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SciFiWriter · 11-01-2014, 02:31 PM

Crich,

I must be very different. I wrote my first novel by sitting down at the PC, firing up MS Word, and just plain typing it. Yeah, ok. I maybe did some rewrite here and there as the spirit moved me. I did some thinking about it as I went along, but I never even once wrote a single page of outline. I turned out to run 90,000 words plus.

I just this February was in a very bad car accident. Hit by a drunk driver. I wrote a whole short 60,000 word novel in six weeks on a request from an editor. While she reviewed that one, I wrote the second novel in that series in yet another six weeks.

So what am I trying to say? If the novel is in there, it will come out of you. When I am writing, I am a crazy man. I eat, sleep, and crap the story. If I am away from my keyboard the story makes my hair stand right out.

I am trying to inspire you, man. Don't waste time. Sit down and start writing. Write crap if you have to but get started. Write what moves you. You don't have to start at the beginning. Start with a scene that is so damned vivid you can't get it out of your head and write the ass off that scene. It's all digital! You can always go back and revise it. The more you write, the better you will become, so write! Do what's in your heart! Write! Don't plan. Write.

Now for the rest of the story... once you are already writing the story, you will know what is wrong with it. THAT is when you get help, get a book, maybe even write an outline to keep you on the story line. But, if you are not writing, you don't even know what you don't know.

In case you can't tell, I am very passionate about my writing. That is how you need to feel about it. If you do, you will love every moment doing it.

11-01-2014, 02:31 PM	#21
SciFiWriter SciFi-natic Posts: 48 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2014 Device: Samsung Tab 4 7"	Crich, I must be very different. I wrote my first novel by sitting down at the PC, firing up MS Word, and just plain typing it. Yeah, ok. I maybe did some rewrite here and there as the spirit moved me. I did some thinking about it as I went along, but I never even once wrote a single page of outline. I turned out to run 90,000 words plus. I just this February was in a very bad car accident. Hit by a drunk driver. I wrote a whole short 60,000 word novel in six weeks on a request from an editor. While she reviewed that one, I wrote the second novel in that series in yet another six weeks. So what am I trying to say? If the novel is in there, it will come out of you. When I am writing, I am a crazy man. I eat, sleep, and crap the story. If I am away from my keyboard the story makes my hair stand right out. I am trying to inspire you, man. Don't waste time. Sit down and start writing. Write crap if you have to but get started. Write what moves you. You don't have to start at the beginning. Start with a scene that is so damned vivid you can't get it out of your head and write the ass off that scene. It's all digital! You can always go back and revise it. The more you write, the better you will become, so write! Do what's in your heart! Write! Don't plan. Write. Now for the rest of the story... once you are already writing the story, you will know what is wrong with it. THAT is when you get help, get a book, maybe even write an outline to keep you on the story line. But, if you are not writing, you don't even know what you don't know. In case you can't tell, I am very passionate about my writing. That is how you need to feel about it. If you do, you will love every moment doing it.