I am dramatic person that has the potential to spew out a best selling fiction novel-how do i do it?

Question

One of my goals in life is to write a book.I believe that I would be a great writer and people would be interested. I have many life experiences, other's experiences, and a twisted and dramatic imagination at times. How do I start such a gigormous project of writing a book. I would like to write one fiction and one non-fiction masterpiece. My problem is I have so many ideas that I kind of get lost in them and kind of forget about them.

Answer 1

The world is full of people who are "gonna write a book one day". Most never get started, and those who start, most never get finished. You have to make yourself a firm promise not to be in those groups. That means you need to write at least 500 words every day, even when you're not feeling up to it. Lack of long-term committment is a major reason for failure for most potential writers. All the advice above is good.

Answer 2

A non-fiction "How To" book is the easiest sell now days, but if you have a urge for fiction perhaps the following advice would help:

1. Outline your story's plot.
2. Write a biographical sketch of each of the characters in your story so that those characters will always have the same types of actions and voices throughout your story.
3. Do the research. Get to know the time, place, setting of your story.
4. Once you've fleshed out your story, write a rough draft. Not an R.D. of the in tire story but only of the first chapter.
5. Rewrite the RD several times until you are comfortable with it.
6. Buy a copy of "The Writer's Marketplace" and find several publishing houses that might have an ongoing interest in new "unsolicited" submissions of fiction.
7. Send out Querie letters (check in "The Writer's Marketplace" for examples).
8. Be willing to wait, sometimes for months, for a reply.
9. If you are lucky enough to get a positive reply, your will more than likely be asked to supply your first chapter and a detailed plot summary.
9. Try not to be frustrated. Publishing House editors are very discriminating readers, and thousands of good manuscript submissions are not replied to, and many are simply not read after their first page.
10. Your submission will more than likely be turned down. Be persistent. Submit to other houses.
11. In the meantime you might have other story ideas to flesh out and send out. And so the process starts again.
12. Join a writer's society. There are many on the Internet. You will get a lot of great advice from folks that have gone through the world that you are about to enter and who are quite willing to help you.
13. If the feeling is still strong, don't give up. "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", one of the best selling novels of all time, was passed up by over 50 publishing houses before it fell into the lap of an editor willing to give it a chance.

Hope this helps. I know where you are coming from, for I am a published author and have been exactly where you are in regards to my first published book.

Answer 3

You sit down and write. Sorry, no magic formulas. You write and write until you have something to look at and revise. You then take off your creative hat and put on your editor hat and look at the writing and decide what should be in, be expanded, discarded, revised, etc. You organize it into the best format you can.

For fiction, start with a character-- put him/her into a problem, throw more problems at the character and then see what he/she does. Plot is conflict and resolution of that conflict. It's the opportunity to get to know a character.

Once you've written and revised and edited and cleaned up the work, put it into correct manuscript format, go look up publishers in something like the Writer's Market (you can find it at your local library) and follow the instructions for submission.

Books only get written by putting your rear end in the chair and writing. It has to get out of your head and onto the paper. It's okay if it isn't good on first try (that is what revision is for). But first and foremost, you have to write.

As for having too many ideas, pick one you can stand to be stuck with for a year or so while you learn to write. Pick one and then put the other ideas away for right now. You can write them later. Now sit down and write.

Good luck.

Good books on writing include:

Beginnings, Middles and Ends (Nancy Kress)
Writing the Fiction Synopsis by Pam McCutcheon.

Answer 4

Well, I enjoy writing as well, and I'm working on a book of fairy tales. My main focus is the age group between 20-40. I can't write an entire book; new ideas come up, and I just drop another. If you have so many ideas, write a book with lots of short stories! It's fun, and you don't get so tired of one idea because you're constantly writing something new.
I carry a small notebook around in my back pocket, or a piece of paper, and write down ideas as I come up with them.
Don't limit yourself; I thought I could only write fantasy novels, but I've 'expanded my horizon', you could say.

Answer 5

Start by taking a short story writing course at your community college or even a fiction writing course if they have it

Answer 6

Me too. I'm still in 6th grade but I've always enjoyed writing short stories. Try to exaggerate and add many details. Don't be lenghthy with the story. Some people wouldn't tend to read it.

Answer 7

Literary agent. Get one. Sending out your ideas or book proposals directly to publishing houses is a waste of time. You need to get an agent to pitch your ideas to the book publishers. Yet to land a literary agent is as tough as to get a book published.

Answer 8

Just do it. and don't stop to revise what you've written a million times or you'll never finish it.