and rewriting before I can even consider publishing it. But I still love it so much, and the characters are so important to me because they were the first characters I created that didn't fall under the category of "Mary-Sue." So yeah, my first real story is still something I'm deeply in love with.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:14 am
I know what you mean Tommy, my first is 29 chapters, but me thinks that is too short, I believes its only 60k+ words and is rougher than stubble, not to mention grossly splotchy. I love all my characters so much, each has a long and personal history and have a real sort of humanity to them.
First books are, I think, the most important. They form the foundation for future projects, plus, its always fun to throw old characters into new stories.
the Lion
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:48 pm
I've written a book-length story, but I have yet to revise it, and believe me, it needs a LOT of work! xp
Spread over 3 compostition notebooks, it's 387 pages. I began it in October 2003 and finished it approximately 3 years later - normorally I'm extremely slow at stories and rarely finish them, but this one only made it b/c I made myself write something in it every day. I love this story so much and put so much into it, but it has a long way to go before it can really be a publishable book.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:12 pm
newly redoing my new book and now a comepletely new plot i will now be trying to post it in my journal. those who would like to read it please pm me and give me advice and please tell me if i need to ad anything or taking anything out of it.
i need things to add
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:11 am
I love the book I'm writing at the moment. the first "book" i wrote was a small story and my sister 3Trewen had given me the character names. Then i read another book and realised how similiar the names were. Also my main character was a mary sue...
Anyhow the book I'm writing now has been re-written 3 times already. I'm finally happy with the version i'm writing now.
I think the most important part of book is the begginning. after all, if someone picks up a book in a store, they read the blurb (I wrote my own) and if they like it the read the first few lines. Or at least I do.
Am I rambling?
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:50 pm
Tommy Cullen Leavaros I think everyone is attached to their first true story. I know I am. KiyoKyo, Tommy? What about you guys? You've written way more than me. You're input here might be more worthwhile than mine. Love and Vale, -Leavaros My first "book" is 48 chapters, including the prologue and epilogue, and needs SERIOUS revision and rewriting before I can even consider publishing it. But I still love it so much, and the characters are so important to me because they were the first characters I created that didn't fall under the category of "Mary-Sue." So yeah, my first real story is still something I'm deeply in love with. That's with me, too. The series that I'm writing is the first one I've ever written. I reread my seventh grade notebook that I first wrote it in.....and it sounded like a five-year-old wrote it. But now, I've revised it so much, that I've even improved my overall vocab! But for me, my series is the only thing I ever daydream about...I can't help it; I get bored so easily. Hell, I even daydream myself to sleep! Yeah, that's how much I'm in love with my series..... If you want to read my frist book...go to the thread labeled "Anybody want to read my fantasy series?" I'm trying to get as many people to criticize it and help me edit it as I can.....
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:29 pm
im always attempting to write a book. or at least get through a story. most of my stories end up as rampant violence or end up talking about something totally off topic. i also have trouble keeping concentrated.
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:31 pm
I've written stories, but not books, like. I'm writing one, it's 187 pages or somewhat and I like it. I'm working on another I want published.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:33 pm
I wrote a book in seventh grade. I'm in ninth now. It was a short novel, consisting of about 40,000 words. My dad, being the lawyer that he is, decided to drag me to Washington D.C. twice(it was closed the first time do to construction.) to get it copyrighted. I was in D.C. yesterday, actually.
It's called Silent Tears, and it's about a girl named Stevie who is in a psychiatric hospital for attempting suicide. It's based some what on personal experiences, at least, the hospital part was, not the underlying issues. I actually don't even like the name Stevie. I did for a day. If anyone has ever read the Saddle Club series, I was thinking about that when I named her.
When I finished, I broke it into chapters. I guess I wasn't paying attention or something, because I somehow wound up with two chapter nines... There's now two chapter sixteens, because that's how far I got when I was fixing it. I got bored, and had better things to write.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:49 pm
Leavaros I think everyone is attached to their first true story. I know I am. KiyoKyo, Tommy? What about you guys? You've written way more than me. You're input here might be more worthwhile than mine. Love and Vale, -Leavaros I guess I've written several books--they're on sale from my website, after all, and sold at conventions and exhibitions my anime club hosts. I'm really tough on myself for quality, and would probably have produced books alot earlier, except that I never had means to get them looking good. Lulu.com helped me alot with that. They're a really great company. The first book-length story I wrote was about 80 handwritten pages in 7th grade. I don't remember all the details of it, so I guess it doesn't have that special place in my heart that some first works do. Of course, since I'd been writing comics seriously since 5th grade, those might count as my first "books". I still remember the details of all the characters and highlights of my first comics. I'm a Senior in college now, BTW. That adds up to about 10 years of serious writing/drawing, having started in 5th.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:13 pm
Wow.... You're only four years older than me.... Huh.
-LD
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:57 am
I'm now practising my writing skill before write a book, I just going to write short stories and trying to show it on the newspaper to have some comments.But I really like to write a book, a fantasy one ^^
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:03 pm
I'm working on a story and have about 15 chapters on it right now. But I keep going back and revising it, changing entire pages at a time. I have a couple poems on poetry.com that only took about a day each to get on paper. I took another day to polish them up a bit before putting them up. My story's been taking shape over a period of...probably 8 or 9 years. My characters don't really seem very original after reading Terry Goodkind, Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey, and the like, but maybe that's just me. Oh, if you want to read my poems, go to poetry.com and search melissa denise hicks. They're there. Let me know what you think? I'll have to get my journal working right again before I can put a description of my story characters up and I hope to get some feedback on them too.
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