Thinking of Writing a Book
I have always thought I had a book in me. I know that it is not an easy task or more people would do it. I have a couple of ideas, none of which are very appropriate, but I think given enough time I could put at least one of them down into a decent format and start fleshing it out.
My wife’s #1 hobby is reading and I think she would be more then happy to proof, edit, and offer suggestions to me. The problem is motivation to write. What motivates someone to sit down and write out a 30 page chapter or is it more of a disjointed process of write a smallish (10 page) story and then start to flesh it out? Having never done this before I am kind of at a loss for where to start.
I guess I should just start doing a bit of research and see where it takes me. I am thinking historical fiction or maybe some fantasy. I would love to write something tailored for my wife’s tastes, that would be awesome as hell. She has a very eclectic taste in books so that might actually be kind of difficult to pull off.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
You need to talk to Meg. She’s the closest thing we have to a regular writer locally, she’ll have some advice for you.