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Cpat92 On May 16, 2021
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Lauderhill, Florida
#1New Post! Jun 20, 2018 @ 20:05:14
If you were to write a book, or a short story what would it be about?
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#2New Post! Jun 20, 2018 @ 20:08:14
Good thread!!
.. let me noodle on it a bit ...

Fiction or Non-Fiction .... or either?


and .. I'd really need a ghost writer. I could supply ideas and info, but hell if I could write any prose for a duration.
Cpat92 On May 16, 2021
It's all or nothing





Lauderhill, Florida
#3New Post! Jun 20, 2018 @ 20:15:18
@mrmhead Said

Good thread!!
.. let me noodle on it a bit ...

Fiction or Non-Fiction .... or either?


and .. I'd really need a ghost writer. I could supply ideas and info, but hell if I could write any prose for a duration.



You can choose either. It’s entirely up to you.
Leon On December 21, 2023




San Diego, California
#4New Post! Jun 20, 2018 @ 20:16:54
Probably a fantasy fiction, in the dense descriptive narration style of Joseph Conrad.

Yeah, quite an undertaking, which is why it will never occur.

Essays seem to be my thing, and a dabbling into poetry on occasion.
twilitezone911 On March 25, 2019




Saint Louis, Missouri
#5New Post! Jun 20, 2018 @ 21:51:15
when i was a kid and an teenager, i like make up stories in my head.

in 70's, i was about 12 years old, i read " the homecoming " by earl hammer, jr. which the book not only was make tv movie, which inspirited to the long -running series, " the waltons ".

it is true, that you write something that you know and be personal. with my life and childhood, an average dysfunctional jewish boy with an American princess mother with a jewish family.

so , i grew up normally.

i probably won't write myself, i am so boring in my life that i would fall asleep after the first paragraph. by the time, i finish the first page, i have asleep a week.

i could write about a Harvard English professor teaches perfect grammar.

i have a great imagination probably with a storyline with great characters at could be adventure with a great journey to delware. or a comedy story that a man had a great sex life, but can't ever remember where he parks his car.

no limits in writing just apply to it.
Ghyda On February 11, 2020




Anaheim, California
#6New Post! Jun 21, 2018 @ 00:26:57
For fiction I would write about my life experiences, or I would use the the life experiences of people I could interview. An English professor in my creative writing class suggested going to a used book store to look for biographical information. For example, he had a book about Japan published in 1939, which he used to write stories about pre-World-War-Two Japan. He wrote a story about Japanese soldiers climbing to the top of an active volcano. From another source he learned how to forge a Samurai sword. So in the story, the soldiers forge a sword. At sunrise, after the soldiers had worked most of the night, one of the solders held up the sword in the direction of the rising sun. He bowed toward the sun, yelled bonsai, and stepped into the volcano's crater. He fell toward the lava as the other soldiers watched him disappear into the mist.
Cpat92 On May 16, 2021
It's all or nothing





Lauderhill, Florida
#7New Post! Jul 08, 2018 @ 17:34:37
After putting it off, I’m going to start my book today. After I do homework of course.
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#8New Post! Jul 08, 2018 @ 19:33:33
Hmm - I never did answer here...

I think I'd "like" (not that I could) write some kind of fantasy-comedy-satire - a' la Hitchhikers Guide / 1984 / Discworld (currently picked up again)
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#9New Post! Jul 08, 2018 @ 19:34:29
@Cpat92 Said

After putting it off, I’m going to start my book today. After I do homework of course.



Good luck!
What's it about?
Cpat92 On May 16, 2021
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Lauderhill, Florida
#10New Post! Jul 08, 2018 @ 22:55:31
@mrmhead Said

Good luck!
What's it about?


It’s going to be a redemption story.
DiscordTiger On December 04, 2021
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Emerald City, United States (g
#11New Post! Jul 08, 2018 @ 23:19:39
Erotic fiction.


Only good fiction, not like that trash that was 50 shades of s***ty writing.
chaski On about 13 hours ago
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Tree at Floydgirrl's Window,
#12New Post! Jul 08, 2018 @ 23:36:28
The bible.



OK... I apologize for that uncalled for reference to religion....



Maybe a book on how to catch hackers or conduct criminal investigation or do some basic simple research on politically based meme so as to not make oneself look like a nitwit...

Or maybe a children's book on birds, dragons & dinosaurs.
Cpat92 On May 16, 2021
It's all or nothing





Lauderhill, Florida
#13New Post! Jul 09, 2018 @ 00:31:33
@DiscordTiger Said

Erotic fiction.


Only good fiction, not like that trash that was 50 shades of s***ty writing.



Never read that book, but I heard erotic fiction is pretty interesting.
Ghyda On February 11, 2020




Anaheim, California
#14New Post! Jul 09, 2018 @ 00:59:49
I wonder if non-dystopian science fiction would sell.

I don't know if anyone has written about the future in a non-dystopian way, but I just googled the idea and I found this webpage about the mislabeling of stories as dystopian.

For example, The Time Machine by HG Wells.

At Wired , they argue that Wells' novela explores the dystopian present, not the dystopian future.

I have often thought that The Jungle by Upton Sinclair gets a bad wrap as a description of the dystopian present. When I handed in a fifth grade book report, I mistakenly said that Upton Sinclair Lewis, the author of Main Street had written it.

I went on the explain how people who had categorized of the novel as an indictment of capitalism had the wrong idea. The main character, Radkus, lost his home and his family because he went to jail after he attacked a politically powerful person. That lead to his exclusion from consideration for employment as a political apparatchik. However, he never had any trouble finding employment based on his merit as a source of labor. His problems finding employment came from the fact that he beat his wife's boss nearly to death.

So I reasoned that in a socialist world, Radkus' lack of political connections would have destroyed any hope of a life. His only hope came from his merit as a worker.

Needless to say, the teacher didn't find my critique amusing.
chaski On about 13 hours ago
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Tree at Floydgirrl's Window,
#15New Post! Jul 09, 2018 @ 01:04:30
@Ghyda Said

I wonder if non-dystopian science fiction would sell.

I don't know if anyone has written about the future in a non-dystopian way, but I just googled the idea and I found this webpage about the mislabeling of stories as dystopian.

For example, The Time Machine by HG Wells.

At Wired , they argue that Wells' novela explores the dystopian present, not the dystopian future.

I have often thought that The Jungle by Upton Sinclair gets a bad wrap as a description of the dystopian present. When I handed in a fifth grade book report, I mistakenly said that Upton Sinclair Lewis, the author of Main Street had written it.

I went on the explain how people who had categorized of the novel as an indictment of capitalism had the wrong idea. The main character, Radkus, lost his home and his family because he went to jail after he attacked a politically powerful person. That lead to his exclusion from consideration for employment as a political apparatchik. However, he never had any trouble finding employment based on his merit as a source of labor. His problems finding employment came from the fact that he beat his wife's boss nearly to death.

So I reasoned that in a socialist world, Radkus' lack of political connections would have destroyed any hope of a life. His only hope came from his merit as a worker.

Needless to say, the teacher didn't find my critique amusing.



You teach might need to broaden his/her perspective.
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