Writing a book....... - Page 9

trolls' bane · 06-25-2006, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuinor

Thanks yet again, Troll's Bane.

Actually, I do know about some things when it comes to physics, especially Einstines theories of Special and General Relativity, but I'm still not up to date with what I know. What I really like to do is take things such as light speed travel and really twist the idea into something totally unheard of, like saying that when something breaks the light speed barrier then it is converted into energy, but then I take it that much further to say that as energy, that object finds itself in a completely new world where energy is like unto our matter, and our matter is like unto energy. Such ideas fascinate me.

Don't let me say otherwise! *voracious inner physics professor fights to blurb something about energy and light out*

Tuinor · 06-25-2006, 01:23 AM

Sorry if I was wrong. Still, such ideas fascinate me.

By the way, I just discovered that you are the writer of ZAQ1. I only got to read the first two chapters, but I found them incredibly interesting.

trolls' bane · 06-25-2006, 01:30 AM

And me too! *Inner very-orthodox maniacal physicist: No you don't! Kill them! Kill them all! Give them all antimatter apples! Burn them!* *Inner Sax Russell style physicist: *blink* *blink* *blink* * *Inner Sigmund Freud: Don't do it. Remember, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.* *Inner SciFi Writer: w00t!*

Curubethion · 06-25-2006, 02:21 PM

*sigh*
And this is why I stick to fantasy.

Acalewia · 06-26-2006, 08:50 PM

Curubethion · 06-26-2006, 11:57 PM

I'm at page 152 now...
I wrote the whole thing in little "Episode" chunks...currently, I'm at Episode 48 out of 96-that's exactly halfway! I've been merging episodes into chapters, so now I'm at Chapter 25.

Acalewia · 07-10-2006, 07:24 PM

How's the book coming, Curub?

Curubethion · 07-11-2006, 09:58 PM

For the "Golden Mail", I really haven't made a lot of progress...just a few more pages.

So much to do, so little time...

For that "Golden Blade" book, I'm on "Chapter" 60, out of a planned 96 or so "Chapters"-that's basically 120 pages. I'm doing four pages a day, so I should finish the book up by August. The plot's starting to go places-I can see the end very clearly.

It's actually a bit of a darker book than my first two...I'm delving a lot more into the character's personality. With the first two, the narrative action focused on multiple characters, and also included points-of-view of some of the bad guys. With this one, there's none of that. It's third-person, but you can't see any action that the main character doesn't see.

Acalewia · 07-12-2006, 01:03 PM

Wow. I can't wait until it's published.

Which reminds me I need to get to work on Fight for Freedom

Curubethion · 07-12-2006, 10:17 PM

I just finished mapping out my plot. I have basically everything written out that's going to happen. Now I just have to write it. It's getting interesting, though.

I love threading little sub-plots into the story, and I feel that focusing on a single character helped me along that way. It's easier to work on a plot with fewer characters.

After I finish this book, which will complete the "trilogy", I'll write another story, where the characters from each book team up to fight a dark evil arisen from the past...(ominous theme music)

Acalewia · 07-14-2006, 01:36 PM

I have a chapter by chapter summery written so I don't forget what I wanted in each chapter.

Curubethion · 07-14-2006, 04:04 PM

Yep. I've only gotten around to writing those about two-thirds of the way through.

But they really help. I get a much better idea of how things will unfold.

I discovered that I waaay overestimated the size of my book. It's only going to be about 20 more "chapters".

Thain Peregrin Took I · 07-19-2006, 01:53 AM

Everyone sounds like they're doing great on their books!

Unfortunately, I haven't been doing much writing lately, because I've been kinda busy, but I hope to start again soon. I've actually just came up with a plot for a mystery, so I'll probably write that soon.

Tamuril Sirfalas · 07-19-2006, 08:19 PM

haha Acalewia ...remembeer how i said i was going to be a vet and i had my life planned out...and then you said yours slipped throught the cracks....well mine did too.

I know that right now, i wont be able to be a vet because of my school work and my mum suggested that i chose a different career for now. so this is

TS's new plan for her life:
take a year off after i graduate from highschool, get apprenticed and become a horse trainer...and then go to university...get a major in english, and become a writer...see how this ties in with this thread? am i a smooth operator or what!!

Acalewia · 07-22-2006, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tamuril Sirfalas

haha Acalewia ...remembeer how i said i was going to be a vet and i had my life planned out...and then you said yours slipped throught the cracks....well mine did too.

Didn't mean to jinks you

Quote:

TS's new plan for her life:
take a year off after i graduate from highschool, get apprenticed and become a horse trainer...and then go to university...get a major in english, and become a writer...see how this ties in with this thread? am i a smooth operator or what!!

Indeed.

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 07-25-2006, 03:10 PM

Wow. I finally started writing one of my stories! (Finally...) Still on the first chapter, though. I'm a better writer than I thought!

trolls' bane · 07-27-2006, 09:33 PM

I just made a major breakthrough in all of my writing. Why have me write all my terrible stuff, when I could have my cousin write it for me! I love his stuff! Of course, that's cheating, so I just get ideas from him and then rewrite them, combine them, edit then, burn them, then write them again from memory.

