i think i should write a book

[Bob]

because there are some really incredibly laughably bad books being published, sold, and read these days and i know for a fact i could do better than them. i overheard someone raving about this book they were reading, the plot was something about some slut who likes to sleep with married men, but she finds god and tries to reform, but then she falls in love with a priest who's married, but she resists, but then she falls in love with his son, who's also a priest, and i think he's celibate so it's hard for her, being a slut, and she cheats on him with some married guy and gets pregnant with the other guy's baby, and then the priest's son proposes to her, and she has to reconcile her love for the son with her own sluttiness

i could write books about sluts, i bet i could get published too

[na§tee]

in a world where eva longaria and jordan can get publishing deals and write books filled with sex, i reckon it could be done. you could certainly write one but do you have enough celebrity panache to actually get it published, bob? you would need a good alternative name/persona. like jt leroy, but not.

[Bob]

it would be kind of ironic, me making a living writing books about sex

i always thought that if i was going to have a fake name, it would be sue dunham. not because i've always wanted to pretend to be a woman, but because it's clever, because it's pronounced similar to pseudonym.

[enree erzweglle]

i always thought that if i was going to have a fake name, it would be sue dunham. not because i've always wanted to pretend to be a woman, but because it's clever, because it's pronounced similar to pseudonym.Write her autobiography.

[camo]

write a book about writing a book

[DIGI]

I always felt this way as well. I tend to lean more towards screenplays, though. I think the first time I realized it was when Kangaroo Jack came out. I remember seeing the previews and being very upset that some jerkass took a shit on a stack of paper and turned it into a movie. This Snakes on a Plane bullshit is just adding fuel to the fire.

[alexandra]

i've tried several times, but i can only write short stories, it seems. and now i just write some lyrics every now and then. that's it. :=/

"there's nothing worse than wasted talent."

[enree erzweglle]

Writing is tough. Sustaining the effort to write a quality book or a collection is really tough. If you're serious about it, a couple of bits of advice. First, you don't have to write the entire book before you approach publishers; you can (and should) approach them when you've got a strong concept and a few representative chapters to back it up. Second, don't give drafts to friends to review (much as you'll be tempted to want to do that). I hate it when people ask me to read stuff that they've written just because of what I do for a living. Last thing, find a balanced, reputable genre/fiction editor and make sure he's someone who is not afraid to hardline it and be upfront with you about that.

[Bob]

writing a full on novel sounds harder than i bet i think it is. it's easy enough to come up with a good idea for a book, but to actually sit down and flesh it out properly over the span of a whole novel, the whole time considering continuity and pacing and flow and whatever else, it's a chore, i'd bet.

short stories i think i could do, though. i don't know why i don't.