May I borrow your creativity? I wanna write a book, fictional, but I have no clue what to write about!?

Question

Here's the thing. I love writing. Anything, poetry, short stories, songs, whatever. My next goal is to write a novel, but I have the worst problem possible, I dont know what to write about. I dont know if I should write a murder mystery, or a girly book, but I swear not to write like anything gossipgirlesh. I love stuff about vampires, werewolves, and other superhuman things. But i want to write something new, something that doesnt resemble any book on the shelves at Borders. So, I ask, WHAT SHOULD I WRITE ABOUT?

Answer 1

Okay, so you have the same problem I once faced.

First, decide what type of book you like to read the most and do read the most.

Then pick 5of your favorite books on the same genre and decide (this is the most difficult part), why you liked it, and be honest to yourself.

Pick a topic that you will like to read about, trust me that is the only way you'll write a good novel.

Then brainstorm and write down everything comes to your mind. Then try to make a storyline out of it.

Now you have everything you need to write about. Just pick up the pen and write down your story.

Good luck

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Answer 2

some writers have said there are only 3 basic plots - that it is only the details that vary. so whatever you write will have something in common with several books at Borders - that doesn't mean it is the same.


personally, i think there are more basic plots, but it really IS the details that make us see one book as different from the next.

Personally, i suggest you write something you would be interested in reading.

Do you know about Bunnicula, the Vampire Bunny? It is a real book, and lots of fun. It seemed to me it opens up a whole new potential area of mystery/vampire/monster genre.

Answer 3

A good author can write about absolutely nothing and make it entertaining. A poor author can concoct the most intricate and clever plot in the world and make it dull and confusing. It's not really about the setting, or the plot, or the characters... it's about the WRITING.

So if you want to write a novel, I say just start writing. If you lose interest in what you are writing about, you can stop and start writing something else. If you start in the wrong place or write too much about something that turns out to be irrelevant, you can change that too. Pencils have erasers. That's the beauty of editing - you don't have to produce ANYTHING perfect on the first try.

Answer 4

Agents and publishers alike say the same thing--WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT. In my case, where I haven't done that much traveling, etc, I do TONS of research on a favorite subject (I like military history, for instance, so I have researched World War II--Pacific, Korean War, and VietNam. I've even subscribed to magazines about them). I then have my characters become soldiers, etc. If you write something set in a different era of time--the Old West, for instance--be sure you have the characters dress in the styles known then, use the terminology or slang terms of the time, etc. Remember, too, you can't have a Harley Davidson motorcycle in a story set in the 1600's. :) That is, unless it's a science fiction-time travel story.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Here's a short plot summary of a book I wanted to write, but after writing the first page considered it the worst composition in the history of the English language (which happens to me quite a lot).

In the beginning, Danny recives a phone call from Grace telling him Nick died from falling down the stairs. IHe never talks to her again. Then, flashback: Danny is a thirty-five year-old who drinks often, and is rather a quiet, understanding personality. Then he moves in to an apartment in Grace’s building. Grace is a young, thin woman who lives alone in a room on the third apartment of her five story building in NYC. When they both go out one night, drink, and sleep together, Grace cannot face being alone with him in the same building and rents two other stories to Lorrie, a depressed and black runaway mother-to-be, and Nick, an old, cheerful man. Nick starts paying Danny to take out the dog once a day because Nick is too tired to get out of the building, and they become friends. Then Lorrie had to go to the hospital, but it was a still birth, and the Grace discovers Lorrie is actually only seventeen--she's a teenaged mother and too young to rent a place on her own. Grace is furious. The next morning they discover Lorrie killed herself in her room. When Danny leaves the building, the only two left are Grace and Nick. A year later, Danny recieves the phone call.

It's a little cliched, but I hope it's good. It didn't work for me at all, and I am too tired to write another beginning. You can word off it or continue with it, do whatever you want, it doesn't matter to me. Just write it to me if you actually started writing it and actually doing a good job.

Change the names, personalities, whatever, I don't mind.

Here's my beginning:

It was the middle of the night in the first night of summer when Grace called my apartment for the first time in seven months. With a bottle of beer in one hand and the remote in the other I picked up the phone to hear Grace’s trembling voice saying, “Daniel—is that you?—Daniel, Nick died. Nick died. Nick died.”
It was a shock to hear her speaking to me, but even more of a shock to hear her repeating “Nick died” in my ear. It was helpful because the first time I heard her saying it I couldn’t believe it. Then she said, “He fell—just yesterday—fell down the stairs and they took him to the hospital, but he was in a coma and died the next morning. Poor Nick. Nick died! He died!”
“Grace, I…” the phone quivered in my hand. Suddenly the TV seemed so far away, her voice seemed so unnatural to my ear. I dropped my head to the pillow and breathed into the phone. “I haven’t talked to you in years…and now you tell me he died? Just…just yesterday?”
“Dan…now it’s only us two. Us two left now, Daniel,” she coughed.
I didn’t cry. But I breathed in with sadness, and then I whimpered, “Only me.” Grace didn’t hear it, but I wish she did. I wish she could see she wasn’t in any part of it. She wasn’t his friend, not Lorrie’s friend, not my friend; she was just a lonesome girl, a selfish woman. All around me, things moved in and out. I thought about Lorrie, about her baby…about Nick. The way he laughed whenever I laughed, his senility, his sunny side up egg. Grace is wrong. There are no two. Once there were three, but now there’s only one.
“His funeral’s tomorrow. It’s here. I don’t know who’s coming, except I know I am, Dan! And you should come too! Dan, I can’t do this alone! Bury him by myself! Please? Daniel?”
“I can’t fly to New York now. I simply can’t, I got a meeting tomorrow, and on such a short notice…”


During the second half, the reader should notice Grace's flaws. Although it shouldn't be too obvious, just that she is a lonely woman who can't live with other people. They must also be sympathetic to her, too.

Hope you like it!!!

Answer 7

Write a book about an author who has writers block, so she goes on Yahoo Answers. She meets a person online who gives her ideas about a murder mystery......the kicker is....he is really a murderer....the rest is up to you.....

Answer 8

You are the author, dear. You cannot borrow a person's creativity. If you dont feel inspiried to write a story right now, then this isnt the right time for you. Write when the inspiration hits you. Pax- C

Answer 9

Think... girls, monsters, murder. Put it all togther and! A girl who turns into a monster and can't tell best friend. Someone murders her best friend, and she starts on a journey to find the only person she ever told her secret to's (her bff) murderer... Easy!

Answer 10

If you don't know I can't tell you.

You write, it's that simple.

They either like what you write or they don't

If so you write something else.