writing a novel

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Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 23 Jul 17

How Would You Describe Yourself? Pretend that you are the main character in a book you are writing. Describe your character- your physical appearance and your personality. What would make your character someone that others would...

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Three More Days Until Pay Out

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 27 Sep 16

I hope everyone has reached their goal this month. I think the month went by very fast and some days, I just didn’t find the time to write anything. I’m in the process of choosing about 300 or so of my articles and getting them...

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Camp NaNoWriMo begins in June

sheilanewton @sheilanewton (58) 17 May 12

I've talked about NaNoWriMo in another discussion. It's an annual event that invites writers to write 50000 words of their novels in the month of November. And what a great umbrella it is to work in - structure, daily word...

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I know it seems like we are getting somewhere with all of these money sites, but

MisterApropos @MisterApropos (288) • United States 29 Aug 10

I know it seems like we are getting somewhere with all of these money sites, but I believe we could make more doing something where all the profit goes straight to us. Like writing and selling a novel. I know it takes times,...

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How Many People On Here Have Written a Novel?

Erin Nicole Cochran @CallieWVU2 (520) • United States 16 Dec 09

I was just curious to see if anyone on here has ever published a novel of some kind or are in the process of writing one. I'm finally on the last edit of my novel that I've been working on for the past five years, I'm finally...

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How to find and get amazing facts for writing a novel !

Aazam @mdaazam (826) • Indore, India 22 Oct 09

I am about to write a novel , and for writing one you need astounding ground breaking facts which makes the reader captivated till its finished . But i dont know where to find these facts , please if any one can tell me where to...

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Writing a Novel

sunnflr @sunnflr (2767) • United States 26 May 09

This month I started on a novel. I've never written anything of novel length before, never being able to make a story that long. I'm going to try this time though. I have almost 5,000 words written so far. If I can't make it...

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Do you create or dictate?

Dday50627 @Dday50627 (359) • United States 26 Apr 09

there is a difference in how one writes a novel or any type of story. Some authors will wirte an outline and lay out their books plot. they will seek a beginning, a middle and an ending and work the book around it. For some...

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Just a little advice please

cher8558 @cher8558 (425) • Canada 25 Jan 09

Hi friends, I know there are some people out there who are or who have written a book or maybe more than one. I just would love some advice. I have wanted to write a novel since I was about 12 years old. The problem I have...

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How Many Un-finished Novels Have You Started?

explorations @explorations (1712) • United States 10 Jan 09

It seems like every year I think to myself, "This is the year I'll write my novel." I start one, I'll get really excited about the project, I'll get about half-way finished, and then I'll stop. Why do I keep doing this to myself...

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Have you found your name in a book?

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 8 Oct 08

Recently I met a few authors at a forum where they spoke, read from their novels, and then we got to purchase their books and get them to autograph them. I was surprised that the first author spoke about a family with my surname....

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is there a particular format in writing a novel?

thesoundofoblivion @thesoundofoblivion (18) 1 Aug 08

i am an aspiring novelist and i was wondering if there is a format in writing a novel.

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Can you finish writing a novel?

calajane @calajane (1003) • Poland 28 Jun 08

Okay, let's be honest here. How many times have you started to write a book or a short storry and never finished? Be it that you got bored with the subject, or couldn't solve the problem your characters were facing. How many books...

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Would you do a complete rewrite?

shizuoka @shizuoka (352) • United States 30 Apr 08

I have written a two-part novel with two main characters. The main character in part one dies. For various reasons, I have decided that she shouldn't die and am rewriting the book. It's a lot of work. Sometimes I get so frustrated...

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Transformed @Transformed (1259) • United States 8 Dec 07

How many pages (based on Microsoft Word or other word processing template) do your manuscripts wind up being when you finish? Also, about how many words? My children's novel wound up being 50 word pages and roughly 10,000 words.

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have you ever tried to write a novel?actually i intend to write one some day...

navneetrai_26 @navneetrai_26 (411) • India 28 Nov 07

in fact i have so many nice,wonderful & novel ideas with me which i can put into writing an interesting novel.. i have also collected many unique experience from life itself. hope one day i will be able to achieve my goal of...

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Participate in NaNoWriMo this November!!

oceaniawings_xo @oceaniawings_xo (98) • Canada 16 Sep 07

NaNoWriMo (Or National Novel Writing Month) is a challenge that takes place every year in November. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. You sign up at http://www.nanowrimo.org, where you can find tips on how to...

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A Call Out To All Fellow Writers

SereneDragon @SereneDragon (188) • United States 2 Jul 07

Hi Everyone! Ok, so I have come up with a great plot line for a novel. It's going to require some extensive research which is fine (I was the dorky kid in high school in college with two whole packs of notecard research for...

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Looking for advise on writing a novel.

TI2007 @TI2007 (47) • Canada 3 May 07

I would love to write a novel but have no idea how to get started. Is it important to have perfect grammer or should I work on get a good story at first?

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Ever stop to wonder about HOW MUCH you've written on myLot?

Denmarkguy @Denmarkguy (1845) • United States 12 Apr 07

OK, so I was a bit bored, this morning... and got to thinking about writing and participating on sites like myLot. It seems to me that it's a pretty good bet that most people who are regular contributors here-- beyond just a...

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