What is it about authors that sustain them through the process? Is it wanting to share an idea that is inside them, that keeps going through their brain like an annoying tune? Is it the challenge? Is it a form of bragging?
So, along comes blogland. I began a blog almost two years ago. Then I thought about the novel again. And thought about blogging. And thought about combining the two. What if I wrote the novel, bit by bit, and let readers suggest ideas? Hmmm....what a novel idea! Almost like a reverse "Choose your own adventure" book. Yeah, OK, so the idea isn't that novel, but it sounds like it could be fun.
So...stay tuned - at some point I will begin this novel. I'll let my readers in on the kernels of the story. We can bounce ideas back and forth. We can write it together. If you're interested in playing along, leave me a comment or follow the blog. This may not happen quickly, but it will happen!
More later....
include a duckbill platypus.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound like an interesting idea. I have a start for a book, have about a dozen pages. And have had for about a year. I need to do more, obviously... I will have to check and see what I can add. Hmmm. I would add... Chocolate. Yes. A good story should have chocolate. ;D
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i've thought about doing the same thing.
ReplyDeleteit would sort of be like when dickens parceled
out his novels in weekly installments . . .
You should absolutely do it. Or start small, with some Flash Fiction. I've done a few pieces on my blog but I think it's time I got back into them. (Found you over at Farmer's Wifey).
ReplyDeleteI am game but I have found that others' lives are not that interesting; thus their stories may not be as well.
ReplyDeleteBut, who knows, we may be able to put together some readable sentences.
I wrote a book because I thought that I had to let people know that it is time we take care of ourselves and not depend on health insurance companies. A few months before I was let go of my full time job, the company let go of about four hundred people. Most of them had health insurance through the company including myself. I knew a lot of people in our building because I was one of the safety coordinators. I was feeling sorry for a lot of my friends because they had family members who were sick. That made me write a book.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of books that are half written, but I completed this book in a very short time and published it through Lulu. I made the mistake of not getting an ISBN.
I guess we have to have a passion for writing what we want to write.