Writing a book....... - Page 10

Acalewia · 08-18-2006, 01:12 PM

Perhaps we will soon see it in print...

Stupid rule!!!!!

Tamuril Sirfalas · 08-18-2006, 03:57 PM

YAY! way to go you guys!!

Huorn · 08-22-2006, 10:16 PM

My book, The Green and the Gray I am humming away on. I just wrote chapter four. I actually started writing it a week ago. I wrote 4 chapters in a week. Each chapter is about 12 pages long. It also has illustrations.

Thain Peregrin Took I · 08-24-2006, 03:02 PM

I find that most of my chapters are only 1 page front and back or a little less (most likely less typed up), so I'll probably end up having to either combine chapters or adding more to each chapter.

trolls' bane · 08-24-2006, 04:53 PM

I...er...sorta lost my book in the system.

Tuinor · 08-24-2006, 10:08 PM

My computer on which I was typing my book died!

It just won't work anymore. I had over one hundred and fifty pages (eleven chapters) invested in it as well as over two hundred in failed attempts and several corresponding works that tied into it. I have a CD with some of those works written onto it, but it's a read only CD, and the files aren't really up to date. I'm trying to get it repaired, but I've not had the chance to work on it in months and it's really starting to get to me. I am, however, glad to see that you all are having somewhat better luck than I.

Curubethion · 08-24-2006, 10:58 PM

Man, I really need to back my works up...

trolls' bane · 08-25-2006, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuinor

My computer on which I was typing my book died!

It just won't work anymore. I had over one hundred and fifty pages (eleven chapters) invested in it as well as over two hundred in failed attempts and several corresponding works that tied into it. I have a CD with some of those works written onto it, but it's a read only CD, and the files aren't really up to date. I'm trying to get it repaired, but I've not had the chance to work on it in months and it's really starting to get to me. I am, however, glad to see that you all are having somewhat better luck than I.

Ouch!
(Try the power supply...)

Acalewia · 08-25-2006, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuinor

My computer on which I was typing my book died!

It just won't work anymore. I had over one hundred and fifty pages (eleven chapters) invested in it as well as over two hundred in failed attempts and several corresponding works that tied into it. I have a CD with some of those works written onto it, but it's a read only CD, and the files aren't really up to date. I'm trying to get it repaired, but I've not had the chance to work on it in months and it's really starting to get to me. I am, however, glad to see that you all are having somewhat better luck than I.

Not good! Did you have a hard copy?

Huorn · 08-27-2006, 06:41 PM

I e-mailed myself my backups just incase the shop reformats my hardrive. I sent my computer into the shop to have the plug on it fixed. If they do reformat it, I can just reinstall my word processor and download those backups again.

Tuinor · 08-27-2006, 07:51 PM

Quote (troll's bane) :

Ouch!
(Try the power supply...)

That's one of the suspected problems. Every once in a while (like on a blue moon at midnight) I can start it, but it dies just as quickly, so we (my mom's boyfriend who is helping repair it) are going to see if it's a software malefunction.

Quote (Acalewia):

Not good! Did you have a hard copy?

Yes, thankfully. It is a outdated just a bit, but I like to think I can remember the changes I've made. I think I'm cursed, though, because I'm at a part in the story where I allways either restart, loose the story, or, as in the most recent case, encounter "technical difficulty".

Acalewia · 08-27-2006, 09:16 PM

I always have a written draft, just in case. I made the mistake of typing what poped in my head and lost the whole story.

trolls' bane · 08-27-2006, 09:45 PM

Ah... I think mine is going to get lost in the process of switching hard drives. I just have this gut feeling.

Curubethion · 08-29-2006, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acalewia

I always have a written draft, just in case. I made the mistake of typing what poped in my head and lost the whole story.

Same here...the problem is, I radically beefed up the first part of my first book, because it was written when I was in 6th Grade.

trolls' bane · 08-29-2006, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

Same here...the problem is, I radically beefed up the first part of my first book, because it was written when I was in 6th Grade.

I'm gonna have to do that, not because I wrote it too early, but because it's so damn boring.

Lief Erikson · 08-29-2006, 11:57 PM

It's always wise to have the book saved on two computers . . . I should follow my own advice

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Thain Peregrin Took I · 09-05-2006, 10:08 PM

I'm actually re-writing what I've written so far, which is only 4 chapters. It's still the same characters and story, but I'm making some changes, fixing things that don't really fit in, and lengthening the chapters. But I plan to keep my original version, just in case later on I find something in there that I decide I want to include later on.

trolls' bane · 09-05-2006, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thain Peregrin Took I

I'm actually re-writing what I've written so far, which is only 4 chapters. It's still the same characters and story, but I'm making some changes, fixing things that don't really fit in, and lengthening the chapters. But I plan to keep my original version, just in case later on I find something in there that I decide I want to include later on.

Always keep your original version.

*takes out a wooden box and opens it, revealing a large stack of RPG posts that he posted since he first started, including the Fall of Numenor, etcetera*

Elfmaster XK · 09-06-2006, 06:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thain Peregrin Took I

I'm actually re-writing what I've written so far, which is only 4 chapters. It's still the same characters and story, but I'm making some changes, fixing things that don't really fit in, and lengthening the chapters. But I plan to keep my original version, just in case later on I find something in there that I decide I want to include later on.

I do this too. But editing before you have finished is, in my opinion, a bad thing. I know I do it because it is easier to edit what I have already done, than it is to create the next new bit.

Procrastination is my WORST enemy.

