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myLot reputation of 92/100. ORyansBelt2012 (2111) 4 years ago

I write for a living.
Been doing it for more than 20 years.
Anyone out there want to talk writing?
You know... just chew the fat on how you come up with story ideas... what kind of story ideas you have, that sort of thing.
I got in trouble here a year or so ago running a serialized story here called The Photograph. I had my account suspended and all that stuff.
I still haven't finished the story and that's the sad part because posting it here was giving me motivation to finish it. I got so close too.
I did do a serialized story in my newspaper called My Hometown: The Legend of Big Blue. It ran for 9 months and just finished on New Year's Eve. It's sequel My Hometown: Fool's Gold starts this week. It's Southern humor stuff. Kind of take Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon and stick it in the Deep South. It's just a collection of the odd stories I've heard over the years. You know how they say, you can't make this stuff up? Well you can't.
So, anyone out there interested in talking writing, I'm here and I'm back and I've got plenty of time on my hands to kill.

 

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1. myLot reputation of 79/100. baileycows (3432)   ranked 2,124 out of 5,236 in writing   4 years ago

I have been thinking about writing a book about my life with Bipolar. I don't know where to begin writing. I have the story, but not much of a paragraph chapter person. Does someone go behind you and do that? What is a good publisher?


myLot reputation of 92/100. ORyansBelt2012 (2111)  4 years ago

You can do this one of two ways. You can dictate your thoughts into one of those mini-recorders. Since there are no cassettes involved anymore you can talk until you turn blue. The problem with writing is that you have to eventually write. For some people they do better with an outline and there are a few ways to do that.
I stink at outlines... call it my ADD kicking in.
I always start with the blank page (or screen), take a deep breath and jump right in. There are many who like to use individual index cards. You label each card with a scene name or chapter name or in this case maybe an incident name so it's easily seen, then you briefly or however much you want to, describe the scene underneath. Then, as you start to piece your story together you are basically shuffling index cards or pinning them to a bulletin board or laying them out on a table.
My thoughts on writing are this... get it down on paper. Get the story down. Gut through the hard parts because you will always come back and revise.
You will revise until you think you're going to go nuts and then revise one more time.
Writing is 90 percent appliation and 10 percent inspiration. It's applying the seat of your pants to the chair and the pencil to paper.
I hate it when people throw sayings at me.
Hope this helps get you started.

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2. myLot reputation of 93/100. winterose (18783)   ranked 35 out of 5,236 in writing   4 years ago

I am happy I came across this post, please pm me and we can exchange emails.

I too lost posts as I posted what I called "my stories" here, I got as far as posting 34 of them when someone pulled the plug and they were all deleted in one shot. I didn't get suspended or anything like that though. I write short stories, I work for a service that researches and writes for web site owners and thus I am a ghostwriter for them (only they don't have any work right now) and I have written two books.

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3. lifesavr_89 (80)   ranked 298 out of 5,236 in writing   4 years ago

i don't write stories but poetry and songs. I've always been told I was good and want to put together a compilation of all my work. Since you do write for a living, I would love to get your feedback on some of my stuff. Would you check it out and let me know what you think?
www.feelthepoet.synthasite.com
click on the link that says feel the poet at the top of the main page.

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4. myLot reputation of 94/100. stephcjh (27638)   ranked 1,297 out of 5,236 in writing   4 years ago

I'm not a writer but I have a couple of friends who love to write stories and articles. that is their passion and I am sure they would love to talk with you here. They are joined with Mylot also.

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5. myLot reputation of 87/100. shewolf52002 (650)   ranked 511 out of 5,236 in writing   4 years ago

I too love to write! I cant believe you got suspended, I was thinking about starting a story as a post and asking each respondent to fill in the next bit of the story. Guess I am glad I didnt. My problem is I can come up with awesome ideas and write several pages that captures the attention of the reader and then I get lost. Its like ok what next? For instance I have this idea for a girl who goes through something very traumatic in her life, when the rage and pain fill her she suddenly finds herself in the body of a snooty girl from school. The thing is the girl is now in her body. I got as far as the girl being committed by a loving grandmother after the girls switch back, ( she missed grandma so back she went- intense emotion is her fuel) That is just one of many I have played with, pm me and we can exchange emails. I currently write for an content site so I am not on here much.

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6. myLot reputation of 91/100. lotterylover (7430)   4 years ago

I have missed your post. Wondered what happened to you.
I am not a writer but my daughter is. I will have to see if she is interested in swapping ideas with you.

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7. myLot reputation of 96/100. dodo19 (9017)   ranked 763 out of 5,236 in writing   4 years ago

I love to write! It's been a good friend to me, over the last two or three years at least. It's my therapy, my way of releasing whatever emotions that I need to release. I've been able to publish some work online and such, though it is not much. I'm hoping to be able to continue to write and publish more of my work.

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8. myLot reputation of 94/100. MariaD (2583)   4 years ago

Hey, you do sound and look familiar here on myLot OryansBelt! Glad to know you're back up and running.

I love writing. It is one of my passions. I am hoping to pursue it as a professional career and not just as a hobby. Could you give us some advice or tips on here, seeing as you write for a living? Like, how'd you get started? What were the road bumps that you faced in struggling as a writer? What's your motivation or principle mantra to keep on writing and writing and writing?

I do a little bit of online writing, but they're mostly non-earning. I keep on reading anything I can grab my hands on. Reading is a good learning tool for writing. I've also been working on trying to get some of my works published. Wish me luck!

Happy writing!

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9. myLot reputation of 50/100. jzbrynn (1413)   4 years ago

I wasn't much a writer myself. The reason I wrote online was in an attempt to make extra income to pay my bills. I did write several articles in Associated Content, and Helium. Some of my articles were rejected in Associated Content, due to their strict review process. And in Helium, none of articles make any money from that site. So, I just quit writing for while. I am focusing on paid per post sites, and paid to write reviews sites, they seems more promising, and earn faster than paid to write sites. Probably it was just me, lack of potential writing skills on hand.

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10. myLot reputation of 67/100. davidabraham (352)   4 years ago

Writing whatYou know and about what You know is what usually gets You success with the public. Of course an american wouldn't be able to write pretty much about political scandals in Moscow, unless he lives there, nor a Russian would be pretty much able to write Cowboy stories.


myLot reputation of 92/100. ORyansBelt2012 (2111)  4 years ago

Well, you sort of got it right. Mark Twain said, "Write what you know." He was a product of the Mississippi, and that's what his stories were about.
My forte' is Southern humor. I've lived all my adult life in the South longer than I've lived anywhere else (30 years) and I know her stories. So I write about the South. Everything I write is set here.
I'm a newspaperman. I've been in the business for 25 years.

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