Which urbanites are writing books?

[mangakitten]

What kind of novel is it? Having made so much effort it seems a shame that you're falling at the last hurdle. Do you mean you can't afford to print it? Surely your agent would take pity on you and let you send it by email if they knew that?

I'm basically just being very lazy. Someone I know has a super-fast printer at work, and the ability to bind it into nice book-like items, and has been printing out various drafts for me. Then he went and got engaged and got married all super-fast (the inconsiderate bastard!) and has been too busy to print out this latest version. I finally went to a print shop at the weekend to see how much it would be to do a similar thing myself, and was quoted £45 for two copies, which I'd rather not pay! However, my pal is coming back from his honeymoon next week and said he'd do it for me then, so I'm just gonna wait for that to happen.

having been off work while I was writing it meant it was dead easy to get things done... now I'm working full time again, it's even easier to put them off! such is life, eh? But hopefully I should be back into it in the next week or so...

as to the novel itself, it's a sort of would-be hilarious satirical crime thing.

And can I be the first to say: 24 posts in three years

LOL, yeah, I used to post on here quite a bit when I first joined... I guess three years ago! Blimus! I think I once had a higher post count than this, but didn't the board break a while back and a load of posts get wiped?

Anyway, I stopped posting here until about 3 hours ago, when boredom at work drove me back.

 

[Brainaddict]

Well, welcome back mangakitten, and keep us up to date on the novel. When it's published you can do a reading at offline too....

 

[SeniorSbagliato]

I'm attempting something vaguely autobiographical at the moment, though proper publication is still only a distant dream. I'd be interested to hear what stuff other urbanites are working on.

Me too, same thing, autobiographical stuff mixed with pure fantasy pretty good so far, I seem to be able to blend the fact witht he fiction pretty seamlessly especially as some of the fact is weird enough to be fiction, there's mad tangents and political ranting too.

The thing is though I started it about ten years ago and I'm a completely different person now so It's hard to finnish it off cos my styles not the same, I prolly take the best bits and do an entire re-write.

 

[mangakitten]

Well, welcome back mangakitten, and keep us up to date on the novel. When it's published you can do a reading at offline too....

Cheers, Brainaddict. What's offline?

I like your optimism! I'll keep you updated on what happens.

 

[gnoriac]

My first attempt is a S.London crim black comedy. Sent it off to 3 agents, 2 sent it back without looking at it (the 1st took 2 months to do that, the 2nd just a day).
The 3rd sent me back a 1-para rejection note, for which I'm extremely grateful, basically while he found the comedy side excellent, it wasn't focused tightly enough on the plot. Now he's pointed it out, it seems pretty obvious.
So, I'm off back to Thailand for 5 weeks soon, so I'll be taking my laptop and reconstructing the story.
As I see it, I've already got the content, just need to get the framework sorted.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

bumped so I don't forget to read all this later

 

[mangakitten]

Well, I've finally managed to sort out getting my book printed out, so spiralx (my other half) is going to read it this weekend. While I'm in Brighton, so I can't kill him if he says he doesn't like it.

this is the first time anyone I know will have read it. I'm quite scared.

 

[Cid]

Well, I've finally managed to sort out getting my book printed out, so spiralx (my other half) is going to read it this weekend. While I'm in Brighton, so I can't kill him if he says he doesn't like it.

this is the first time anyone I know will have read it. I'm quite scared.

Jesus tap dancing christ - I didn't know you were with spiralx (know him from unsound/parties etc), haven't seen him in a while though.

I'm writing about 4 books - one of those people who writes ten pages then gets bored and changes

First is a sort of sci-fi version of Italo Calvino's invisible cities. Second is fantasy of the parralel earth variety only with vampires and alcoholic grave diggers. 3rd is dark as fuck - about a girl trapped in a room. Fourth is a sci-fi murder mystery. Not giving any more details

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Jesus tap dancing christ - I didn't know you were with spiralx (know him from unsound/parties etc), haven't seen him in a while though.

I'm writing about 4 books - one of those people who writes ten pages then gets bored and changes

First is a sort of sci-fi version of Italo Calvino's invisible cities. Second is fantasy of the parralel earth variety only with vampires and alcoholic grave diggers. 3rd is dark as fuck - about a girl trapped in a room. Fourth is a sci-fi murder mystery. Not giving any more details

that's s'posed to be a very good approach, having loads on the go and switching when you get bored, according to the Prof @ Uni anyway

 

[onemonkey]

here are a few more urbanites writing books..


http://urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=134624

 

[marty21]

here are a few more urbanites writing books..


http://urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=134624

that has been a great exercise so far, writing everyday, even though tbh, a fair bit if it is filler as it's about writing 50,000 words in 30 days...

once november is done, i'm going to completely rewrite the thing, get rid of the filler, and see if i can work it into something i can send off to an agent.

i have had a collection of poetry published...

 

[Pickman's model]

me!

i'm writing a couple of books, at varying speeds.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

People are, of course, generally writing manuscripts. It's only a book if some other bastard lets you turn it into one.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Who was it (Willie Rushton?) who did the Private Eye cartoon many, many years ago which went like this:

First person: I'm writing a novel.

Second Person: Neither am I.

 

[bertifrew]

People are, of course, generally writing manuscripts. It's only a book if some other bastard lets you turn it into one.

Thats so true. I have 3 completed manuscipts, i'm not even sure what to do with them(eg books,short films). I'm too scared to send them to anyone incase they go wtf is this? go back to school and learn how to write ya fuckin numpty!
But enough of my fragile ego. i got a pinnacle studios video editing thingy free with my new pc, i'm going to cobble somthing together, and try to get someone to pay for the proper filming of one of my stories.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Who was it (Willie Rushton?) who did the Private Eye cartoon many, many years ago which went like this:

First person: I'm writing a novel.

Second Person: Neither am I.

That's awesome.

and sadly so true. I haven't been writing my book for years.