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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: cenwolfgirl on April 01, 2012, 02:47:21 PM
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okay so i have been around here a wile and i was wondering
when did people start writting
how long did it take to get there frist book published
what publishers would you recomend for a first timer
okay so i am eddiing with help from a freind my first book
and am curess if i am being ambishus to want to get my book in a state where i would be happy for others to read it in the next year (by jan feb next year ish time)
i have been writting since i was 13
writting my in this curent univers since i was 15
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I've been writing for twenty-two years. I've finished two novels. I've never been published. Jim took six or seven novels before he wrote Storm Front. His wife was published on her first try, if I remember correctly.
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cool this is my threr univers os the second one in this univers will be noval 5 i think
but i have only properly liked.compleated one
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I've been writing for twenty-two years. I've finished two novels. I've never been published. Jim took six or seven novels before he wrote Storm Front. His wife was published on her first try, if I remember correctly.
Shannon's first published book was not the first she wrote. She wrote quite a few before she got one she wanted to show to anyone.
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I had to write a campaign speech for Julius Ceasar when I was a sophomore in highschool. I ran wild with it and ever since I've wanted to write. I always enjoyed reading, but that moment was when I realized I had it in me to produce original writing, and man did I ever enjoy that paper. Just popped on the head phones, sat down, and then proceeded to type for the next two hours.
Paper only needed to be a page long, mine ended up being several pages, and a works cited section from our history and encyclopedia collection at home :)
EDIT: I miss posting in the JB forums....
Stupid real life commitments! Maybe when things settle down I'll be able to be a contributing member of our little society again. :)
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I have always enjoyed creating stories, ever since i was little. My imaginary friends had very thought out back stories and our adventures could have filled a novel. I didn't actually start putting words to paper seriously until i started taking collage level writing courses.
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wow now i feel realy little as i havent startedd collage yet
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CWG, don't worry about it.
You start when you start.
I just heard a story, true, that a 98 year old Lobster Fisherman finally learned how
to read and just recently published his first book.
There is no real average age for a writer.
Some get lucky their first time and others have to try several times.
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thanks snow that makes me feel better
i think i am the yungest on this bord oh well ;D
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Naw, I actually think DC is younger than you are but I don't
know if he's doing any writing.
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if he is its not by much and no he dose not do writting to my nolage
oh well it just gives me an opitunety to lurn from thoughs with more exspirence ;D
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Yes, people are very, very good on this Forum about helping new writers
or first time writers.
And if you have a question about something for your writing - posting it on the Forum in the writing section may gain you an answer because we have a lot of different people with different skills on this Forum.
I know we have a veterinarian, there are many Military veterans, any number of Scientists, someone who
handles rescue dogs, I worked at the Studios, computer experts, and lots of other skilled and/or
talented peoples.
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yep and i am good on the subject of dogs and visuale impearments
not that that will ever be a usful thing unless any one wnats to do a chr with a disabilaty
its grate here if you have a question 9 times out of 10 you will get the anser you are looking for
;D
or if not an ansser that is usfull
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We won't mention the goofy and totally non useful answers! ::) ::) ::) ::)
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but they can be amusing ;D
i should finnish my curent chapter realy but weird is being talkative
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Yeah, we go through spells like that.
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lol (night snow) ;D
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I started telling stories at campfires. My professional writing started six years ago, my wife and an editor mouse trapped me at the 06 world con in Anaheim, CA. I escaped the room party committed to two articles and a short story. Since then we have gone from E-magazine shorts to a serialized four part novella, to shopping around novels. It is like pumping water, you just have to keep moving the crank.
Regards,
Kevin
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well your having more luck then me then i have yet to actualy get anything published oh well maybe i can actualy take that line of thought siresly in the summer
good luck
CWG
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Hey all, I'm fairly new here but I came across this section of the forums as I breezed my way through. I figured this'll be a good a place as any to do some form of an introduction. Anyway, I started writing 3 years ago to relieve stress I was undergoing at my college. It helped a lot! Since I've started writing I've only finished one short story and started several others (just began a new one a couple days ago in fact). While publishing would be awesome it's not something I particularly desire for fiction to be honest. My real goal in writing is to get an academic paper publish in a journal some day on the late Roman Empire or Early-Mid Medieval Ages. Buuuut I'd be lying if I said I didn't want something published nonetheless if the whole academic thing doesn't work out. In fact my medieval teacher stated he is friends with a fellow who got a doctorate specializing on the Byzantine Empire but found no teaching job, so he wrote Byzantines in space and became a very successful author, go figure.
