Question: Tips on Writing a book!?
I love to write, and I think I have good ideas, it's just that whenever I start I'm really excited, and I'm getting into it, and then after the first chapter I run out of steam!. Most of the time, I know what I want to happen, and how it will happen, I just get tired of writing about the same thing!. I never stay on topic, and end up giving up!. I've tried writing one thing going to another, and then going back to the first one, but I still can't get back into "the groove" =), and it's starting to bother me!.!.!.
And I've really tried, but I can't focus on Anything for a long time!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
You need to plan out your story!. Have an ideal of what going to happen in the beginning middle and end!. Jot down ideals as the come to you!. You don't necessarily have to write the story in order!. Make sure you've properly developed each of your characters!. also Just take some time and write down every ideal that pop's into your head about the story!. Just write don't worry about spelling or anything just write, you can always revise and edit later!. The point is to just finish your story!. also I would read some books on the subject!. So really good books I've read are:
Bird by Bird
See Jane write
Will write for shoes
On writing
The gremlins of grammar
How Not to Write: An Office Primer for the Gramatically Perplexed
If you don't have the money to buy all of these books you can always try checking them out at the library also there are a lot of writing tips online!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
On a paper, write down all the events you want to write about in your story!. Be descriptive; it helps fill the pages and give the readers an insight to the story!. This happens to me all the time!. Sometimes an idea seems awesome when you come up with it, and when you start writing, it just doesn't work out!. But you just can't give up!. Keep writing through the stories, make them exciting and relatable!. Escape into the world, and just forget about everything around you!. That's what I do, and I feel like I'm actually witnessing everything that I'm writing about!. Good luck :)Www@QuestionHome@Com
You can just get a few notebooks and just write the scenes in the book you think are the most exciting and important!. Get enough scenes and link them and there's your book!.
I have the same problem sometimes!. I currently have around fifteen to twenty seperate books I work on at my leisure!. Whatever I feel like working on I do!. I don't always stick to one book but when I do it usually gets far before I run out of steam!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) It's a time to turn off that "inner editor" and write anything down!. You can visit their website, www!.nanowrimo!.org for more information!. It seems like a great way to get you writing!Www@QuestionHome@Com
try writing a book about people telling stories!. find a plot about something like that so you dont have to stay on topic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Your story should be dynamic!. You write about one thing, that thing has an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution: that thing is just one scene! after that scene things move on, something changes, the course of the rest of your story is altered!. So maybe I'm being dramatic but it does mean you're working on something where things are changing!.
I find it helps to spend some time setting down a structure for my story!. I'll spend a paragraph right in the middle of my first draft talking about what I want to accomplish in a particular scene!. I didn't do this for the last thing I tried to write!. I had over 100,000 words but no coherent plotline so I sorta, just!.!.!. gave up!. I wrote this scene and that scene and jumped around but it wasn't very linear!. The thing I'm working on now only has 16k words but its pretty cohesive and has better structure and better direction!. I find that structure and planned direction really help!. Writing is inspiration of getting everything down for the first time, but it's mostly making revisions and adding layers to what tou already had!.Www@QuestionHome@Com