Getting started
Wed, 2004-11-17 10:41
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Getting started
Hi,
I have always been interested in writing and find once I start the words just seem to flow.
I have, let's say a colourful life, and have started to write my autobiography, but lets face it, its not the best place to start and learn!!
I really wondered if you had some suggestions or pointers about getting started in the world of writing?
Kind regards,
Michelle Howard
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martin_t
spamming fuckwit
Si
The problem with writing an autobiography is don't expect it to be published unless you are famous already - think, who would buy it*?
It might be great practise however, and be very useful for a future writing career if you developed one.
Better though I'd think to base short stories on aspects of your experiences. Every writer is writing about themselves to some extent in their work, you just have to find different ways of expressing and interpreting the life you have lived.
Hope that was some help
S
*It is sad but true that one must always have an eye on the market when writing if they want to get anywhere.
hitch
Si,
You are the infuriating insurance salesman to our Cyber Coleridge!
How DARE you interrupt the flow of poetic genius from webpageboda !?
My God! This sets the art of Poesy back two millennia!
Well, two millimetres at least.
sigh, bloody sigh!
Devrie
It kinda depends on how it is "packaged" right? I think that a possible option is to market it as a fictional book. If you can find all the right connections and make the entire story of your life cohesive, then it very well could make for great reading material. I'm willing to bet that almost anyone's life story could become a best seller, given the right novelist and market approach.
That's just my one and a half Pence.
megan
im an author of two books one the fair ground the other she and what and how i stared was in *school but if you send your work to a publisher (with name and adress) your sure to be notised