Have you ever written a novel?

If you could ever read some of my police reports, you would think that i write a novel with each incident. i am serious. each incident has to answer the questions of who, what, when, where and why? one case, where this man came home from grocery shopping and was killed inside his home, was about 27 pages and that was just my part in the crime. yeah, i need to write a book after 44 years. there is nothing i have not seen, smelled, felt or observed…...nothing.

I’d like to but it’s not something I’m prioritizing now. In the future I might try to knock out my rough NNWM style. I like the idea of quickly assembling the first draft because I’m sure if I don’t I’ll get bogged down in the details.

I wrote a series of short stories, Sci Fi based some years ago. Got one published in a magazine but that was all.
I still write and have recently began writing again. (Was ill with Cancer so it all got pushed back into oblivion for a while)
I’d be happy to share my published story with anyone who’s interested?
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@downtide – have you? just wondered where the question popped out of?

@john65pennington I’m sure your experiences would make a great novel.

@john65pennington – I’d definately read it if you ever did! for sure!

@scotsbloke I’ve written two novels, neither of them published. One of them can’t be because it was fanfiction using someone else’s universe. The other one was written in a hurry and is so, so bad it’s not even worth editing. I’ve just started the planning process for a new one.

I wrote two none were published.
One was about a civil war in a futuristic South Africa, I was told is was to controversial to be published. The other was about a spaceship on a collusion course with earth and how a rescue team tried to stop it, my cousin stole the novel and tried to publish it in her name, no one wanted to publish it any way.

Not yet I plan to someday. I have some articles published; short story accounts about growing up in the South.

I’m writing a book right now actually. I hope to get it published before the Summer of next year.

No. I mostly just write Nov’s… I never quite finish.

I’m writing/planning a couple in progress. My one about the “Second Childhood” is farther along though.

The prologue starts here: http://www.bigyesbomb.com/2009/12/second-childhood-prologue-pages-1-5_26.html

And Chapter one turns out to be an epistolary of our protagonist’s blog (This is his first entry): http://tanakatoday.blogspot.com/2005/01/so-im-5-years-old-second-time-heres.html

Three. All rejected by multple publishers and consigned to the flames.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land Apparently it’s normal to get the same manuscript rejected 40 times before it’s published. Getting rejected doesn’t automatically mean your work isn’t worth publishing.

But it wouldn’t hurt to get feedback from people whose opinions you value and make alterations where appropriate.

I did. I wrote a complete draft in November during NaNoWriMo. It’‘s shorter than two other half-novels I’ve been unable to finish, and it is very raw, but it does go all the way through to “The End.” It may never be a horse-drawn coach and take me to the prince’s ball, but it is an honest-to-goodness pumpkin and some mice.

I’d love to but I think I’m too young to yet… It would probably be way too shrouded in self-indulgence… although my life and feelings and stories are pretty amazing..to weave that creatively into some kind of positivity might be….nice…

@lynneblundell, you are not too young. I made the mistake of thinking that. I imagined that I needed a lot of life experience before I could write anything, and so I waited until my sixth decade. If I could have got my youthful self-indulgence out of the way while I was still a self-indulgent youth, I could have been a much more practiced writer who had moved on to worthier topics by the time I was in my fourth.

I’m about half way done with one right now. I write on it when I feel like it and do it strictly for fun. It’s a gay paranormal romance.

@hawaii_jake that makes me happy.

I’m just finishing my first one, it might have a part 2…not sure yet, it will never be published for 2 reasons,
1— I am really selfish and don’t want to share it with the world,
and
2— I won’t let them edit it for size (I doubt they will let me make a 2000+ page book lol) /content extremely graphic
It’s a Resident Evil type end of the world book and I love it

Is it possible to get 1 book made? (how I want it made) not published for mass duplication but just one.

@tyrantxseries, you can most likely get one copy from a “print on demand” service. If you can afford to pay for it, you can probably have it done any way you want. I’ve heard pretty good things about Lulu and iUniverse but have no direct experience with any of the services.

@Jeruba thanks

I’ve written quite a few novel-length stories. Until I write one that I think someone else will be able to read without convulsing and vomiting, I doubt it will ever get on the path of being published.

@daemonelson There might be a market for that.

@fundevogel You know, I had actually considered that. Perhaps it could be an apple product to induce vomiting. iBarf.

@daemonelson Who knows? They’ve got apps for everything now.

@fundevogel Now THAT I would like to see. iPhone ad comes on telly, “Do you need a map? We’ve got an app for that. Do you need to find a restaurant? We’ve got an app for that. Do you need to fall down, vomit and convulse? We’ve even got an app for that too.”

I have written 8 beach novels.

I’ve written a few short stories that were published and one technical book, Sureface Mount Technology for PC Board Design which is now in a second edition edited by a professor currently active in the technology.

Based on the underwhelming income from that effort, if I do write another book, it will be targeted at being a blockbuster sensational novel amied at selling movie rights and making me a tidy little fortune.