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Storymill ipad6/12/2023 There is goodness in this approach, your ideas are no longer in you, they now have taken shape in the real world they are a story. You can get your ideas out in a flow of creativity, like I did, and take a chance that what you produce wonit suck to everyone but you. National Novel Writing Month is suppose to give you a push and get you writing. You need to get those ideas from your head and into your computer, on your typewriter, or pen and paper, or cave wall and charcoal before it can become anything that remotely resembles a novel. Many people will think that 30 days just isnit enough to write the epic that they have locked away inside, and they would be missing the point.Īs long as that book remains inside you then it isnit really a book, itis a concept, maybe a collection of ideas, nothing more. National Novel Writing Month is a neat notion where you take the month of November and try your damndest to start and complete a novel. Recently, however, that dormant urge to write fiction has reemerged, shaken awake by the realization that this month is National Novel Writing Month, and by a recent rediscovery of StoryMill, a product from Mariner Software, the folks who brought you the spartan yet infinitely useable Mariner Writer word processor. Koontzis position in the literary world was safe from me. I gave up trying to write stories and placated myself with an occasional article in the public eye on a website here or a newspaper there. Iim positive I gave many junior editors something to laugh about as they stuffed the form rejection letter into my return envelope. Now I understand why no one ever published my stories. What I had created in my writing attempts were streams of creativity that had moments of literary goodness (at least to my current and somewhat jaded eyes), but lack coherence that ultimately overshadowed any goodness there might have been. I also needed a way to describe my characters better. What I desperately needed was an outline for my stories, a way to map progress towards the resolution. There are moments when the characters seem to awake and become animated when a plot twists just so, but those moments are few and far between. Looking at them now, through the spectacles of time and experience, the stories are dull and hard to follow, even to me. It was interesting to me at the time I wrote them. While there were plots with characters and conflicts that needed resolution my stories didnit flow. I took out some of my early stories recently and read them. After a while I started believing I was an undiscovered Dean Koontz and all I had to do was write that perfect story, find the right editor, and the rest would be literary history. After all, family and friends who read my efforts dutifully heaped praise on them. Way back, before I bought my first Mac I wrote a bunch of short fiction and believed that what I wrote was good enough for publication. For a very long time Iive wanted to write a book or short story and have it published.
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