Comments on: One Novel Syndrome

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By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:10:14 +0000

You need to block those plots. Since you are not a strong plotter and I find a lot people do not like to do too much work ahead, try looking at your book like the DVD sleeve on a movie and list one title/sentence for each thing that must happen. Note Lord of the Rings DVD sleeve as model. This really works for a lot of people.

Example:

Gets Lost in a Maze is the next to last title on my DVD sleeve. I didn’t really know how it would happen or the details or what the characters’s goals would be, but I knew they would get lost in that maze before the ending.

And don’t worry about that one book thingie. Everyone author does that some. You..s is borrowing trouble. LOL! Hugs.

By: Susan B.

Susan B. — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:41:58 +0000

I have more syndromes than you could shake a stick at. Maybe this exact one isn’t among them simply because I often lack the knowing that I have any one polished novel worth reading in me. I have finished one first draft and am 80% through another. And also because, while I will draw on my own experience, my writing is no longer inspired by events in my own life which I think is often a component of ONS.

You just have to sit your butt down and make yourself do it the same way you make me do it. It will come to you.

Seventh Circle is an awesome title. Right now, Flashpoint seems to better suit the mood of it for me, but see where it goes.

By: Cliff Burns

Cliff Burns — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:58:54 +0000

I just quoted Brit novelist Will Self in a posting on my blog in which he states that the internet gives many people the notion that they have a novel in them…and it’s a very much mistaken notion. One must steel oneself to write when there is no inspiration, no purpose to putting words on paper, when overcome by futility, when lying on your deathbed…writers WRITE. It ain’t fair but it’s the truth…