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2004 I found Baen's Bar. The sneak peak at what the authors were writing was awsome. Then I stumbled on the slush pile and realized anyone could pen a story and have others look at it.
I've been doodling around ever since. Now I'm on amazon. I would probably say go with baen if you're looking for a publisher but I have no great expertise. They just got on the web first and had the most advanced outlook on ebooks and web presence.
The Deposed King
The Deposed King
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I've been writing one night a week - four times out of five on a Friday - regularly since mid-1995. (cenwolf, if that's before you were alive, i shall feel old. I was halfway through my PhD at that point.)
Since which point I have; written 450,000 words of a Christian-mythos fantasy novel that's probably unsellable because of how pre-9/11 its world is, which I would probably split into a trilogy, and would count as "finished" bar a revision pass on the last 50kwords, but it's hard to make motivate myself to do that; written a lost-colony-world novel; written four-and-a-bit novels* and one short story in wildly different corners and periods of an SF future ranging from the 2030s to 28,000 AD (there are three more planned for that setting, the latest one being three million years in the future); written chunks of two fantasy novels; and most recently written two more space operas** in a New! Shiny! Universe! in which I think I have closely-linked series material for several more novels.
*This includes the book I refer to as The Thing I Should Be Working On.
**This includes the book I refer to as The Thing I Want To Work On.
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The year I was born you started writing
It depends witch month you started
Before the 27 of may abd then yes before I was born hee hee ;D
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For those of you who might become frustrated, look here http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Reject.html to see what an editor once wrote concerning a manuscript submitted by Ursula K. Le Guin. The manuscript? The Left Hand of Darkness which went on to win both Hugo and Nebula awards.
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For myself, I started writing seriously (though not seriously, most of my stories are light fantasy) in 2004. I've got around a dozen or so short stories, one NaNoWriMo attempt, one set of stories submitted, but not yet accepted, at Kindle, and one semi-serious wip (currently standing at around 40,000 - 50,000 words, I haven't done a word count lately). :D
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wow well done RSL
yeah i am not yet published and still editting the drafts and writing the other progects
but there is time after all i am not yet 17 ;D
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I've been writing one night a week - four times out of five on a Friday - regularly since mid-1995. (cenwolf, if that's before you were alive, i shall feel old. I was halfway through my PhD at that point.)
Since which point I have; written 450,000 words of a Christian-mythos fantasy novel that's probably unsellable because of how pre-9/11 its world is, which I would probably split into a trilogy, and would count as "finished" bar a revision pass on the last 50kwords, but it's hard to make motivate myself to do that; written a lost-colony-world novel; written four-and-a-bit novels* and one short story in wildly different corners and periods of an SF future ranging from the 2030s to 28,000 AD (there are three more planned for that setting, the latest one being three million years in the future); written chunks of two fantasy novels; and most recently written two more space operas** in a New! Shiny! Universe! in which I think I have closely-linked series material for several more novels.
*This includes the book I refer to as The Thing I Should Be Working On.
**This includes the book I refer to as The Thing I Want To Work On.
Pretty amazing Neuovore. I am envious. I would say you are the 'man'. Except for the puzzling gender neutral stance you were trying to cultivate.
Regardless, that's a lot of product and something for others to look up to and strive for. Keep up that great work.
The Deposed King
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yep The Deposed King is right i am sertenly inprest
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Pretty amazing Neuovore. I am envious. I would say you are the 'man'. Except for the puzzling gender neutral stance you were trying to cultivate.
I hope it's not that puzzling; in an ideal world, my physical gender would be relevant only to medical people with whom I'm professionally interacting, as such of my sweeties as have a preference in the matter. And I am a firm believer in working as if one lives in the early days of a better nation.
Regardless, that's a lot of product and something for others to look up to and strive for. Keep up that great work.
Thank you kindly; I intend to.