Time for another "who's writing a book?" thread

[frogwoman]

Anyone??

 

[El Jefe]

Peter Cook at a party..

Pete: So, what are you up to?
Someone: I'm writing a book
Pete: Oh, that's funny, neither am I.

 

[poului]

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Crikey so many aspiring novelists.

I take it most of these are "novelettes"?

 

[frogwoman]

Nah ... I've written about 160 pages (of the one I'm working on at the moment ... i wrote more a long time ago in the past for part 2 but I'll probably have to change most of it now. Ho hum...)

 

[zoooo]

Crikey so many aspiring novelists.

I take it most of these are "novelettes"?

Why?

 

[poului]

Why?

novels are big.

 

[Firky]

Poului wrote a book and it was shit.

 

[zoooo]

novels are big.

They are quite big aren't they.
Sometimes I drop mine in the bath.

I wondered why we should all be writing novelettes. Is it because we are not clever enough to know enough words for a novel?

 

[poului]

Poului wrote a book and it was shit.

not as shit as yours.

at least mine had world-class punctuation.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've just finished part 1 of my book

anyone want to review it - who's got time on their hands to look at 128 pages?? (and another 30 pages if they want to look at the begining of part 2)

Hell I've got nothing to do, I'll read your book for you

You can reciprocate by reading through mine for me once it's finished, but as that will be never at this rate you needn't worry too much about that particular obligation

 

[frogwoman]

thanks mate.

 

[Dillinger4]

I've just finished part 1 of my book

anyone want to review it - who's got time on their hands to look at 128 pages?? (and another 30 pages if they want to look at the begining of part 2)

I will.

PM me and I will give you my other email address (I dont use that hotmail one for emails)

 

[frogwoman]

pm sent.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

FW, I'd love to read it!

 

[frogwoman]

check your emails ...

 

[scifisam]

Froggy, show me yours, and I'll show you mine.

This is not an example of the level of wit in my 'novel.'

(Yes 'novel,' btw; I know what a novella is: a story with even less chance of being published than a novel - unless it's by a TV presenter and is published as a 'quick read' for a quid around book month time).

 

[Barking_Mad]

Froggy, can i have a read of your book thing?

 

[frogwoman]

Check PMs you two.

 

[Roadkill]

My book's due at the publisher in a fortnight. It's all written, but there's still a faintly alarming amount of editing and so on still to do...

 

[zoooo]

Ooh. 'citing.
What kind of book is it?

 

[frogwoman]

Nice one roadie its a history book isn't it??

 

[zoooo]

Ah, non fiction?
I'm trying to figure out a non fiction proposal at the moment.

I much prefer the query process of non fiction to fiction. You don't even have to write the thing until it's been commissioned!

 

[Roadkill]

its a history book isn't it??

Yep.

Now, if I could only get the preface into a form I'm happy with, I could knock off work for today feeling pleased with myself. I've drafted, redrafted, tinkered and fucked about with it for weeks and I still can't get it quite right.

 

[phildwyer]

I'm writing two. At the same time. Not recommended.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Impressed with Froggies book. Don't want to give the story away but it's a subtly chilling political story...

 

[Cheesypoof]

Course i am writing a book, i am writing two at the moment and have completed another two over the past year

 

[idioteque]

I'd love to have a go at some proper creative writing, short stories in particular. My creative prowess is limited to lyrics for the moment though.

 

[frogwoman]

Impressed with Froggies book. Don't want to give the story away but it's a subtly chilling political story...

Cheers mate. Have you finished part 1??

and do you want part 2? (what I've done on it, that is)

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yes. Quite impressed. Had one or two things to mention actually - might PM you...

I'll read Part 2 if you've done a lot of it...

 

[frogwoman]

Hehe.

I'm actually REALLY enjoying writing this...