Anyone with book ideas

[Wandering hobo]

Im thinking something along the lines of comical fantasy

than i would suggest reading the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchet, the best in that genre.

partly where i got my inspiration

 

[Your once and future Fanboy]

Im thinking something along the lines of comical fantasy

than i would suggest reading the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchet, the best in that genre.

partly where i got my inspiration

i would also read "the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" and study the way Douglas Adams describes the most absurd things with simple, but yet funny words: i.e "the spaceships where hanging in the air, much like bricks don't"

 

[Wandering hobo]

Im thinking something along the lines of comical fantasy

than i would suggest reading the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchet, the best in that genre.

partly where i got my inspiration

i would also read "the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" and study the way Douglas Adams describes the most absurd things with simple, but yet funny words: i.e "the spaceships where hanging in the air, much like bricks don't"

yeah i plan on reading that

 

[Yosato]

Don't take this the wrong way but I think it'd be best if you made your own stuff up; it's far easier, more natural and ultimately satisfying to write something you've created and enjoy rather than someone else's material.

 

[roostuf]

I would tell you the plan for MY novel then again you might take as your own. Sorry for being a bit paranoid but it is a work in progress so yeah.

i originally wanted to ask for your ideas on the books but then i thought that you would think that i would want to steal them.

Well if you really want ideas for your book how about that in your book instead of zombies or robots there will be monsters made out of glass.

 

[Wandering hobo]

Don't take this the wrong way but I think it'd be best if you made your own stuff up; it's far easier, more natural and ultimately satisfying to write something you've created and enjoy rather than someone else's material.

which is what i plan on doing

 

[SturmDolch]

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an author.

I was good at writing since we first started in Elementary school, winning the school's Young Author's Award. In Junior High, though, creative writing all but disappeared. It was replaced with the mindless grind of literary analysis. "Shakespeare wrote that ____ said ____ therefore ____ is _____". Over and over again. This persisted through High School, but we had a few opportunities to do some creative writing. Teachers really liked mine.

And now I'm in University. My English courses were the same literary analysis bullshit as the previous 6 years, but I had an amazing professor for my first semester. He gave us a creative writing project and I got a high mark on it. Also, I've started reading books that really interest me. So now I want to start writing. I have a plan built up for a story. I just need to start it now.

Maybe I won't make anything good enough. Maybe I'll never finish it. That's why I'm taking Computing Sciences in University. I'll always have a backup, but my dream has always been to write.

 

[craddoke]

Sci-Fi is not a genre whose readers have been spoiled with good female characters.

Margaret Atwood. Sherri Tepper.

Sci-fi movies are a different story.

 

[craddoke]

In Junior High, though, creative writing all but disappeared. It was replaced with the mindless grind of literary analysis...And now I'm in University. My English courses were the same literary analysis bullshit as the previous 6 years...

Both my wife and I are teachers. In our experience, teaching creative writing to anyone below the undergraduate level is a pointless exercise from a pedagogical perspective (although it can be fun and serve as an outlet for creative energies) - sure, there are a few idiot savants, but most of what kids are capable of producing is pure dreck. Literary analysis, on the other hand, is a skill that can be taught to anyone from Junior High up (funny coincidence, there).

 

[Wandering hobo]

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an author.

I was good at writing since we first started in Elementary school, winning the school's Young Author's Award. In Junior High, though, creative writing all but disappeared. It was replaced with the mindless grind of literary analysis. "Shakespeare wrote that ____ said ____ therefore ____ is _____". Over and over again. This persisted through High School, but we had a few opportunities to do some creative writing. Teachers really liked mine.

And now I'm in University. My English courses were the same literary analysis bullshit as the previous 6 years, but I had an amazing professor for my first semester. He gave us a creative writing project and I got a high mark on it. Also, I've started reading books that really interest me. So now I want to start writing. I have a plan built up for a story. I just need to start it now.

Maybe I won't make anything good enough. Maybe I'll never finish it. That's why I'm taking Computing Sciences in University. I'll always have a backup, but my dream has always been to write.

good luck with that

 

[tharglet]

The world is much better off with me not writing

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I've thought about doing a short history of the Earl of Essex--he tried to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I back at the end of her reign, failed spectacularly, and almost got William Shakespeare into trouble in the process. It's a great story.

I have to crank out 80,000 words of PhD thesis first, though. Bleah.