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2007-08-03 21:18:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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Slog hard .Produce great stories.Run to publishers and become famous :).All the best.

2007-08-04 20:34:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Because I am not a writer, I can only tell you what draws me into a book.

As it is in real life, there must be a trust connection. By this I mean that whether it is a fiction or historical book, you must believe it is logical and believable within the context of the story.

Secondly, I have to be able to in some way sympathize and relate to the characters; the good guy or the villain must be a complete person, they must have more than just their overriding characters and have personalities that are like real people are-more than one dimensional.

The next critical issue for me is that the story must totally transport me into it's atmosphere or the "suspension of disbelief" does not occur. In other words, for that moment I want to be there more than I am here in real life.

Finally, the writer has to do all this without using too many words, this for me is a killer, if the writer gets too verbose, I tend to flick to the end.

2007-08-03 21:37:38 · answer #2 · answered by lovesong 2 · 0 0

I think you should aim at being a great writer first by, like some answerers told you, keeping writing on and on. It is definitely unimaginable or unthinkable how arduous one should write to become great. You might read George Orwell's "Why I Write", one of his famous essays written in 1946, so that you might have some ideas on how to write and why. As far as I know from some of Orwell's biographies, he did not write to become great, rather he wrote to express himself to his readers and to the world on what and why he believed regarding some certain social or political issues. Moreover, you might hold a prestigious academic position as a professor in a good university first, then after writing some 10+ textbooks or novels or famous titles based on your field, the academic world or general scholars would keep an eye on you and start reading your literary works and, if you are lucky, you might be a Nobel Prize recipient for Literature and then you might become a great writer. In brief, being a great writer takes time with unique scholarship + readership worldwide.

According to "A History of Reading" by Alberto Manguel, St. Augustine wrote like a professor, therefore, he has long been regarded as a great writer with his "The Confessions".

2007-08-03 22:31:16 · answer #3 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0 0

like you i also want to be a greatest writer for that i'm
trying to think a incidence or an event or a thing like what is meaning of god or some thing
let anyone who beleave in god thinks that god is looking to them but i think that there is a god in us in form of our mind
think that you want to meet your friend wih great willing then just leave your thought in your mind dont think about that after your friend comes to meet you this is true i got an experience not once always try this you muct write this incidant in ur book you will become writer

2007-08-03 21:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

How ld are you ? You think you can match Hemingways or Robert Kenedys ?
There is only one way. Write. Shred and write again. And again and again. If you can produce more garbage than edited pages, and more edited pages than a few -try the test the result can be amazing- then you could become a writer.
The greatest ? "vanitas vanitatum...(omnis est vanitas)"

2007-08-03 21:26:44 · answer #5 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0 0

These are the things i fallow
*Use simple language
*Take your own experience into account
*Club your imagination with it
*plan before or edit BEFORE you write
*last but not the least "line which comes from the heart touches the other heart"

2007-08-06 18:53:06 · answer #6 · answered by bhagath 3 · 0 0

No short-cuts! It calls for hard work! To begin with, you have to read a lot, then have it in you, that talent, that burning desire to write, that ability to observe and do research, that flair to exaggerate and present fancy pictures and startling happenings in very readable terms, with catchy phrases and great vocabulary.....all that comes from hard work, and consuming desire to write! Good luck!

2007-08-03 23:03:59 · answer #7 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 0 0

Write, write and write again & again !

2007-08-03 21:48:40 · answer #8 · answered by suryaaag 4 · 0 0

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