But if you edit too soon, you get bogged down, and you change things and then things that happen later don't work anymore. It's definately an easier process to write it all, then edit it all, because once you can see the whole work in front of you, written, it is much clearer in your mind and therefore easier to edit.

Oh well... back to my editing...er, writing.

rael · 09-07-2006, 03:19 PM

ok elf master need some tips ask me im writing a book maby you could give me some ideas i could use em go to www.homeschoolblogger.com

08-18-2006, 01:12 PM	#181
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	Perhaps we will soon see it in print... Stupid rule!!!!! __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

08-18-2006, 03:57 PM	#182
Tamuril Sirfalas Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 340	YAY! way to go you guys!! __________________ Nin o Chithaeglir, lasto beth daer: Rimmo nin Bruinen dan in Ulaer! Nin o Chithaeglir, lasto beth daer: Rimmo nin Bruinen dan in Ulaer! REST IN PEACE GRANDMA, GREAT AUNT, GREAT UNCLE .....they're gunna fly with the angels now so say goodbye..but i can't. You don't really realize the importance of someone until they are gone

08-22-2006, 10:16 PM	#183
Huorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Fangorn's Treeherd Posts: 393	My book, The Green and the Gray I am humming away on. I just wrote chapter four. I actually started writing it a week ago. I wrote 4 chapters in a week. Each chapter is about 12 pages long. It also has illustrations. __________________ Silver Valley Oak As for me and my house we will serve the LORD Just call me Oakie

08-24-2006, 03:02 PM	#184
Thain Peregrin Took I Thain of Randomness Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Most likely being completely random... Posts: 971	I find that most of my chapters are only 1 page front and back or a little less (most likely less typed up), so I'll probably end up having to either combine chapters or adding more to each chapter. __________________ Here we were trying to take Rommel, when who do we kidnap but Admiral Todley himself. What? Hahahaha. That wasn't the plan you know. - Col. Crittendon Monk: I'm 100% sure that she probably killed him. Stottlemeyer: What does that mean? Monk: 95%... I feel like Pepé Le Pew when he look up "pew" in the dictionary. French accent Le pew? Moi? Noo. -Shawn Spencer British accent It's a bobble head Bobbie! head bob -Special Agen Seely Booth

08-24-2006, 04:53 PM	#185
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	I...er...sorta lost my book in the system. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

08-24-2006, 10:08 PM	#186
Tuinor Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wandering in circles until they become triangles Posts: 292	My computer on which I was typing my book died! It just won't work anymore. I had over one hundred and fifty pages (eleven chapters) invested in it as well as over two hundred in failed attempts and several corresponding works that tied into it. I have a CD with some of those works written onto it, but it's a read only CD, and the files aren't really up to date. I'm trying to get it repaired, but I've not had the chance to work on it in months and it's really starting to get to me. I am, however, glad to see that you all are having somewhat better luck than I.

08-24-2006, 10:58 PM	#187
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Man, I really need to back my works up... __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

08-27-2006, 06:41 PM	#190
Huorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Fangorn's Treeherd Posts: 393	I e-mailed myself my backups just incase the shop reformats my hardrive. I sent my computer into the shop to have the plug on it fixed. If they do reformat it, I can just reinstall my word processor and download those backups again. __________________ Silver Valley Oak As for me and my house we will serve the LORD Just call me Oakie

08-27-2006, 07:51 PM	#191
Tuinor Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wandering in circles until they become triangles Posts: 292	Quote (troll's bane) : Ouch! (Try the power supply...) That's one of the suspected problems. Every once in a while (like on a blue moon at midnight) I can start it, but it dies just as quickly, so we (my mom's boyfriend who is helping repair it) are going to see if it's a software malefunction. Quote (Acalewia): Not good! Did you have a hard copy? Yes, thankfully. It is a outdated just a bit, but I like to think I can remember the changes I've made. I think I'm cursed, though, because I'm at a part in the story where I allways either restart, loose the story, or, as in the most recent case, encounter "technical difficulty".

08-27-2006, 09:16 PM	#192
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	I always have a written draft, just in case. I made the mistake of typing what poped in my head and lost the whole story. __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

08-27-2006, 09:45 PM	#193
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Ah... I think mine is going to get lost in the process of switching hard drives. I just have this gut feeling. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

08-29-2006, 11:57 PM	#196
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	It's always wise to have the book saved on two computers . . . I should follow my own advice . __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

09-05-2006, 10:08 PM	#197
Thain Peregrin Took I Thain of Randomness Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Most likely being completely random... Posts: 971	I'm actually re-writing what I've written so far, which is only 4 chapters. It's still the same characters and story, but I'm making some changes, fixing things that don't really fit in, and lengthening the chapters. But I plan to keep my original version, just in case later on I find something in there that I decide I want to include later on. __________________ Here we were trying to take Rommel, when who do we kidnap but Admiral Todley himself. What? Hahahaha. That wasn't the plan you know. - Col. Crittendon Monk: I'm 100% sure that she probably killed him. Stottlemeyer: What does that mean? Monk: 95%... I feel like Pepé Le Pew when he look up "pew" in the dictionary. French accent Le pew? Moi? Noo. -Shawn Spencer British accent It's a bobble head Bobbie! head bob -Special Agen Seely Booth

09-07-2006, 03:19 PM	#200
rael Hobbit Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: hutchinson ks Posts: 34	ok elf master need some tips ask me im writing a book maby you could give me some ideas i could use em go to www.homeschoolblogger.com __________________ Blessed be the giver Cursed be the thief May fortune smile apon the true And liars come to grief

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