Does everyone have one book in them?

[annik]

It's a common enough saying but can it actually be true?

I've often thought I'd like to write a book. I know I have a pretty good imagination...maybe too good at times! but I've never sat down to actually start the process. Maybe I'm a bit scared about it all. Ideas I think I've got, the ability to actually structure it into something readable might be a different issue.

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

Well, I've been working on something since 2003, but it's far from anything worthy of public release. It's more of a mess of ideas and imagination than a decently written saga. Besides the type of story has been done countless times before, so I keep it to myself.

 

[annik]

Yes perhaps we could all write one for pleasure maybe not all could / should be published...

This thread is now sort of making me think about when Stewie mocks Brian's novel in family guy...

 

[Anonymous Rex]

I think we all have at least one book in us, just by the things we're interested in or have experienced.

I'd love to be an author as well, but tend to get really self-conscious when writing, worrying that it'll turn out really stupid.

Dreamer - if you have the ideas but messy, there's always books and websites you can go to to learn about story structure.

 

[Felix]

I wrote a 3 chapter mini novel and a few tales, but nothing too big. I have a big project but it's on the freezer...

 

[theSmokingRabbit]

Wrote one not too long ago, contemporary science fiction.

Haven't done anything with it. Need to go back and edit it.

About 450ish pages (84,000~words) if I remember correctly.

 

[Ak5]

Maybe!

I have a few ideas but I never really put them on paper.

 

[Badjedidude]

I have several books and novels I've started writing. I have like 6 or 7 of them in varying stages of completion.

I'm just too lazy to buckle down and finish them.

 

[Bread]

I once tried becoming an author, didn't go well. If I do have a book in me, it's probably a children's picture book...

 

[IgnoredOne]

I've published a few stories. The word limit, however, can be atrocious at times and working with publishers can be souldraining.

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

I once tried becoming an author, didn't go well. If I do have a book in me, it's probably a children's picture book...

You reminded me of a children's book I wrote and illustrated as a high school freshman for an English project. The main character was an anthropomorphised squirrel who would encounter other characters, and it taught a certain moral, I can't remember what it was. The best part of doing this was reading my book to first graders and leaving it with their classroom. Wish I made a copy of it though.

 

[Bread]

You reminded me of a children's book I wrote and illustrated as a high school freshman for an English project. The main character was an anthropomorphised squirrel who would encounter other characters, and it taught a certain moral, I can't remember what it was. The best part of doing this was reading my book to first graders and leaving it with their classroom. Wish I made a copy of it though.

I remind you of the book, or remind you of the antromorph-squirrel?

Still, must've been nice. Shame you didn't make a copy, 'tho. Me, wish I'd still have some great big spark to write books. Content myself in making a hobbyist comic book, now, since I found I enjoy drawing just about as much as storytelling. Problematic to squeeze all the dialogue into tiny speech bubbles, 'tho.

 

[annik]

I'm starting to think there's really some truth to that statement after reading the replies!

Weirdly I tend to always have horror ish ideas for books or a least creepy ones. I don't read or watch horror though. I think my mind if just prone to finding or conjuring up fear...

Publishing is a minefield though. I tried with my poetry and you have to have rhino skin to get through it after a while. The worse story I ever heard was a guy who got rejected so many times he killed himself. Then after his death his mother sent it off again and it was excepted. Talk about tragic.