how do you write a book?

Answer 1

I personally prefer to use a computer.

Answer 2

take pen and paper and start writing. Or a type writer, or a computer. First off you need an idea. The run with it, or go at a snails past and plot out the idea and then run with it. Writing itself takes a lot of practise so don't be overly disappointed if your first book isn't the great masterpiece you had envisioned. I've been writing for four years now and I still don't have my masterpiece.

just put pen to paper, or fingers to keys and start your story. Good luck, and God bless.

Answer 3

You should start writing by writing what you enjoy reading ficiton or non fiction. Research your topics, and of course always use MS Word thats the main word processing program that publishers use. Follow writers or authors guidelines if you have selected a publisher all ready if not just write from within yourself. Use your imagination, we all can come up with unique ideas to write a story. I'd suggest that you get hold of The Writer's Market Book might be a little costly if you buy it therefore I'd suggest that you go to your local library and get a copy. You may also search on Google for publishers looking for manuscripts. One little warning, do not pay anyone to publish book! Unless you have money and want to self publish it yourself that is another route. It will cost you money even if you don't have to pay much upfront to self publish its the marketing and publicity that is costly. If you want a list of publishers you may email me or find one on http://www.anthonypiers.com website.

Answer 4

One word at a time.

There are many books out there by published authors on writing. I recommend Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird". Stephen King, Elizabeth Berg and Natalie Goldsmith also have good books on writing.

Check out the National Novel Writer's Month website below.

Answer 5

Let's put that question to some of those who did (and still do) it best ...

As sports columnist "Red" Smith once explained, "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." or how about these ways ...

Elie Wiesel: Quotations about Writing
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Henry David Thoreau: Quotations about Writing
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Sharon O'Brien: Quotations about Writing
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

Sholem Asch: Quotations about Writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Jules Renard: Quotations about Writing
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.

Stephen Leacock: Quotations about Writing
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Jack London: Quotations about Writing
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Quotations about Writing
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury


So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948


The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin


Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow


A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy


And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath


If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison


And lastly, I believe that it was Oscar Wilde who said that the way to write was to start by applying your backside to a chair. .

That just about says it all. Pax - C

Answer 6

Mostly, you just write. Every writer has his/her own process. Some think better when they're sitting on the floor, others do their best thinking in the shower. And don't be afraid to edit, edit, edit. If you plan to do this for a career, you'd better get used to editing because more than half of everything you write is going to be changed in some way.

Answer 7

The easy task is writing the book. The hard task is getting it published. Depends what you are writing about. First of all, know your subject well. Research and develop! The best discovery, the discoverer makes for himself. Stick to basics! Who, what, when, where, why, and how is the guidepost leading to the right road to follow.

Answer 8

Well,
First you need a plot or a story line. Then you need a begging, a middle, and an ending. Don't worry if you can't name your main character(s). Bounce some ideas off of trusted friend, when you've got writers block (It's what I do). And, then the hard part of all this, getting published. Don't worry if you don't get published right away. Most REALLY good authors never do.
Hope I've been helpful.
Sincerely,
Mekkah

Answer 9

Everything has already been said or written under the sun. Yet, if you feel that you can say something to your readers that would not be plagiarism or re-told story, then you can start to think that you need to write a book.

Answer 10

Search out your local libraries and find a writers/critique group. No one starts out writing best sellers. Well, almost no one, anyway.
And don't ask your mom or the rest of your family about your work. Of course they love it-they're your family. You've got to get people reading it who have no vested interest in stroking your ego. Get "Stein on Writing". My opinion-it's the best book on writing out there.

Answer 11

Let your fingers flow....
Build the book in your head first...make a beginning a middle and an ending...

What I did, was just opened microsoft word and started typing..and I still cant stop.