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I have a very good imagination. I very good with words. I try to write novels, but i cant stay focus on them. I come up with excellent stories and know how i want every thing to turn out and i get to like the 3 or 4 chapter and want to jump further into the book get to the good stuff or i just get to bored, i guess you can say i get impatient. Become an author is one of my career options. I think i be really good at writing urban books(my fav. to write) and i like doing for the like the first few chapters, What should i do. How can i stop doing this and actually finish a book. PLEASE GIVE ME ADVISE

Answer 1

I have the exact same problem as you. I'm currently writing four seperate stories, because each one is different and depending on my mood, depends which I work on. Two of them are over 200 pages each (on Microsoft word) one is around 150 pages and the last is just random parts of a story (I'm just beginning on the fourth)

I don't see anything wrong with jumping ahead and working on the interesting parts first, often I do that and once I'm kind of in my "writing zone" I can go back and fill in other parts with much more ease.

You might also consider writing shorter books, if you can't stay focused on them to write a long one. Sometimes, planning out a 500 page novel is just overwhelming, but if you plan to make a couple of shorter books, it feels like a much simpler task.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Well, first of all, you should write a book in your native language, which you may handle better than English. The above paragraph indicates that English is not your native tongue, and you need to do a lot of work before you can write novels in a language that you cannot speak.

In the second place, if you are going to write novels in your own language, you need to know how your book ends. If you don't know how the story ends, you cannot write to the end, so you are getting bored in the middle, because you don't have the discipline to understand the entire story from the beginning to the middle to the end.

Write about a girl. She is at a bar, smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes, has a fur coat, a great, fashionable hat with a wonderful feather, and is drinking scotch neat, with small waters. She will meet a friend, have violent and intellectual adventures, become warm, cold, in love, and desert the one she wants most, and in the end she will find a house with a porch and 2 kitchens, a long, impressive automobile, and a husband whom she has gladly stolen from the memory of his wife, who was evil and died painfully.

OK, there is a beginning, lots of middle, and an end. It needs a plot, some narrative, other stuff, and especially someone who understands human motivation and loves her as he loves words to create this novel.

If you can imagine the scene at the end, where she announces their pregnancy to her husband, then you can see how she got to that point from the Saloon.

If you cannot imagine this, you should not be writing novels. Perhaps you want to edit news releases. Or, become a painter of houses. Whatever.

Answer 3

Writing takes discipline. While for most it's a hobby, in order to make a living at it, it does require work, and isn't always fun to do.
If you're having a hard time with the discipline aspect of it, maybe start with some short stories. Create an outline of where you want to go with it. The beginning, middle, and end. List what characters you want to introduce, and what they will bring to the table.
It takes time, and lots of practice, and lots of discipline!
Good luck!

Answer 4

I know what you mean. Why not go ahead and write all the interesting parts first? Books do not have to be written in the order that they are read. Hope this helps a bit!

Answer 5

tape/voice recorder?