Evega

Then put your great storyline on hold until you're good enough for your dreams for it, and think of something else for your first novel.

That's what I'm doing. I have an incredible idea for a major novel I want to write (a series, actually), but I know that the project is too ambitious for my current skills. So rather, I have lots of basic planning done, and it's set aside until I'm good enough to do what I want with it.

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Harlequin

You can't ruin a story. If you wrote it, you can always rewrite it. The only bad stories are the ones that are never told.

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Shamrock

Hi everyone, major newbie here.

ummm, i never get the problem of writing, deleting then rewriting, don't get me wrong, i used to, especialy at the biggining of a novel. but now the technique i use is great,

recenty i started writing a novel that began with me in prison, but i couldbn't get it write, i had to keep on going over it 'cos it didn't sound write,

so i went and slowly made myself a big mug of coffee (i find that sometimes the biggest problem is that if the frame of mind, or even the momentum of the writing is not running right, just sepparate it from the task, if even just a few minutes, then give it another go), then sat down at my PC and closed my eye's,

i visualised my self in the prison cell, slowly packing my bag's as i look around at what was my home, my life for the last four year's, throwing a sly glance at my "roomie" for lack of a better word, as he stares blankly at his tiny portible TV, i slowly peeled the photo's from the wall, the photo's that i had stuck there with the grimy prison toothpaste four years ago when they ment something to me, but now their just painful memories of the life that i had, the life that i was, my wife and child, the main reason that i came to this godforsaken place, are now gone, it doesn't do me justice to be getting out today, for i've nothing to go out to, happiness is for the free, and even though i'll be free from these wall's, i'll never be free from these photo's....

sorry for dragging on their a bit, but you get my meaning, just try to imigine yourself in the body of your character (which might be difficult if your a dragon or something) and see if it comes to you, give it a go, and tell me if it work's.

Y.F.I.S
D.C.