Writing a book....... - Page 4

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 02-17-2006, 09:19 PM

I've got ideas for two books. Yes, still ideas. I've got the plot and everything. Just need to write it. That's the hardest part.

trolls' bane · 02-17-2006, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck

I've got ideas for two books. Yes, still ideas. I've got the plot and everything. Just need to write it. That's the hardest part.

What genre?

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 02-17-2006, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by trolls' bane

What genre?

Fantasy and realistic fiction.

trolls' bane · 02-17-2006, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck

Fantasy and realistic fiction.

REALISTIC FICTION! Pfff...A for effort. If this was my Star Wars RPG board I'd give you 10,000 credits, right, Rohirrim?

Curubethion · 02-17-2006, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by strider8

I'm starting to think of some creatures for my book. But i have'nt got many ideas.

I believe there's a thread around here called "Bestiary", and it's got some inspiration if you want it. Don't copy, of course!

strider8 · 02-18-2006, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Curubethion

I believe there's a thread around here called "Bestiary", and it's got some inspiration if you want it. Don't copy, of course!

Thanks, I'll try to find it. Don't worry i won't copy

Thain Peregrin Took I · 02-18-2006, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Definitely true. At least for me. I use best grammar possible, my problem is...well...consistency. Can't seem to remember certain aspects of my writing, and then if I change a part, I forget to change another, and then I forget which is more accurate, and it gets real hard.

Exactly. Get the idea down first, so you won't forget what you're about to write while you're trying to make the grammar and spelling perfect. I've done that before. I'll be trying to see which way the sentence sounds best, the when I'm done, I'm trying to remember what I was going to put next. Am I starting to ramble?

Curubethion · 02-18-2006, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck

I've got ideas for two books. Yes, still ideas. I've got the plot and everything. Just need to write it. That's the hardest part.

To get started, look at the beginning of your plot. Decide how you're going to introduce your main characters. The best stories begin right in the middle of some kind of action: look at the Star Wars movies. I think just about all of them begin with some sort of action scene. Particularly the beginning scene of ROTS.
Why do this? It gets the reader interested, and also helps you along as you write the scene.
Introduce your characters early, and introduce the problem soon after. For example, in LOTR you began with the party, introducing the new characters and bringing back the old characters, and then moved into The Shadow of the Past.
Start the heros on their quest, and move it from there. After that, make sure your plot builds to a natural climax, and then finish with the denoument: wrapping it all up and letting it come to a conclusion.

trolls' bane · 02-18-2006, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Curubethion

To get started, look at the beginning of your plot. Decide how you're going to introduce your main characters. The best stories begin right in the middle of some kind of action: look at the Star Wars movies. I think just about all of them begin with some sort of action scene. Particularly the beginning scene of ROTS.
Why do this? It gets the reader interested, and also helps you along as you write the scene.
Introduce your characters early, and introduce the problem soon after. For example, in LOTR you began with the party, introducing the new characters and bringing back the old characters, and then moved into The Shadow of the Past.
Start the heros on their quest, and move it from there. After that, make sure your plot builds to a natural climax, and then finish with the denoument: wrapping it all up and letting it come to a conclusion.

That is very helpful for me as well. What kind of action I put in ZAQ-1 though is a different story.

No, that's not rambling. My writing, that is rambling.

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 02-18-2006, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Curubethion

To get started, look at the beginning of your plot. Decide how you're going to introduce your main characters. The best stories begin right in the middle of some kind of action: look at the Star Wars movies. I think just about all of them begin with some sort of action scene. Particularly the beginning scene of ROTS.
Why do this? It gets the reader interested, and also helps you along as you write the scene.
Introduce your characters early, and introduce the problem soon after. For example, in LOTR you began with the party, introducing the new characters and bringing back the old characters, and then moved into The Shadow of the Past.
Start the heros on their quest, and move it from there. After that, make sure your plot builds to a natural climax, and then finish with the denoument: wrapping it all up and letting it come to a conclusion.

Thank you very much for that extremely helpful information! I never even thought about it that way.

Curubethion · 02-18-2006, 09:07 PM

It's just some stuff that got pounded into my head from reading about how to write fiction.

trolls' bane · 02-18-2006, 09:07 PM

Well, hey, *becomes extremely mysterious and cryptic* I guess one doesn't have to go do a search for a website, when the one we need is the one right here that we've already got.

Curubethion · 02-18-2006, 09:36 PM

What the...? You changed your avvie!

trolls' bane · 02-18-2006, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Curubethion

What the...? You changed your avvie!

Yeah. I had to have something different for a while. I'm actually thinking of switching back though.

Curubethion · 02-19-2006, 04:01 PM

It looks like strider8 found the Bestiary thread.

hectorberlioz · 02-19-2006, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck

I've got ideas for two books. Yes, still ideas. I've got the plot and everything. Just need to write it. That's the hardest part.

I'm always fooling myself the smae way. Not that there isnt something in those drives...its just that you have to obey them, even if you dont like the resluts of the movements your hands are making...and edit later

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hectorberlioz · 02-19-2006, 04:08 PM

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Yeah. I had to have something different for a while. I'm actually thinking of switching back though.

my permanent avvie use to be a pic of Berlioz, but then I made this little guy one day...and it just stuck. I never decided it was Beethoven or Berlioz...either way, he's the archetype romantic conductor.

Thain Peregrin Took I · 02-20-2006, 10:17 PM

I have a question. Is realistic fiction a story that has made-up characters, but could actually happen? I can't find it in my dictionary...

trolls' bane · 02-20-2006, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Thain Peregrin Took I

I have a question. Is realistic fiction a story that has made-up characters, but could actually happen? I can't find it in my dictionary...

Yes, and it takes place in a realistic world. Classic mysteries, such as Sherlock Holmes, are examples of realistic fiction.

Thain Peregrin Took I · 02-20-2006, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Yes, and it takes place in a realistic world. Classic mysteries, such as Sherlock Holmes, are examples of realistic fiction.

Thanks. But wouldn't the genre of Sherlock Holmes be mystery? Or it might be both... it really doesn't matter either way.

02-17-2006, 09:19 PM	#61
Meriadoc Brandybuck Magnificent Master of Buckland Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Buckland, U.S.A. Posts: 1,138	I've got ideas for two books. Yes, still ideas. I've got the plot and everything. Just need to write it. That's the hardest part. __________________ But it is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say to much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place. -Meriadoc Brandybuck Is there anything I can do that wouldn't inconvenience me?.-Adrian Monk Hogan: What's a definate factor that we can count on? Newkirk: We don't know what we're doing. Do you wanna split a pineapple? -Shawn Spencer

02-18-2006, 09:07 PM	#71
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	It's just some stuff that got pounded into my head from reading about how to write fiction. __________________ 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)

02-18-2006, 09:07 PM	#72
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Well, hey, becomes extremely mysterious and cryptic I guess one doesn't have to go do a search for a website, when the one we need is the one right here that we've already got. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

02-18-2006, 09:36 PM	#73
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	What the...? You changed your avvie! __________________ 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)

02-19-2006, 04:01 PM	#75
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	It looks like strider8 found the Bestiary thread. __________________ 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)

02-20-2006, 10:17 PM	#78
Thain Peregrin Took I Thain of Randomness Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Most likely being completely random... Posts: 971	I have a question. Is realistic fiction a story that has made-up characters, but could actually happen? I can't find it in my dictionary... __________________ 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

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