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I never over think anything because I have found that each section or scene that I write eventually connects itself. Like the section I wrote today connected itself with a section I wrote a few days ago and an idea I had last week. Had I actually tried to plot out each section and force a connection I doubt any of the pieces I wrote would flow smoothly together as they do now.
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It may sound strange to someone who is not a writer but my stories always write themselves. Of course during the editing part the pages literally bleed red but while I am writing I never truly know what is going to happen until I write it. Sure I have a basic idea for a story but generally the story writes itself and I am amazed when I read it how well it truly all worked out. I think its also werd how when I write the story I am in the mindset as the writer but when I read the story I have the mindset of a reader and literally have to stop myself and go, “wow, I wrote that.”
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It’s was so amazing the other day when I started writing. I had to look up a few things for my novel and usually researching something takes me hours to find because I have to got through pages without really finding what I’m looking for. That includes being as specific as possible. This time I immediately found everything I wanted right there in either the first or second entry. Amazing. That was definitely a good day.
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Just got The World of Wizards for the seventh day of Hannukah and I have to say that I truly have enjoyed it. I’ve been reading it every day and already have a segment for my novel (I’m in book 2 now) that I would not have otherwise had if I did not read the book. I am glad I got it. I went into C&W used books and thought as I always do that there must be a reason I am in here. I can honestly say it was to get that book.
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I never have a set ‘thing’ I do for when I write. I can be anywhere doing anything. One time I was brushing my teeth when the words came. Another time I was coming out a food store. that one really suppirsed me because it was a fight sceene. Who honestly thinks up a sword one-on-one fight after they’ve come out of a practaly diserted food store five days after new years? I guess only a write would.
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Sometimes I get regerts. I mean I know I was meant to be a writer but whenever I am asked what I do and I respond that I am a fiction writer they ask why I don’t have a real job. Then I begin to wonder if I should get a real job. Then my mind recycles back to my current novel and I end up writing another section for it. Then I’m left thinking if I wasn’t meant to write why would my mind work that way? Why would I come up with sections for my novel if my mind wasn’t hard wired to create stories?
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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) once said, “Things come to me in driblets and when the driblets come I have to work hard to make them into something coherent.” That is exactly how I write my novel. I would be doing something totally unrelated to writing and all of a sudden words start poping into my head. Then I have to rush to find a pen and paper to get it down before I lose them. Sometimes they flow into the last piece I have finished typing while other times they are for a later part in the novel. what always amases me is that each driblet I come up with no matter where it belongs in the novel always belongs to the current novel I am working on. I never think about another story, never get side tracked. I think that’s a good thing but it just gets me every time that these driblets always know the current work and only come when they belong to that particular story.
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I love reading my novels just as much as I enjoy writing them. I think that is the way it should be. I always write something that I would enjoy reading because I am writing for my kind of person. My mind always switches off when I read so when I read something that I have read I get blown away where I’m left thinking, “wow, I wrote that.” It’s really an awesome feeling. But then it’s like Alice Walker said, “If you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money or what will make fame.”
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I wonder, though, if there would be an internal conflict for a writer-- if what they wrote made a lot of money or became famous through writing. Would it lead to writer's block, since you'd feel you have to equal or surpass that success the next time?
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I always write when the words comes. That could be at any moment. I recall once I was brushing my teeth when i had to stop and grab some paper. I don't know how other writers do it but I have to keep a small pad and pen around me at all times. I can't ever force the words to come but when they do it's just like magic!
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I always read my work as a reader never as a writer. I have almost as much enjoyment at reading my work as I did writing it. Sometimes as I read it just blows my mind. I have to take a few steps back and say, "wow I wrote that."
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When I write if I get stumped, I write on a different document about what I wish my day would have been like then try to incorporate that into my original story. :thumbsup:
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I recently created an occult group that quotes religious text from their temple book. I decided to use the Book of Mormons as a reference for the quotations rather than going with the usually Bible quotes. What amazed me the most was whenever I needed a quote I simply opened the Book of Mormons and somewhere on the page I opened to was a quote I could use. Now if that’s not divine intervention I don’t know what is.
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I always read my work as a reader never as a writer. I have almost as much enjoyment at reading my work as I did writing it. Sometimes as I read it just blows my mind. I have to take a few steps back and say, "wow I wrote that."
I feel the same.Many times I read what I've written and feel a great satisfaction with it.Which is nice,since I can also be my own most severe critic.
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1 day ill write a novel
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It is so amazing when I actually write something and then it turns out later I was right on the mark. My novel is medieval time period piece and instead of calling someone stupid I use the term thick. Well I sat down to watch the BBC Merlin serious and in one episode Merlin actually refers to Arthur and his knights as thick (to mean stupid.) Of course I thought using the term thick to mean stupid was something I did. Meanwhile it was truly used in that way and I didn’t invent it. Not mad at all. Just happy I was right.
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Congrats on your work going so well, Michelle. Have you had anything published yet?
I've had newspaper columns published but no fiction. I'm working on something fictionally now. This is my 3rd novel attempt and the furthest I've gotten. I think it is because I am working from a sparse outline. The outline is giving me some bones to hang the story from.
How will you know you have reached the end if you don't know where you are going? If we want our work to be the best it can be, I think at some point everyone has to step back and read their work critically and then have others read it critically. Readers are notoriously critical. I know I am.
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i would love topublish my book of poems