I Am Writing a Novel

I recently received a contract to publish my book. It went live February 14th under Inknbeans Press.. Tomorrow night, April 10th, at 9:30 pm eastern time I'll be doing a live podcast with Jeff Bushman on http://www.GoingBeyondRadio...

It seems that many writers, new and established ones, often face the same drawbacks, i.e. motivation issues, lost of focus, time limitation etc., and of course the indecisiveness of the kinds of topics or tenures for their write.
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I've been working on my novel for over 10 years now. it started as a dream when i was a young girl. I remember seeing these angry red eyes glowering at me from the dark. The figure didn't speak, but there was a feeling of malice around...

Prologue
I stood in the door way watching the horrifying creature suck the living life out of my mother and father. They both hung helplessly off the side of the bed showing no sign of life. I saw blood, puddles and...

I can remember when I was in the 8th grade that I started writing poetry. (I still do), then I started writing scripts. I would cast my classmates as characters in my "movies" and lastly, I started writing books. All psycho-thrillers...

I just got started on another story the other day, and so far I really like it.  I am doing that now.  The only thing is I am basing out of a city I am unfamiliar with for the most part, even though I've been there...

I started writing at a very early age. I think that my first short story was written when I was in first grade. We were instructed to write a story to fit on a construction paper cut-out of a rabbit. I don't remember all the details...

so, i started working on aovel way back maybe two years ago. Unlike the project that i had started and botched from around ages thirteen to fourtheen, and the second novelt hat i wrote, which was actually very well-told (but had a plot...

Research, research, research- sometimes I feel like I do more of that than actually writing. This particular novel I started last September, shortly after my younger sister moved back to the parents place after the summer. I had this...

I am writing a book. Here is the first chapter.

The new girl was pretty. Not normal new girl pretty more beautiful. Her bright red hair was so curly it was perfect. But, her most beautiful featre was her deep green eyes. They were...

This story started eleven years ago. I went through a time where I had witnessed shall we say a lot of trauma and began suffering from nightmares and eventually night terrors. The therapist suggested that when I had these dreams...

I am going out today. While I am out, I hope that I take the time to sit in the bookstore with coffee and read something that is cunning enough to capture my interest. If I do, I will buy it and carry it home lovingly and I will read...

Warning: Some violence. It is a vampire novel after all. Please let me know what you think!I awoke ravenous. The dark was oppressive, yet somehow I could see clearly.  I could also smell the aroma of something, something enticing...

No one seems to give the right advice for actually getting writing done. Ironically books are horrible for this. Oh, they might tell ya how to use a period or a question mark, or what a verb is. They might even tell ya what conflict and...

You’ve got my tongue,
You beast, give it back!

Let go of my hands
I need these fingers!

Get out of my head
Be gone, I’m through with you!

I’m going to do it you know?
I’m strong now

I’m just going to let it fly!
I’m...

I've had a story idea brewing in my head for a while, and a few weeks ago I finally decided to follow up on that thought and begin researching and plotting out my story.

My story is set during the Civil War on a tobacco plantation in...

Hand write their stuff? I can't seem to produce anything sitting in front of a computer. So I hand write everything in a Moleskine and then go back and type it up. Trouble is, I edit while I'm typing. And I edit. And I edit some more...

Chapter 1
The Beginning
I can do this! It’s not that hard just… walk up to him and say, “Hey can I talk to you? I have been watching you and I can’t help but need to talk…” Ugh no not like that! Way to sound like a stalker...

Writing a novel is so much hard work. I don't think a lot of people realise how many drafts and hundreds and thousands of hours people spend on perfecting their stories; but that's just it -- perfection doesn't exist. While I admit...