Any writers out there????

Hello Geri
I love to write and would some day love to write a book. Never have done anything professionally but always had the notion to. I write childrens stories, tech guides, info shorts and adult fantasy. I used to do graphic design and concept work. I have a lot of great ideas and concepts floating around, I just need to get busy and do something with them.
Eric

 

Geri, weʻre all writing non-fiction (hopefully) here. Although librarians might categorize this as applied science or agronomy.

Is it bad karma to eat your Muse?

 

I love to write! I also love reading. (I've got a great book right here I've been reading today that I just got from the library. I haven't put it down much...) I'm a writer, not a speller. I love spell check. But yes, I love writing. My short story "Home" took first place at the AjPHA. It was very fun to write. The school is starting a newspaper. I'm going to go talk to my teacher about it. I think it'd be really fun. I'd really love to do book reviews, but I'll write anything really. I love writing!

 

I love to write, but I doubt anyone else would consider me officially a "writer", LOL.

Most of the time when I try really hard to write something specific like a sci-fi novel, it doesn't work out. The ideas and outline are great, but creating the actual text is difficult.

I have never forgotten the adage: "Write what you know". Most of what I know is tragedy and heartbreak, and I am not willing to turn that out into the world! I want to write stuff that helps, inspires or makes people laugh.

When I am not trying, and just write a short story or something, it comes out naturally and turns out pretty good. Now if only that would work at novel length, I'd maybe go somewhere with it!

Editing other people's work seems to be my forte... at least for now!

DH is in the middle of writing a screenplay, and I imagine I'll get to edit that.

 

I've always been told that my "gift" is words but have not figured out what exactly to do with them yet. I do write (amongst other things) for a free online biker magazine... www.whitelinemagazine.com. In fact, my banty hen Sadie was "chick of the month" one time. No banners, no popups, just like a magazine and you can even print it out at home. It's a clean mag too...nothing bad and even the rugrats can have a look. If there are any other writers out there with tales from the road, jokes, events, etc, submit them to the magazine...that's what we are all about - it's every biker's mag.
I would LOVE to find my nitch in writing. How do you go about publishing a book anyway???

 

Quote:chicabee..i think you can write!..and you do it very well!

 

I love to write, am in the process of writing a book "The Dynamic World of Dyslexia" "A Parents Overview" but being dyslexic I am so thankful for spellcheck! It is purely about my experiences of dyslexia from my own (miserable) schooldays - up to and including my son's experience of discalculia present day. it has not been an easy subject to write about as so much has already been published on the matter......however nothing ventured, nothing gained. maybe someday it will be published, who knows, but for me I enjoy "lifting the pen" I do however LOVE to write poetry, nothing fancy, just words from the heart. I see something am moved by it and all of a sudden the words charge through my head. Mostly though I have written poems for my family, recently wrote a poem called "The Fluffy Butts" which is all about the rescued battery hens I have (55 of them!).....it IS being published in a "hen" magazine...... can't wait to see my name in print.