Writers Block

[OwlHoot]

Always write about something you have first hand experience of.

How about a delusional misfit that's been diagnosed with excessive syndrome .. ?

Well he admits he has been polishing it non-stop

[Doggy Styles]

Well I was only exagerrating when I said I'd only completed the first sentence of my putative book. I've recently written the first chapter. But being a perfectionist, I keep polishing and changing.
Maybe I'm trying too hard - I don't want to create great literature, just a formulaic commercial phenomenon that makes me filthy rich.

The plot involves a police inspector in an unnamed sleep, tropical paradise who gets involved in a drugs and prostitution network run by the Albanian mafia in concert with local crooks. And so on....But the pace would be suitably sleepy, charming, whimiscal and positive, more Mme Ramotswe than Jack Reacher.


maybe I need to research a sleepy troipical paradise - get a feel for it...

Don't keep changing the first chapter.

Get on with writing the book, and only go back and change earlier chapters if your plot development demands it. As for polishing, do that at the end. A decent editor can help you there.

I assume you've planned the whole storyline, especially the ending?

[sasguru]

I assume you've planned the whole storyline, especially the ending?

I have an outline yes.

[KentPhilip]

sounds like one of those books that once you put it down you cant pick it up

Because it contains so much muck it sticks to the floor.

[FiveTimes]

Well I was only exagerrating when I said I'd only completed the first sentence of my putative book. I've recently written the first chapter. But being a perfectionist, I keep polishing and changing.
Maybe I'm trying too hard - I don't want to create great literature, just a formulaic commercial phenomenon that makes me filthy rich.

The plot involves a police inspector in an unnamed sleep, tropical paradise who gets involved in a drugs and prostitution network run by the Albanian mafia in concert with local crooks. And so on....But the pace would be suitably sleepy, charming, whimiscal and positive, more Mme Ramotswe than Jack Reacher.


maybe I need to research a sleepy troipical paradise - get a feel for it...

Sounds a bit like the series on the BBC a couple of months ago - Death in Paradise and for that reason I'm out

[Doggy Styles]

I have an outline yes.

Then just write your story! This is the enjoyable part, so enjoy it.

[TheBigD]

Always write about something you have first hand experience of.

He is... although I hadn't realised he'd retired from being an Albanian prostitute.

[stek]

I had a piece I wrote for the late lamented Bolton Wanderers Fanzine 'Tripe 'n' Trotters' read out on Baddiel and Skinners 'Unplanned' - having a go at WBA with special reference to the Second Gulf War going on the time, Baddiel read it out live despite the team insisting on no football references being mentioned, but I saw it and heard it abd he did mention the 'clause' and read it anyway with an 'I know we're not supposed to mention football, but....'

Now, I've got all eps of Unplanned, not watched them all so I can't say, but I can't find it, so either:

1: I can't haven't found it yet and will have to keep looking

2: it was cut from DVD version.

3: It never happened.

Thinking 3: at moment....

[speling bee]

He is... although I hadn't realised he'd retired from being an Albanian prostitute.

He's turned amateur.

[Doggy Styles]

He's turned amateur.

Does that mean he's got his virginity back?