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Really now have any of you ever tried that??? now i know i must be forcing my luck with these literature themed topics but why not.....
Now i myself have tried that numerous times but always found there was something lacking in the first chapters; only now in this summer holyday i started writing a fantasy novel that i really think im gonna finish.
Is there anyone else there????even short stories????i wrote a couple of those too

the longest i ever did were short stuff for school...
I hate all this creative stuff... It's nice if others are able to do it, but I'm happy with just reading, or looking at, or watching stuff, without having to either create nor analyse it... =)
I vaguely remember a friend of mine once giving me a story she wrote, but it was a good example of trying to put to much in it at once...

Well, good luck with your book, maybe you will become as famous and rich with your first book as J.K.Rowling did with hers =)

Oh yeeah suuuure .
Anyway i understand that manu people dont have creativity
I enjoy watching too

AWGR ASFG

It's the first time i hear of someone writing a technical book... what can i say im impressed I perssonaly use a structural approach on everything i do.

Oh, I've also written quite a bit of technical stuff for my university, but the only thing that would qualify as a book was a group effort... I'm already a bit afraid of having to write my diplomarbeit one day... a looong text about something i researched that i must produce to get my diploma... oh well, still some time till then

I agree, a premade strucute helps a lot... I tend to be rather chaotic about it, but i think that you can notice that while reading my texts And while it might not sound like it, I think it's even more important to have at least a vague outline prewritten for fiction as well, if you don't you end up not answering some questions, or including inconsistencies etc and reader tend to find those much faster then writers

Thank you silentguy i am aware of that

I tried to write a book once... it was to be a cry for freedom, a powerful and moving portrait of the world we live in etc. etc. etc.

It was lame.

I'm sorry for that but why not keep trying???

I write small stories. I began do it from fifth form, in school. First stories were fairy tales. Now i try to write fantasy story. I think that it should be 100-200 pages.

Heh just like me Pinkybyte, keep writing probably will share each others works

Interesting... Yes, I tried to do that, but the results are not satisfied me.

never tried seriously...... always been on a reader side.//....

There's some component that's crucial for me, and that "in my oppinion" makes a god writer....first of all I think a good writer has to read A LOT, before trying of course writing his own book, anyways it doesn't mean you couldn't try, but in order to make good things, you must first learn how things work. Also I think practice is so important as in everything we do. So writing, and writing is the best.

Tried writing a book when I was alot younger but it failed. Too much work.