bobothegoat

I'm working on what (hopefully) will be my first complete novel. Probably a short one. It's kind of weird though. He travels to a few different worlds on a search for a loop-hole around the rules of the dead. I'm having fun with it, though it probably won't be spectacular with it being my first (hopefully) complete novel.

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Jeffords

Right now, I'm in the middle of converting a series of short mystery stories I wrote three years into a full fledged set of interconnected novels. It's been quite a slow going with high school finals to deal with. The best part of it is that I get a chance to go back and realize how badly my writing skills were at one time.

pgoroncy

I'm working on one. It started out as a writing prompt, but I just couldn't stop.

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lisajane

I have an idea in my head for a novel. It's actually been in my head since February but it was very vague back then and the novel that I'm writing now was much more detailed as an idea. The first idea has been building inside my head though and I intend on writing it down as well as a complicated screenplay idea in one of the many notebooks I expect I'm getting for Christmas.

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aspire

i start them but i read them over (like the first page) and then think it's crap and start again. but today i started on one and really liked what i did with the beginning, i'm gonna take my time with it though so i can make it really good or to my perfection.

lisajane your like the first other australian i seen here where abouts in melbourne.

lisajane

I'm about half an hour south-east of the city.

I haven't read the first few pages of my novel in a long time because I KNOW they're crap. Once I'm finished, I'll go back and re-write them.

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Talia_Brie

*clears throat*

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A Nearly Perfect Circle

I started my first novel when I was a sophomore, two years ago, and finished the third about seven months later. All three were part of a single-novel trilogy type thing, fantasy genre, and needed serious revision, so I spent another six months revising them and they are now complete. I wrote the thing as I went w/o planning so it came out rough, but I fixed it in revision and I think it turned out pretty well. The three took about...a year and two months, I think.
Right now I'm working on the loose-sequel; keeping the fantasy theme but doing some serious planning because the entire thing is an extended metaphor for mankind, faith, and human similarities with the continuous theme also potrayed in the Tool song "lateralus". I've got 20 chapters of 27 so far, been working since last march but progress is exceedingly slow, and it is the first of two halves I hope to have done by the end of summer. I love writing novels, but they're only fun in revision, writing the first draft is tough. I'm going to college for screenwriting and directing though, so hopefully I will find yet another way to tell stories.
I have six or seven more ideas for novels after this one, but I doubt they'll all manifest; long stories seem good hypothetically and then fall through when given circumstance, but at least two I'm sure I'll indulge if I have the time; one about an invincible man and woman who fall in love simply because they can identify with one another, then realize they have no love, only similarities, and a series of circumstances revolving around a theme of balance in nature (i love themes), and another with no set characters, just the thought that everyone has a past they'd rather avoid, and what if that past started to manifest, perhaps in the form of a haunting shadow, probably horror, not sure yet. I encourage everyone to write a novel--you'll find more of yourself in it than anything else.

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lisajane

Don't worry Talia, I noticed more Australians.

It really never occurred to me that I could write and make something of it through high school. It was really only halfway through this year when I realised 'hey, I could make a career out of this. That could be kinda cool'.

I'm not looking forward to editing my novel, though. I'm having more fun writing it.

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ReverieMan

I'm working on one I thought was finished (53,000+ words), until I realized it's not long enough to warrant a sequel. So, I'm now adding what would have been a sequel to the original book. I'm expecting it will be 80,000 to 100,000 words when done.

I started a year and a half ago, and went through a six-month writer's block (did absolutely nothing on it). Then, I suddenly knew where to go with it.

It's disappointing, I'll admit, to realize it's not finished yet, but I think this is the best way to go. 53K words seems border-line for novel length, so adding what would have been a sequel should make it a bit more 'normal' in terms of word count. Besides, I'm curious to see what happens to Dr. Edwards and Ann. Guess I'd better finish it now!

Best.....ReverieMan

grartx

why is it for suckers? I'm trying to start a short story.

Gordash

Indeed, he seems thathe hasn't eabrated the point.

I however have never finished a novel, howevr I'm working on a trilogy an epilogue

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Clockwork

I'm working on a Big Project,

But it's only in the planning phases Right now.I'm trying to fuse some of the ideas I had from other novels that died out into my big project.
But I'm trying to write some short stuff first before
I go on to write my big project.

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lisajane

I'm working on my big project as well but I have a handful of little side projects as well that I work on.

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spirituous

I'm working on a mystery novel. And I will finish it if it kills me. Hopefully it won't come to that, but if it'll get the job done, I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

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