Comments | goldenbrown69: Creative brick wall

goldenbrown69

Creative brick wall

Feb 21, 2006 21:14

I have had yet another idea for a novel. Require people to tell me to stop thinking about it and get on with writing the damn thing. Thanking you kindly!

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pshtaku February 21 2006, 22:03:56 UTC

Y'know - the sooner you write the first chapter, the sooner you can publish here in an f-lock, and we can all read it - like what we did for ItchyFrankie for the NaNoWriMo, and rparvaaz and f4f3 - and ask for "More! More!"

goldenbrown69 February 21 2006, 22:08:23 UTC

You see...I knew someone would talk sense. I'll have a go. I will. Ta.

pshtaku February 21 2006, 22:11:25 UTC

Good. Now get to it - chop chop.

goldenbrown69 February 21 2006, 22:24:21 UTC

:-)

bekijane February 22 2006, 00:35:04 UTC

I have one set of characters yelling to get out of the synopsis and another set looking at their fingernails and refusing to get back into the action 22k words in.

Swap muses? Maybe we'd have more success that way...

goldenbrown69 February 22 2006, 21:48:07 UTC

That definitely sounds like a plan to me. I can see the world the characters live in, I can even see the faces of a couple of them and hear their voices for that matter. Can I put pen to paper? Can I bugger! I am determined to write the first line of the first chapter before I go to bed tonight.

sorcha February 22 2006, 09:29:49 UTC

Stop thinking about it and write it!

There. Now if you would be so kind as to yell the same thing at me, it'd be appreciated!

goldenbrown69 February 22 2006, 21:48:46 UTC

WRITE IT. Cos if you do then I'll have to ;-)

f4f3 February 22 2006, 10:27:01 UTC

Me mate Mike Cobley was infamous in our writers group for taking forever to finish stories - he was always tinkering, redrafting, making improvements, and then he got a little mantra:

"To finish first, first you have to finish."

Third part of the the Shadowkings trilogy came out last year...

goldenbrown69 February 22 2006, 21:50:18 UTC

I'm going to have that tattooed onto my forehead...probably make me more attractive as well as being useful! Shadowkings huh? I hate it when people give me basic, sound, good advice. I feel honor bound to do something about it. Ta.

f4f3 February 23 2006, 08:07:38 UTC

Shadowkings is a lot of fun - dark, brooding fantasy with the odd outbreak of graphic blood-letting. More or less whhat I'd expect of Mike...