Thread: I want to write a book

I spent years constructing the world, the characters, ect. but when I put pen on paper I realize how little I know. It's the tiny little details that keep me from writing.

Most of the time when this happens it sets me into what I like to call a thinking episode. Should I just write it out with little planning? Or spend hours writing well placed paragraphs editing on the way(extremely time consuming)? I don't know which is more efficent in the end.

I like writing in large chunks of rambling nonsensical words and then editing them afterwards. You should probably be one full rewrite and three or four complete passes for editing.

Break it all up.

Break it way down into what you want, then write bit by bit.

I usually envision writing like forging a sword.

Basically, what I do is write down all the ideas in my head. Then, I structure the storyline using an outline. This structuring doesn't involve unique ideas, just the general plot, without describing setting, characters or elements. Then, I write the story, and from there, you hammer it out.

The key is just having something to work off of. Get your basic structure down, and keep hammering and polishing.

All right guys advice taken, but I swear saying and doing are two different things entirely. I'm going to ignore my inner editor and unleash the warrior of patience within!

I'd like to write too. Too bad I suck a bag of dick when it comes to actually writing

It always came naturally to me. Besides, you can gain a healthy profit from it, I go to www.freelancewriters.com, you can make about $1000.00 a story/poem there.

Just do what you're comfortable doing, if you like editing as you go then do it. But you have to do those three or four passes afterwords anyway.