Well, as of Monday, I decided I am going to start on my first novel. OK maybe not novel, but at least a 70 page story. I want to fill up a whole college rule notebook by the end of the school year.
I’m not trying to write some prophetic, life altering book.
Just a run of the mill murder mystery, but MY murder mystery.
It centers around the middle of three children, Leith Adamson, who is constantly over shawdowed by his older and younger brothers. He is at odds with his parents, and one night he and his step father get into a heated fight and Leith walks out. Living in the suburbs of Chicago, he ventures into the city to stay with a friend for the night. When the morning comes, his mother won’t answer her phone so he is forced to make the long journey home. When he returns to his house, he learns that his stepdad has been tortured and killed. Knowing his less than perfect record and his hatred for his stepfather, the police make Leith the main suspect. He now sets out to find the real killer, and along the way uncovers many lost skeletons that were in his stepdads closet. He has to find the real killer before time runs out!
Hahaha how’s THAT sound for a story?
Wish me Luck!
I mean I have an idea of where I want this to go, but as far as a long brainstorm/prewrite, no.
I have never really been into the whole planning thing, freestyle is my way of life.
Even though that will probably hurt me in the long run, I’m optimistic.
One of my friends wrote a novel last year, the parts I read were really good…as far as I know she hasn’t gotten around to getting it published yet though.
Good luck on yours!
I started writing this year and most days I could keep writing forever but need some sleep. Mine is more personal purposes though because it helps me clear my head and not try to remember details as much. So far I have written every night. We will see how far that goes though.
That’s what I have been doing for the better part of the past year.
I have writen nearly a whole notebook filled with poetry and songs/lyrics.
I never understood it when people said they vented to their notebook, and now if something happened to my notebooks, I would be totally lost!
It’s an outlet that I can control of and it’s totally up to me, I’m eternally grateful that I have gotten into it.
On monday I headed upstairs to right some stuff because I had a lot on my mind. Instead, I decided I would put my energy into a book.
I don’t know how far I’m gonna take it, but we’ll see, I suppose.
Anyone else here have any experience with longer writins of such; books, novels, short stories?
anything, share your experiences!
If he was gone at his friends house when his stepdad was murdered isn’t his friend and maybe his friend’s family pretty good evidence that it wasn’t him?
Last year we had to write in a journal in stupid honors english every period and she’d give us a topic and I would just write what she said and placed Chuck Norris in it every time. Then I wrote a short story w/ him in it. It was perty neat.
Every November, there’s an event called National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), during which participants try to complete 50,000 words (a shortish novel, about 175 pages). There’s some good camaraderie and local groups for meetings and support while writing. It’s fun. Not a substitute for what you’re planning (nor should you postpone your project), but if you ever thought you had a novel inside you waiting to get out, it’s a good way to give it a shot. Plus, it will give you a good dose of humble pie (if you’re like me, anyway), as you may discover that this writing thing is a lot harder than it seems.
school camp happens james(the protagonist) kill some unknown beast in the most awsome way ,blood/fluides stuff like that goes all over him he blacks out and wakes up in a big sterile facility , he was under quarantine ,when he gets out strange thigs happen around him like ,stuff spontaniously exploding(tea cups ,cubby houses) people faint around him ,to what seems to be a random scheduale it chronicles his realisation that he is no longer james and that he is something else , yeah i working through ,I know its a bit cliche but cmon im writeing a funking novel
Nobody uses cliches because other will say ‘that is cliche’. This means not using a cliche is cliche in itself so we shouldnt worry about what we do cliche or not because in the end it all is.
Anyways yeah I write a good bit. Does help with clearing the brain out.
I’ve been considering writing a little novel…though if I wrote one, it’d probably be emulating the style of one of my favorite series ever, the Coldfire Trilogy…not so much the sci-fi aspect, but definitely a big fantasy thing, but with a dark undertone (pouring rain, dark alleys, spies and backstabbers kinda thing).
Me personally - I hate reading about stuff that could happen in real life, so I don’t like writing about it. Books are for imaginary events; make it fantastical!
OHHHH Leith only wishes it would be that easy, but his friend that he stays with, is also a known drug dealer. By a strange twist of events he nearly gets busted the same day all of this happens and he skips town, never to be heard from again.
haha once i wrote it in there i was forced to think of somthing.
which was my first realization that i probably should have made a prewrite.
so at the time, yes, i made it up on the spot.
I would really like to write a story of a grander scale sooner or later.
I wrote a short one a while back about a dream I had where me and all my friends had super powers. It wasn’t great, but all my friends who were in it loved reading it.
Writing is such a good vent for stress, happiness… anything.
When you transfer it to computer for editing/getting it published (assuming you’re going to try that), MAKE BACKUPS!!! I’ve been assembling a collection of original poems for publishing, had the layout about 75% done, and my hard drive died… Ironically, the drive died 2 days before I was going to do my backup I only lost one poem and the layout, everything else I still had on a 4 month old backup…
I only lost one poem and the layout, everything else I still had on a 4 month old backup…