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I ha a shoe box I started in 7th grade full of my ideas for a book! But I never did it...
the writing is the hard part...
I'm better at poetry.

razz Yeah KK, the hardest part of writing is....writing. But you should give it a shot. At least you wrote down your ideas. I don't. XD But I'm starting to now. Like now, when I write, I get major writers block. I have to force myself to skip over the part and keep on writing. I'll come back to it later. I just need to get a rough draft down or I'll spend all my time editing.

That's a good point Bab. I had an ex-friend who thought she was a great writer. It didn't help the fact that she won 2nd or 3rd place in some tiny writing contest. She really is only good at mechanics. She keeps saying she is a walking dictionary. But that never makes a good writer. You really gotta have a good imagination. But, that does not mean everything has to be twisted and/or different. Take Little Women for example. It was a regular story about regular people in an regular age. Yet it was very good.

A thing that helps me express things into words is by observing regular things. Like going out for a walk. Really looking at stuff around you. You could also try writing by your emotions. I tend to be an emotional person, so I write by how I feel. And if I'm feeling happy and need a sad part, I listen to sad music.

Yeah I'm kind of the same way. Although concept writers make good roleplayers.

Roleplaying...well, it's sort of like writing a story with a group of people.

Or, to a more simplistic extent, it's like those make-believe games you used to play with your friends when you were little. Except vastly more complicated, and in written form.

I don't particularly enjoy it, but some people really love it.

oh man, im the same way. except eveyone doesn't praise me. my sister says i have no imagination (she's zebraberry in the guild, not pointing fingers at her though, she's very nice), my teacher gives me c's and talks to me espcially about writing.... ugh. sad

I'm currently writing a book. I'm like on chapter 25 or so. Writing is too general a range to clasify it as the hardest thing to do when writing a book. For me it's many different things: sentance structure; coming up with a world for which to put my characters in; decribing everything well enough; the research to help explain better; and coming up with unique characters are all very difficult for me.

I'm going to post my edited first chapter in my journal soon so keep your eyes open for it!

I'm just winging writing my book. So when I get new ideas it's put on hiatus for a while.

So new update. I've been having troubles with the beginning part of my book. After much writers block I am finally on the move again. Expect my first chapter to be up within the week.