Sunday, December 27, 2009

Can you offer advice to a novice writer?

i have been writing for a few years now, i have started four different novels, one about christmas, another about global warming, another about dreams and a final one about a kidnapping (its a comedy).





my question to you all is can you offer me advice on what i should do to finish these stories, i keep jumping backwards and forwards between all four books, i want to finish one and get it published but i have just too many ideas, what do i do?Can you offer advice to a novice writer?
I have the same problem when it comes to writing music. You start one thing, then along comes another brilliant thought that is impassible. So you begin developing the new concept, and that leads you to ANOTHER idea that you just have to start working on. (So on and so forth) etc. etc. until it all becomes one big dark cloud of confusion.


But what I've begun to do is simply prioritize. Do what is most fitting for that time, and whenever that light bulb turns on and tries to pull you away from your current project. DONT LET IT! But dont forget it either. Write it down, and save it for future work.





Hope this can somewhat help. Good luck, and shoot me a copy of your novel when its finished!Can you offer advice to a novice writer?
Simply make up your mind, to which one, and finish that first, if you don`t you will find you will loose the plot and your novels will never get completed. I know tried to do exactly the same with things and never realy completed any, as the years rolled by, other things took their place. Good Luck with it anyway.
In my opinion, this is what you should do. Go to the park. Sit on a bench alone. Watch the people and the kids and animals for about an hour. Ponder what you are seeing. The joy, stupidity, inane antics, people trying but going nowhere. Think about how your life could be so much better. Don't leave yet, sit there and ask yourself, do I really want to finish one of these four books or how about if I combine them all and make one book that uses everything from these books in one that has multiple plots and only one ending. If you decide to do that all is well. If you decide not to do that but finish any one of the other books, then all is well. Don't beat yourself up because you have so many ideas running around in your head. Make a planner, figure out how to spend 'x' amount of time with each book. Then do it.
Write down your ideas, and pick one book and finish the darn thing. What does it take for you to decide what you're asking us to do for you.





Your the writer. Just do it.





I hope you don't really think it's that easy to get professionally published. You can get your book online and even printed extremely easy. Getting it professionally published and distributed is something totally different.





Good luck.
Put three away, exercise self-control and work on just one at a time. Choose what you like most right now to start... then outline your continuing ideas, and after you've written a rough draft:





Re-write, re-write, re-write.





(obviously i do...!)
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