writing a book..

@dazedaze (108)
August 22, 2009 10:00pm CST
I was wondering... has anyone here started a book? Whats the best way to start on a book? any good sites on how to write a book? YOur help will be greatly appreciated.
7 responses
@Baluyadav (3643)
• India
23 May 10
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• Indonesia
15 May 10
I'm not good at writing and I do not like to write at first. When I confronted between writing and running 30 times around the soccer field, then I would choose to run 30 times around the soccer field. But with the mylot.com, providing a space for me to pour whatever I wanted to write, any ideas. Although the number of posts my account still a little but this is better than a few weeks ago. Continue to turn the spirit of writing? Law of attraction always happen? Hopefully in the future you get what you want.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
24 Aug 09
I've started and finished several. I'm currently working on finishing two. Best way? Everyone's got their own method. I personally work out how I want to start the first page or chapter of the story, and then I start writing from there. Usually I'll have an outline for how the story works out, but not everyone needs one.
@vera5d (4005)
• United States
23 Aug 09
I have found I can write nonficion books very easily (such as "how to do xyz or everything you need to know about abc) - for those books I set an outline as to how I want to organize them (chapter 1, chapter 2, etc.) and then I just write those sections. I haven't written any hardback books, but have found ebooks are great (free to publish!) and a lot of people are interested in them - I give them away free to my subscribers on my websites. Fiction is another story. For that I can say I have "started them" quite a few times - but when it comes to finishing them I always get hung up on something and never really do resolve the story. I did recently write a children's short story that would be a really cute book, but haven't had the time to think about what to do with it. One site that might be helpful in NANOWRIMO. http://www.nanowrimo.org/ Their goal is to get you to write a novel in 30 days :) Good luck!
• United States
26 Aug 09
i always start off my stories and books right in the middle of the action to get the ready excited and already into it then i back track a little and then move forward with the story so that the reader can keep up without missing a beat.
• United States
23 Aug 09
I don't know of any websites about writing books, but I can tell you, that there really is no 'best' way to start a book. I often find myself starting in the middle and figure the rest as i go along. Also whenever i get an idea for a story i instantly write it down somewhere and make notes of the ideas and characters start forming in my mind. The best thing for you to do before you even start writing the book is sit down with pen and paper, make a graph and/or time-line for the story, the ideas for character names, plots, events. Then after you have all that sit down and figure out where you want to start with it. This may not work for you as everyone is different its just the one that works best for me (I've written several books, just don't have the guts to try and get them published LOL)
@scrawl (374)
• India
23 Aug 09
Are you planning in writing an online book that would you plan in marketing online or a paperback / hard-copy ?