I want to write a book!?

Question

with my ideas and parts of my life but i dont want it to be my life i want to make another character with my story?! any help on how to start i have a ruff story line? xx

Answer 1

Hi:

I'm an author of 3 novels: Whale Song, Divine Intervention and The River. And I know about writing about life! :)

Whale Song is the story of a woman haunted by her past and by her mother's death and the mystery that surrounds it. Many people who've read it have asked me whether the story is my life story.

It isn't my life at all, but there is so much of me in the novel! :) I took a character, asked "what if?" and then used my own childhood experiences to develop the storyline. :)

Since the story is told as a flashback moving forward to present day, I had to get my head wrapped around what it was like to be 11...13...16 again. (OK, it's been a few years! lol)

Since the story takes place on Vancouver Island and I grew up on the Queen Charlotte Islands, its was easy to slip back into what life was like, especially with the strong native influences and my own love of killer whales.

I believe that the best stories have a piece of the author's soul--it's your reaction to the events in your novel...so there are characters that will be 'you' ...in SOME ways.

So, write your story, follow the plot...and ask yourself 'what would I do in this situation?' And then 'what would my character do?' because sometimes there will be differences.

My other novels have far less of me than Whale Song. You can fictionalize anything, change things somwhat--after al...YOU are the writer! :)

Check out my novel at http://www.whalesongbook.com and my others at http://www.cherylktardif.com

Just keep writing! :)

Cheryl Kaye Tardif, author

Answer 2

If you don't want the main character to be really you, then take incidents from other people's lives and apply them to the character you already know. That is, the one that would be you if you ever got into those kinds of situations. Now, how would you react in such circumstances? And how about the people around you -- or the fictional people who are adapted from the people around you.

The best stories are pretty ordinary people getting thrust into extraordinary situations, and handling them in a way that is ultimately a triumph. For extraordinary situations, you need to read a lot of news and other factual materials, but don't adopt too much of any one person's story. Just the basic outline: Well this one had her house burn down and spent two years discovering that it was arson, and it was -- well, who did do it?

Another person found herself standing on a train platform with absolutely no memory of what she was doing there or why. How does she cope with amnesia, and how does she eventually get her memory back. A third one is fighting depression because of a variety of problems, and might even contemplate doing herself in, except that for WHAT unexpected reason, she begins to hope.

Answer 3

Just think of another character, and make something extraordinary happen to that person, or something like that, but base it on your life mainly. That's the only thing I can think of right now. Good luck.

Answer 4

write down all the eventfull things that happened in your life then write down what you would have prefered to happen in that situation including some classy comebacks on your part!!!

Answer 5

Good Luck. I hope it becomes a best seller!

Answer 6

my life on another perspective.
sounds really nice
:)