Becoming a novelist

[Elvin]

That's why you have to write it down right when it comes to you

[Kira]

That's my problem, something will hit when I'm at work or somewhere where I dont have access to pen and paper.

[Sakura]

Excuse me but that is some poor company

[Elvin]

XD maybe it's all computerized

[Sakura]

Want a link to OpenOffice.org?

[Kira]

lol, I have open office, I just mean, I can't very well stop working and whip out a pad and start writing down ideas.

[agito_0291]

Sometimes the best writing comes when you don't have an idea and you just start writing but then again it gets really annoying when nothing comes out... leading me to a question. What is the hardest thing to do when you are writing? For me it's substance. I get all my ideas down but they feel like empty shells compared to where they are after countless drafts. What about you guys?

[Zeratul2k]

For me it would be details. My stories normally come to me like this:
1- main character goes from A to B
2- main character does C
3- ???
4- PROFIT!

And it's up to my writing hand to fill up the blanks and details of the surroundings and stuff like that, which can get (for me, at least) a little distracting from the story itself. This is why most of my stories tend to be fairly fast-paced...

[Elvin]

I have both yer problems >=O

My biggest problem is putting emotion into my characters. I'm editing and revising the entire story every time I finish a chapter to make it better. As this is the start of a series, it's success is necessary to pave the road for the rest, so I won't let the public eye see it until it's perfect

[oldwrench]

Well, every time I have an idea and write it down, it just doesn't seem nearly as good written down as it did in my imagination. It must be that writing misses o much of the picture you have in your mind.