Gonna write a book.

Iloveshovels

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I want to write a book. I have done short stories before, but I wanna try writing a full book. I got a cool magic system in mind. But I don’t know how to exactly write a book with it.

Any tips? Tips for a new author?
 

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I AN A VETREAN AUTHOR! Trust me bro. I’ll send you in the dms eve try thing you’re gonna wanna want in a book. Why trust me? Because I am famous.

I’ll even make you a cover if you listen
 

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Try writing the blurb/summary first as a starting point. This will get you to start brainstorming the story and then you can create an outline (if you outline) from that. From there, you'll want to ask yourself what is the MC's goal, motivation, and then what is the overall conflict for the story.
 

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Use condom
Instruction unclear, still got gf preganatnt
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Jokes aside, my face is already the best birth control, there's no need for redundant things like condom and whatnot.
 

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What do you even want to hear? You just sit down and write. The same way you did with the shorts. Write a sentence at a time, a paragraph, a page or even a chapter in a sitting. For some it takes a day, for others a year, a decade, a lifetime but one day you'll have a novel at your hands. All the fancy stuff, like overhauling the characters, the outline of the summary, etc, etc is done on the side when and if you need those. Some write with a plan, others by intuition. This is art, there are no set rules for this. If you get ideas for something far ahead, you just take a note and place them far ahead in your manuscript. Ideally, you set a goal of 100, 200, 500, 1000, 5000... words a day and keep track of this. You can do it without a schedule too. It's not like you are getting paid, nor is it like you can properly control your creativity. As for editing and beta-reads, some do that simultaneously, others after the entire work is finished. Anyway, just sit down and freaking write!
 

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Because I had a kid, and I haven't updated my story in 3 years. That's how old the kid is. First, they suck on your nipples and you have to hold your breasts for them in a c-hold or a u-hold. If they don't suck on your nipples, you have to spend time mixing their formula, making sure it is the right temperature, and washing a zillion bottles. When they can hold their own bottle or breast, they also start grabbing pencils out of your hand when you try to write. Once they find out that your computer can play videos, they'll cry and scream until you give them half your screen for something that interests then, and then you'll never be able to concentrate with all that background noise. If you do get some time completely to yourself, you're too exhausted to do much more than complain about how hard parenting is.
 

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Because I had a kid, and I haven't updated my story in 3 years. That's how old the kid is. First, they suck on your nipples and you have to hold your breasts for them in a c-hold or a u-hold. If they don't suck on your nipples, you have to spend time mixing their formula, making sure it is the right temperature, and washing a zillion bottles. When they can hold their own bottle or breast, they also start grabbing pencils out of your hand when you try to write. Once they find out that your computer can play videos, they'll cry and scream until you give them half your screen for something that interests then, and then you'll never be able to concentrate with all that background noise. If you do get some time completely to yourself, you're too exhausted to do much more than complain about how hard parenting is.
Naw, wtf. Throw your child to the wolves, that’s how my Ma’ did it. Look at me, I came out Irish
 

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Have the ending of your story in mind when you start.
Keep and remember the sentence that summarizes your story the best.
Know what the spirit of your story is, and write to enhance that.
Keep in mind the experience you want to put the reader through. The order in which you write something has powerful effect.
If you love what you are writing, continue to the end and leave any rewriting or major fixing until after you finish writing the story.

Be as creative as you want to be.
 

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I wrote an outline for a wee-bit using your advice. Then used @Notadate ’s advice on refining it. I think it turned out good. I wrote about shovels.
Because I had a kid, and I haven't updated my story in 3 years. That's how old the kid is. First, they suck on your nipples and you have to hold your breasts for them in a c-hold or a u-hold. If they don't suck on your nipples, you have to spend time mixing their formula, making sure it is the right temperature, and washing a zillion bottles. When they can hold their own bottle or breast, they also start grabbing pencils out of your hand when you try to write. Once they find out that your computer can play videos, they'll cry and scream until you give them half your screen for something that interests then, and then you'll never be able to concentrate with all that background noise. If you do get some time completely to yourself, you're too exhausted to do much more than complain about how hard parenting is.
I still do not understand this. But, do not worry, I am far past my children making age.
 

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I wrote an outline for a wee-bit using your advice. Then used @Notadate ’s advice on refining it. I think it turned out good. I wrote about shovels.

I still do not understand this. But, do not worry, I am far past my children making age.
Atta boy! Believe in me, and you can make it far! *flexes*
 
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