Tamuril Sirfalas · 08-16-2006, 02:42 PM

no one jixed....i have PLOT! for my novel # 3...called these hidden words

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 08-17-2006, 12:44 AM

I finished writing a short story for a contest. I won, actually; but only Pip and I were competing.

Curubethion · 08-17-2006, 06:24 PM

I finished my book a couple days ago. Giving it to a friend to read...

06-25-2006, 01:23 AM	#162
Tuinor Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wandering in circles until they become triangles Posts: 292	Sorry if I was wrong. Still, such ideas fascinate me. By the way, I just discovered that you are the writer of ZAQ1. I only got to read the first two chapters, but I found them incredibly interesting. Last edited by Tuinor : 06-25-2006 at 01:27 AM.

06-25-2006, 01:30 AM	#163
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	And me too! Inner very-orthodox maniacal physicist: No you don't! Kill them! Kill them all! Give them all antimatter apples! Burn them! Inner Sax Russell style physicist: blink* blink blink * Inner Sigmund Freud: Don't do it. Remember, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Inner SciFi Writer: w00t! __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

06-25-2006, 02:21 PM	#164
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	sigh And this is why I stick to fantasy. __________________ 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)

06-26-2006, 08:50 PM	#165
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	__________________ "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

06-26-2006, 11:57 PM	#166
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I'm at page 152 now... I wrote the whole thing in little "Episode" chunks...currently, I'm at Episode 48 out of 96-that's exactly halfway! I've been merging episodes into chapters, so now I'm at Chapter 25. __________________ 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)

07-10-2006, 07:24 PM	#167
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	How's the book coming, Curub? __________________ "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

07-11-2006, 09:58 PM	#168
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	For the "Golden Mail", I really haven't made a lot of progress...just a few more pages. So much to do, so little time... For that "Golden Blade" book, I'm on "Chapter" 60, out of a planned 96 or so "Chapters"-that's basically 120 pages. I'm doing four pages a day, so I should finish the book up by August. The plot's starting to go places-I can see the end very clearly. It's actually a bit of a darker book than my first two...I'm delving a lot more into the character's personality. With the first two, the narrative action focused on multiple characters, and also included points-of-view of some of the bad guys. With this one, there's none of that. It's third-person, but you can't see any action that the main character doesn't see. __________________ 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)

07-12-2006, 01:03 PM	#169
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	Wow. I can't wait until it's published. Which reminds me I need to get to work on Fight for Freedom __________________ "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

07-12-2006, 10:17 PM	#170
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I just finished mapping out my plot. I have basically everything written out that's going to happen. Now I just have to write it. It's getting interesting, though. I love threading little sub-plots into the story, and I feel that focusing on a single character helped me along that way. It's easier to work on a plot with fewer characters. After I finish this book, which will complete the "trilogy", I'll write another story, where the characters from each book team up to fight a dark evil arisen from the past...(ominous theme music) __________________ 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)

07-14-2006, 01:36 PM	#171
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	I have a chapter by chapter summery written so I don't forget what I wanted in each chapter. __________________ "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

07-14-2006, 04:04 PM	#172
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Yep. I've only gotten around to writing those about two-thirds of the way through. But they really help. I get a much better idea of how things will unfold. I discovered that I waaay overestimated the size of my book. It's only going to be about 20 more "chapters". __________________ 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)

07-19-2006, 01:53 AM	#173
Thain Peregrin Took I Thain of Randomness Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Most likely being completely random... Posts: 971	Everyone sounds like they're doing great on their books! Unfortunately, I haven't been doing much writing lately, because I've been kinda busy, but I hope to start again soon. I've actually just came up with a plot for a mystery, so I'll probably write that soon. __________________ 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

07-19-2006, 08:19 PM	#174
Tamuril Sirfalas Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 340	life plans haha Acalewia ...remembeer how i said i was going to be a vet and i had my life planned out...and then you said yours slipped throught the cracks....well mine did too. I know that right now, i wont be able to be a vet because of my school work and my mum suggested that i chose a different career for now. so this is TS's new plan for her life: take a year off after i graduate from highschool, get apprenticed and become a horse trainer...and then go to university...get a major in english, and become a writer...see how this ties in with this thread? am i a smooth operator or what!! __________________ 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

07-25-2006, 03:10 PM	#176
Meriadoc Brandybuck Magnificent Master of Buckland Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Buckland, U.S.A. Posts: 1,138	Wow. I finally started writing one of my stories! (Finally...) Still on the first chapter, though. I'm a better writer than I thought! __________________ 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

07-27-2006, 09:33 PM	#177
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	I just made a major breakthrough in all of my writing. Why have me write all my terrible stuff, when I could have my cousin write it for me! I love his stuff! Of course, that's cheating, so I just get ideas from him and then rewrite them, combine them, edit then, burn them, then write them again from memory. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

08-16-2006, 02:42 PM	#178
Tamuril Sirfalas Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 340	no one jixed....i have PLOT! for my novel # 3...called these hidden words __________________ 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

08-17-2006, 12:44 AM	#179
Meriadoc Brandybuck Magnificent Master of Buckland Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Buckland, U.S.A. Posts: 1,138	I finished writing a short story for a contest. I won, actually; but only Pip and I were competing. __________________ 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

08-17-2006, 06:24 PM	#180
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I finished my book a couple days ago. Giving it to a friend to read... __________________ 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)

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