So i started writing...

[Oh That Dude]

It's nice, also I have a question to writers of thEscapist, is there a poetry themed user group to be found?

 

[Slash Dementia]

It's nice, also I have a question to writers of thEscapist, is there a poetry themed user group to be found?

I'd like to know this, too.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

It's fairly good. Well written, if that's what you're asking for. However, I can't even comment on the concept or whatever idea you're trying to write considering how vague the opening is. Apparently, one of those destiny-babies was born today. That's all I got really. You can't even truly figure that the baby being born will be our main character. You see how little you gave us to work with?

It's important to work out the plot before putting anything finite down. People in the education system would tell you that you should get your ideas out and just start writing. Well, a creative writing story is different than an essay. What you need to do is to start writing, but whatever you're writing will not be your story. Write you're entire concept of the story you want to convey out in the plainest terms. When you're finished, write it again adding specified details. Plan out plot points and do entire character studies for your characters. It all can't just be from your head.

From what I can tell, you plan to get this all out in one go. Write out one page or one chapter at a time and build on that. I figure that simply because I used to do the same thing when I was a freshman in high school. Well, that's really what you can't do. You can't just start writing your story and try to sound as fancy and well-written as possible. That comes after you get your story out on paper. Seriously, multiple rewrites are your friend, and I don't mean making small changes. I mean, blank paper in front of you and completely rewrite your story. I know it doesn't sound fun, but that's the way you need to do it in creative writing. And, this subject is a creative writing matter, not composition. Those are two different classes. Perhaps if you tell us the actual story you wish to write, I could help you better than with just this vague opening.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Keep in mind I'm not an author. If you want advice on writing you might want to hear what some other authors have said. Anyway...

If you want to turn this into a novel than you need to really, really want it to be a novel. A novel isn't like a flower because it doesn't grow itself, it's probably closer to a wrestling match because you constantly need to be on top of it, trying to get it pinned down. If you give up you've lost and the book isn't written, so you really have to want it.

As for what you've given, it's alright but it has to be longer, I think. The first paragraph in a book is important because it's here that people decide whether they want to put in the time to read it, but I've seen so many people write very, very short chapters that would never actually be published by themselves and it pisses me off. The first page of my copy of the prologue of The Lord of The Rings has about 400 or so words and I'm not saying to go and write LoTR, but you have to put in more stuff to a chapter.

If you have trouble with length aim for a short story or maybe draw a brief story arc and then seperate that into chapters and then set out to write each chapter. Try to find your own way of writing if your current way is too difficult.

For the story, doesn't seem that interesting to me, sorry. I don't really know much about the world you've set up and you haven't really given me any reason to care. I feel that I've heard this before and I don't really want to hear it again. I think starting with a babies brith and making a deal about that is somewhat cliche, it would be better if a prologue would describe the world and then link into the childs birth somewhat. Also, if you want to make a messiah story read good examples of those stories done right. Dune, is a good one and so is the Bible I suppose.

Cool, this is a very rough draft so the end product will look quite different, i think i need to have a look at where the story actually leads before i write anymore