My novel writing.

[MichelleHW101]

I never over think anything because I have found that each section or scene that I write eventually connects itself.  Like the section I wrote today connected itself with a section I wrote a few days ago and an idea I had last week.  Had I actually tried to plot out each section and force a connection I doubt any of the pieces I wrote would flow smoothly together as they do now.

[MichelleHW101]

It may sound strange to someone who is not a writer but my stories always write themselves.  Of course during the editing part the pages literally bleed red but while I am writing I never truly know what is going to happen until I write it.  Sure I have a basic idea for a story but generally the story writes itself and I am amazed when I read it how well it truly all worked out.  I think its also werd how when I write the story I am in the mindset as the writer but when I read the story I have the mindset of a reader and literally have to stop myself and go, “wow, I wrote that.” 

[MichelleHW101]

It’s was so amazing the other day when I started writing.  I had to look up a few things for my novel and usually researching something takes me hours to find because I have to got through pages without really finding what I’m looking for.  That includes being as specific as possible.  This time I immediately found everything I wanted right there in either the first or second entry.  Amazing.  That was definitely a good day.

[MichelleHW101]

Just got The World of Wizards for the seventh day of Hannukah and I have to say that I truly have enjoyed it.  I’ve been reading it every day and already have a segment for my novel (I’m in book 2 now) that I would not have otherwise had if I did not read the book.  I am glad I got it.  I went into C&W used books and thought as I always do that there must be a reason I am in here.  I can honestly say it was to get that book.

[MichelleHW101]

I never have a set ‘thing’ I do for when I write.  I can be anywhere doing anything.  One time I was brushing my teeth when the words came.  Another time I was coming out a food store.  that one really suppirsed me because it was a fight sceene.  Who honestly thinks up a sword one-on-one fight after they’ve come out of a practaly diserted food store five days after new years?  I guess only a write would.

[MichelleHW101]

Sometimes I get regerts.  I mean I know I was meant to be a writer but whenever I am asked what I do and I respond that I am a fiction writer they ask why I don’t have a real job.  Then I begin to wonder if I should get a real job.  Then my mind recycles back to my current novel and I end up writing another section for it.  Then I’m left thinking if I wasn’t meant to write why would my mind work that way?  Why would I come up with sections for my novel if my mind wasn’t hard wired to create stories?

[MichelleHW101]

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) once said, “Things come to me in driblets and when the driblets come I have to work hard to make them into something coherent.”  That is exactly how I write my novel.  I would be doing something totally unrelated to writing and all of a sudden words start poping into my head. Then I have to rush to find a pen and paper to get it down before I lose them.  Sometimes they flow into the last piece I have finished typing while other times they are for a later part in the novel.  what always amases me is that each driblet I come up with no matter where it belongs in the novel always belongs to the current novel I am working on.  I never think about another story, never get side tracked.  I think that’s a good thing but it just gets me every time that these driblets always know the current work and only come when they belong to that particular story. 

[MichelleHW101]

I love reading my novels just as much as I enjoy writing them.  I think that is the way it should be.  I always write something that I would enjoy reading because I am writing for my kind of person.  My mind always switches off when I read so when I read something that I have read I get blown away where I’m left thinking, “wow, I wrote that.”  It’s really an awesome feeling.  But then it’s like Alice Walker said, “If you write long enough, you will be a healthy person.  That is if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money or what will make fame.”

[trucktina]

I wonder, though, if there would be an internal conflict for a writer-- if what they wrote made a lot of money or became famous through writing. Would it lead to writer's block, since you'd feel you have to equal or surpass that success the next time?

[MichelleHW101]

I always write when the words comes.  That could be at any moment.  I recall once I was brushing my teeth when i had to stop and grab some paper.  I don't know how other writers do it but I have to keep a small pad and pen around me at all times.  I can't ever force the words to come but when they do it's just like magic!

[MichelleHW101]

I always read my work as a reader never as a writer.  I have almost as much enjoyment at reading my work as I did writing it.  Sometimes as I read it just blows my mind.  I have to take a few steps back and say, "wow I wrote that." 

[KSimonetti92]

When I write if I get stumped, I write on a different document about what I wish my day would have been like then try to incorporate that into my original story.

[MichelleHW101]

I recently created an occult group that quotes religious text from their temple book.  I decided to use the Book of Mormons as a reference for the quotations rather than going with the usually Bible quotes.  What amazed me the most was whenever I needed a quote I simply opened the Book of Mormons and somewhere on the page I opened to was a quote I could use.  Now if that’s not divine intervention I don’t know what is.

[JediJohnnie]

I always read my work as a reader never as a writer.  I have almost as much enjoyment at reading my work as I did writing it.  Sometimes as I read it just blows my mind.  I have to take a few steps back and say, "wow I wrote that." 

I feel the same.Many times I read what I've written and feel a great satisfaction with it.Which is nice,since I can also be my own most severe critic.

[Azanne07]

1 day ill write a novel