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no i have tried before when i was depressed and unemployed back in 2004 but didn't eventuate to anything. Re-read it a few days ago actually and by golly it was equally difficult and nonsensical in parts as it was brilliant. It needs a lot of reworking and expanding. With the 14,000 words i slammed down onto paper i could create a 60,000 word novel.

One day maybe!
 
I'm thirty some pages into mine. It's hard, but I've made the committment to myself to DO IT, do NOT let it go, get bored and stop, etc. So no matter what, I'm finishing it!

I think I'd have to anyway, its my baby. I'd feel like my characters were sadly sitting there in their little world with no resolution otherwise.
 
So what's your novel about, MynameisnotDeja?

I made a few false starts on novels many years ago, and I've focused on poetry since then... although I've written a handful of short stories.

I will write a verse novel one day.
 
Yep, have finished mine. It's a non-fiction, humourous take on working in a servo (gas station for all you Yanks) for five years. I worked almost exclusively nightshift and weekends, so I have some amazing stories.

Am getting ready to look for an agent now.
 
^Sounds interesting. I wanna read. :)

My book is about a 24 year old guy named Devin, who is terribly bored with life, depressed, and just stuck. He wants to be a writer but doesn't know what to write, wants love but most women bore him, wants happiness but always feels like he is missing something.

So out of nowhere he decides to drop everything, take all his savings and go travel and do wwoofing for awhile (obviously this desire was directly taken from my own life and dreams if you have read some of my threads in second opinion).

He goes to a wwoofing farm and works there and meets other like minded friends and a very special woman who he falls in love with, and the time there inspires him and shows him there is a big world out there, to write about and to experience.

Its semi-romance, semi-coming of age, semi political fiction. I don't know how to describe it better than that. When I'm done with it I'll try and decide a genre I guess. DO you even need to have a certain genre such as "romance" to market the book? Or can you just say general adult fiction?
 
Although my true calling seems to be poetry, I have done short stories & attempted 2 novels. My last attempt 6 years ago made it to 4 chapters, but fizzled. I guess it wasn't meant to be. The name was Matchstick Men, I kid you not. Hey, a good movie but the f'ing hacks STOLE MY TITLE, lol.

Keep writing. Your storyline is interesting & seems worthwhile. Be a shining star in an industry of much drivel.
 
<<So out of nowhere he decides to drop everything, take all his savings and go travel and do wwoofing for awhile (obviously this desire was directly taken from my own life and dreams if you have read some of my threads in second opinion).>>

Small world--one of my best friends has been doing WWOOF for about a year, now. Real globe-trotter, she is. :)
 
MynameisnotDeja said:
^Sounds interesting. I wanna read. :)

My book is about a 24 year old guy named Devin, who is terribly bored with life, depressed, and just stuck. He wants to be a writer but doesn't know what to write, wants love but most women bore him, wants happiness but always feels like he is missing something.

So out of nowhere he decides to drop everything, take all his savings and go travel and do wwoofing for awhile (obviously this desire was directly taken from my own life and dreams if you have read some of my threads in second opinion).

He goes to a wwoofing farm and works there and meets other like minded friends and a very special woman who he falls in love with, and the time there inspires him and shows him there is a big world out there, to write about and to experience.

Its semi-romance, semi-coming of age, semi political fiction. I don't know how to describe it better than that. When I'm done with it I'll try and decide a genre I guess. DO you even need to have a certain genre such as "romance" to market the book? Or can you just say general adult fiction?
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This guy sounds a hell of lot like me too. Most women bore me as well, and I've been toying with doing the whole artistic eloping thing for ages. I reckon it's a great idea for a book and would really strike a chord with all these kids today that have no real idea with what they want to do with their lives but know that there's something meaningful missing. If you could fill your narrative with the big world and this elusive essence we all seek, then you have a brilliant book. I'd buy it. Definitely keep on going with it if you believe in it. And make sure you read similar sort of stuff of high quality. Really helps your writing.
 
This guy sounds a hell of lot like me too. Most women bore me as well, and I've been toying with doing the whole artistic eloping thing for ages. I reckon it's a great idea for a book and would really strike a chord with all these kids today that have no real idea with what they want to do with their lives but know that there's something meaningful missing. If you could fill your narrative with the big world and this elusive essence we all seek, then you have a brilliant book. I'd buy it. Definitely keep on going with it if you believe in it. And make sure you read similar sort of stuff of high quality. Really helps your writing.
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Catcher in the Rye :-)
 
^ I love the Catcher in the Rye. My "novels" never get more than a few pages. One day though, I will finish it. I even bought a guide to novel writing, gotta finish reading that, and then some more. I just have super short attention span, and am too much of a perfectionist. I wish I wasn't though, I have so much time now and I'm just wasting it away. :\
 
I've been trying to write something epic, and have pumped out a few nice short stories.
I have some great ideas (story, plot, characters, setting, writing style, genre), but I have some problems in my head, that make me hate what I do artistically, and I have never managed to really start anything concrete.

I think I need to get a laptop and a sheet of acid, and just write something.
 
Belisarius said:
<<So out of nowhere he decides to drop everything, take all his savings and go travel and do wwoofing for awhile (obviously this desire was directly taken from my own life and dreams if you have read some of my threads in second opinion).>>

Small world--one of my best friends has been doing WWOOF for about a year, now. Real globe-trotter, she is. :)
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Awesome! Thats gonna be me come next spring! I think the real life experience will help me with my book too.
 
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This guy sounds a hell of lot like me too. Most women bore me as well, and I've been toying with doing the whole artistic eloping thing for ages. I reckon it's a great idea for a book and would really strike a chord with all these kids today that have no real idea with what they want to do with their lives but know that there's something meaningful missing. If you could fill your narrative with the big world and this elusive essence we all seek, then you have a brilliant book. I'd buy it. Definitely keep on going with it if you believe in it. And make sure you read similar sort of stuff of high quality. Really helps your writing.
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Thanks! I appreciate that.
It's damn hard writing this thing. I keep getting stuck with what I want to say.
But I feel you can't fail at something if you never give up.
 
MynameisnotDeja said:
Thanks! I appreciate that.
It's damn hard writing this thing. I keep getting stuck with what I want to say.
But I feel you can't fail at something if you never give up.
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No probs. It's a cliché but that doesn't mean it isn't true. I had no idea how my book was going to form from the jumbled mess I'd created but I kept at it and slowly it started to form.

While I don't write fiction, if you've planned out a detailed timeline and made some really comprehensive character profiles, then you're halfway there.
 
UM I kinda am, but see I have what I call Hemingway Sydrome so I only write when I drink and I have to like cut out 3/4 of what I right because its nonsensical gibberish
 
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