I haven't seen this one, sorry. But it sounds like a great idea and a great seller. I had been working on something like that when I was younger, but it never worked out. Maybe I'll do something more like an autobiography. I wish you luck, Ambition.

Well, I hope that your book works out and that you are able to get it finished and hopefully published.

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that has happened to me too. i'm trying to write another novel (fantasy) but i go so in depth with the cultures and places of my land that i can't think of a plot that will sustain it all. *laughs*

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I've run into the exact same problem. You get so caught up in inventing the details of your fantasy realm that the plot becomes secondary, and in a good story, the plot is never secondary. I think what it all means is that J.R.R. Tolkien was superhuman. There's no other way to explain it.
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Lol, same here. I actually draw up maps, chart out political structures, write up historical details, and go in depth as to my characters' races and personal qualities (at least I'm not crazy enough to attempt entire languages, I don't have the mental capacity). By the time I'm done with all that I've thought of something else! I always do fantasy or sci-fi stories because they're at least easier than researching a modern or historical (eek!) one.

That is an awesome idea. In fact, i've actually been storming up ideas to do that also. More power to you!...that's great.

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That's a cool idea, sudha. I'm pretty sure madpuffinkeeper's already doing it in her dreams. Something about djmagnusa being an alien.

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Shuddup! heh.

EDIT: He was not an alien. He was a resistance leader.

Be exited. I have begun to write "A Trip Down the Fox." *Has Party*

That's a cool idea, sudha. I'm pretty sure madpuffinkeeper's already doing it in her dreams. Something about djmagnusa being an alien.

what if we write a book on YN and some made up tales about all of us..that wud be fun..

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Originally posted by Ikki14Reed:
No, mine are all set in worlds I create...

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Originally posted by northstar316:
Mine are all in the retro-future, after all our civilization collapses, and the people have to start from scratch, so sometimes, places like New York and Washington (known as Yon-Yok, The Ruins at Yok, and Chaplinossis, The Temple-Haven, respecively) will come into the stories. Those parts are always fun, nothing like creeping people out when the main character finds the slab that says Wall Street in the middle of a forested ruin.

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You guys are far more creative than I, at least regarding setting.

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I want to read your book.

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aw, thanks. Maybe I will Put The Dash to Freedom, and Trip Down the Fox in the Literature section when I finish. I would like to have somebody read them, other than teachers...

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oh really??? well, thats good... but yes, you still are a F as what you said...it shows in your attitude anyway... and thanks for the advice also...

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Actually, jamaica, I am a ***** to you because you deserve it. You see me being nice to all the other YNers (except morons and haters), now don't you?

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Mine are all in the retro-future, after all our civilization collapses, and the people have to start from scratch, so sometimes, places like New York and Washington (known as Yon-Yok, The Ruins at Yok, and Chaplinossis, The Temple-Haven, respecively) will come into the stories. Those parts are always fun, nothing like creeping people out when the main character finds the slab that says Wall Street in the middle of a forested ruin.

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I want to read your book.

Mine are all in the retro-future, after all our civilization collapses, and the people have to start from scratch, so sometimes, places like New York and Washington (known as Yon-Yok, The Ruins at Yok, and Chaplinossis, The Temple-Haven, respecively) will come into the stories. Those parts are always fun, nothing like creeping people out when the main character finds the slab that says Wall Street in the middle of a forested ruin.

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You don't assume wrong if you set it in modern-day, typical American towns or cities. Then, everybody knows what you're talking about. This would explain why all of my stories are set in modern-day, typical American towns or cities.

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No, mine are all set in worlds I create...

Wow, it looks like we're all aspiring writers here. I feel so generic, as one of the first things people who know me classify me as is "the writer." I'm near finishing my second draft of a story I've been working on since August that I really think is pretty good. Maybe I'll show it to some of you it when I'm done. Maybe.

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Hopefully, i would get to finish the novel.

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As others have said, even if the basic plot for the story is very good, you'll probably want to re-write what you've written so far. I understand what you've said about cherishing old work (I do the same, it really is a blast to look at crap I wrote eight years ago), but a story where the first half is childishly hysterical and the second half is serious and meaningful would be a bit odd. Unless, of course, you just to intend to write it for your own personal pleasure. In that case, by all means, go ahead.

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it'd be kinda strange to write a book on the philosopy of a blonde if i wasn't one...

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No it wouldn't. But if you're that hung up on it, I recommend bleach.

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that has happened to me too. i'm trying to write another novel (fantasy) but i go so in depth with the cultures and places of my land that i can't think of a plot that will sustain it all. *laughs*

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I've run into the exact same problem. You get so caught up in inventing the details of your fantasy realm that the plot becomes secondary, and in a good story, the plot is never secondary. I think what it all means is that J.R.R. Tolkien was superhuman. There's no other way to explain it.

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Originally posted by Ikki14Reed:
I'm exactly the opposite of you three. I don't go enough into the culture and what not of the setting. I just assume if I know it, they know it. And usually, I assume wrong.

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You don't assume wrong if you set it in modern-day, typical American towns or cities. Then, everybody knows what you're talking about. This would explain why all of my stories are set in modern-day, typical American towns or cities.

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Re-write it. I started writing my first book at ten, and when I re-read it after I stopped writing in it for a few years, I nearly cried at how stupid it was. Keep your plot, but it's very probably you'll have to greatly edit it.

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I dont think i will ever call my work stupid no matter if i wrote it when i was just in 4th year... Every piece i have made in my life, i would always treasure... i would probably laugh because if i read what i wrote many years ago, they would sound corny but i would never think it stupid but yeah, i would re-write it sometime.

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Yes, jamaica, I may be a **** in your eyes, but I am also a writer...

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oh really??? well, thats good... but yes, you still are a F as what you said...it shows in your attitude anyway... and thanks for the advice also...

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Kind of. My books are more histories, though, at the moment, besides the short stories I have about them. So I am more interested in the cultures of the people who inhabit the different regions of the world at the time the book is set. My best story, though, is set around the legendary ruin of Byzantinea, in the modern day, but there are only hints to what had transpired there. Mebey I will post the story one day, too.

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So you write historical fictions?

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haha. I think you have on of those bomb books... that you need to keep everything in detail and every single thing you can think of for your book you write down. My first book was like that. I wrote a smaller book simply about the place where the fist book was, wrote pages of the laws of this place, made drawings of the creatures and describe them, even designed my own weapons for the soldiers, etc

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Kind of. My books are more histories, though, at the moment, besides the short stories I have about them. So I am more interested in the cultures of the people who inhabit the different regions of the world at the time the book is set. My best story, though, is set around the legendary ruin of Byzantinea, in the modern day, but there are only hints to what had transpired there. Mebey I will post the story one day, too.

I'm exactly the opposite of you three. I don't go enough into the culture and what not of the setting. I just assume if I know it, they know it. And usually, I assume wrong.

that has happened to me too. i'm trying to write another novel (fantasy) but i go so in depth with the cultures and places of my land that i can't think of a plot that will sustain it all. *laughs*