Comments on: How to be a writer in 20 years or more http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/ A forum for discussion of news that arises at the intersection of Christianity and culture. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:46:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: michelle http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260878 michelle Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:26:22 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260878 Sigh. If only it weren't true. Trust me, I've been sending out royalty statements lately. You can make more per hour recycling aluminum cans. :-( Sigh. If only it weren’t true.

Trust me, I’ve been sending out royalty statements lately. You can make more per hour recycling aluminum cans. :-(

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]]> By: llama http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260866 llama Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:48:54 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260866 I think I am going to write some really bad Haiku's about everyone wanting to write novels but I'm not going to follow the simple rules required for Haiku. Then I am going to publish them on WMB with plenty of :-) and have Harrison edit them for me by turning them into prose, which he is very good at by the way, and thus a fine novel for me - but he will probably call it a very long poem based on a collection of improperly structured short stories :-) I think I am going to write some really bad Haiku’s about everyone wanting to write novels but I’m not going to follow the simple rules required for Haiku.

Then I am going to publish them on WMB with plenty of :-) and have Harrison edit them for me by turning them into prose, which he is very good at by the way, and thus a fine novel for me – but he will probably call it a very long poem based on a collection of improperly structured short stories :-)

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]]> By: Galadriel http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260806 Galadriel Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:52:31 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260806 I love weird! And Stubob #8, the National novel writing month thing was awesome. I got sucked in. (: I love weird! And Stubob #8, the National novel writing month thing was awesome. I got sucked in. (:

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]]> By: trr http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260777 trr Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:52:10 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260777 KBells, Some people like weird. Keep at it. KBells,
Some people like weird. Keep at it.

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]]> By: trr http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260775 trr Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:50:48 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260775 <i>Everybody wants to write a novel or a screenplay.</i> No, I don't. <i>If you don’t, you’re lying to yourself.</i> No, I'm not. Really. I would like to to write a symphony, but I honestly don't think there's one in me. Sigh. I do think I could write an entry for the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest, and maybe even get an honorable mention. That's about it. Everybody wants to write a novel or a screenplay.

No, I don’t.

If you don’t, you’re lying to yourself.

No, I’m not.

Really.

I would like to to write a symphony, but I honestly don’t think there’s one in me. Sigh.

I do think I could write an entry for the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest, and maybe even get an honorable mention.

That’s about it.

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]]> By: kBells http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260773 kBells Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:47:53 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260773 Outcast, I’ll remember that. Right now, I’ve given up on the first book and blocked on the second one. Outcast, I’ll remember that. Right now, I’ve given up on the first book and blocked on the second one.

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]]> By: KI http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260768 KI Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:36:20 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260768 Cheryl D, Congratulations on all your success. I do believe that you are right about the self-publishing. That has happened a lot in the music industry. Of course, the problem then is in distribution of what you have written or performed. llama, you haven't even read my stuff! :cry: Cheryl D, Congratulations on all your success. I do believe that you are right about the self-publishing. That has happened a lot in the music industry. Of course, the problem then is in distribution of what you have written or performed.

llama, you haven’t even read my stuff! :cry:

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]]> By: outkast http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260752 outkast Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:58:30 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260752 KBells: Not to promote my line of work, but there are several editors who frequent this blog and might be interested in taking a look at your work? KBells: Not to promote my line of work, but there are several editors who frequent this blog and might be interested in taking a look at your work?

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]]> By: Cheryl D. http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260742 Cheryl D. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:36:16 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260742 Stubob: A lot of 'em already are. That's what editors are for. And in young adult novels, those things stay. I have written two books of children's fiction, not yet published. I have absolutely no desire to write adult fiction. (I've published adult nonfiction, two books so far.) And as an insider in publishing (15 years this spring), I can tell you it's really, really hard to get anything published. I think this year will be big for me: I should hear about one book this month, and I think it will be a yes, and I'm trying to get an agent for another, and for the kids' fiction I have a publisher that told me to send it to them this spring if I didn't have a publisher by then. But that's after years of trying for some of these books, knowing just the right people, already being in print, sending in books that are well-written, etc. More and more people (even people who write very well) are giving up and self-publishing, and I personally think that self-publishing will soon turn the industry upside down. Stubob:

A lot of ‘em already are. That’s what editors are for. And in young adult novels, those things stay.

I have written two books of children’s fiction, not yet published. I have absolutely no desire to write adult fiction. (I’ve published adult nonfiction, two books so far.)

And as an insider in publishing (15 years this spring), I can tell you it’s really, really hard to get anything published. I think this year will be big for me: I should hear about one book this month, and I think it will be a yes, and I’m trying to get an agent for another, and for the kids’ fiction I have a publisher that told me to send it to them this spring if I didn’t have a publisher by then. But that’s after years of trying for some of these books, knowing just the right people, already being in print, sending in books that are well-written, etc. More and more people (even people who write very well) are giving up and self-publishing, and I personally think that self-publishing will soon turn the industry upside down.

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]]> By: StuBob http://online.worldmag.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/comment-page-1/#comment-260734 StuBob Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:22:22 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/01/10/how-to-be-a-writer-in-20-years-or-more/#comment-260734 Who was it? LonChaney? Somebody a couple of years ago made an offer, right here on WMB, to write an "opposing view" column or some such for WORLD (on Dead Tree -- WODT, not to be confused with NRODT). He offered several times, but I never saw a response here. Personally, I'm checking my email daily to find WODT's request to publish my column, "Unencumbered By Data." For you frustrated novelists who just can't get started, let me recommend National Novel Writing Month: nanowrimo.org Harrison, I think you're completely wrong -- soon, novels will be <i>loaded</i> with emoticons. :mrgreen: That, and <b>bold text!!!</b> Who was it? LonChaney? Somebody a couple of years ago made an offer, right here on WMB, to write an “opposing view” column or some such for WORLD (on Dead Tree — WODT, not to be confused with NRODT). He offered several times, but I never saw a response here. Personally, I’m checking my email daily to find WODT’s request to publish my column, “Unencumbered By Data.”

For you frustrated novelists who just can’t get started, let me recommend National Novel Writing Month: nanowrimo.org

Harrison, I think you’re completely wrong — soon, novels will be loaded with emoticons. :mrgreen: That, and bold text!!!

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