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Re: "How to Write a Book" - Kaleb Nation, author of 'Bran Hambric' series

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Moltak118 is not online. Moltak118
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22 Oct 2011 03:49 PM
"One of the questions I probably get asked most often is How Do I Write A Book, and that's a pretty much impossible question to answer. There's not really an easy way to explain how anyone writes a book. It's like trying to explain how to fall in love, you can't really put it into words or instructions well.

A book usually just starts off with you wandering around in a mess of potential ideas in your head and, picking one to go with, then deciding that one isn't right, then chasing after another one and finding out that one's not right either.

And then suddenly, from nowhere, comes this idea that you didn't expect at all, and it just hits you like a train, and suddenly you're obsessed with writing it down, and going into the backstories of ever tiny character and planning out histories and futures and worlds and every aspect of these character's lives. That's when you know you've found The Idea. That's the start.

Then, where you were once struggling to push out a thousand or a hundred or even 5 words a day, now you're writing five thousand or ten thousand or fifteen thousand because you can't pull yourself from writing this story. My writing tends to start at 5 in the evening and go to two or three AM but that's because I entirely lose track of time when I'm writing. It pretty much becomes your life. You only fall deeper into the story the more you get to know it.

For example when I had the idea for Bran Hambric, it came to me late at night, and it just hit me with this image of two people on a rooftop, and suddenly I became obsessed with finding out every detail behind the how's and who's and why's of this image.

And after the initial buzz that I got from writing on this new idea, the freshness of it wore off, and it's then that a writer gets to find out if it's the real thing or just another idea that'll end up stuffed in a box somewhere.

That's where things start to get a bit difficult, you have to plot out chapters, change things, revise it, then change it again and revise it again. That's when some people just give up -- it's difficult to go on and it's easy to stop and look for something newer and more temporarily interesting. Some people leave their stories orphaned like that. But some people press on through the hard times because they really, truly love this idea. They keep it up until they reach the end, and write that last word. And those are the people who become authors.

So I'd have to say that the way to write a book is to fall in love with an idea so much that you're willing to stick out five or six years or however long it'll take writing it and then finding an agent and a publisher and all the ridiculous hoops you have to jump through.

Because the only way anyone would be mad enough to do all that work with no real promise of any tangible reward at the end is if you truly love it. And if you love it enough, you're willing to do whatever it takes to make it work, and turn that idea into a book." - Kaleb Nation, author of the 'Bran Hambric' series.
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I posted this for some of you writers out there of having an idea of writing a book. I am writing a book myself and I found this on YT and it was VERY inspirational to me. I hope you like it.
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Moltak118 is not online. Moltak118
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22 Oct 2011 03:59 PM
I don't mind if you reply, troll even. I just love this speech so much. Hope this touches you guys too.
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evilishnessII is not online. evilishnessII
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22 Oct 2011 04:06 PM
:)
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Moltak118 is not online. Moltak118
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22 Oct 2011 04:06 PM
;D, Like it?
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evilishnessII is not online. evilishnessII
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22 Oct 2011 04:07 PM
Yus.
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Moltak118 is not online. Moltak118
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22 Oct 2011 04:11 PM
You writing a book?
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evilishnessII is not online. evilishnessII
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22 Oct 2011 04:12 PM
Yeah. Still looking for some inspiration to continue, though.
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22 Oct 2011 04:24 PM
I'll give you the link, it's more inspirational.

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KoopaBowser is not online. KoopaBowser
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22 Oct 2011 04:33 PM
Who's Kaleb Nation?
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Moltak118 is not online. Moltak118
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22 Oct 2011 04:38 PM
He's an adult, but a writer. At 14 he got an idea for a book, 6 years later it became published. Now he's 21 and working on the 3rd book in his series. It took SIX years for his dream to come true. He is my inspiration for writing.
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Moltak118 is not online. Moltak118
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22 Oct 2011 08:44 PM
Bumped for IcyBlu
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evilishnessII is not online. evilishnessII
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23 Oct 2011 12:20 AM
Orly?
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Devirox1 is not online. Devirox1
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23 Oct 2011 02:25 AM
Very nice.

I'm an aspiring author myself, but I have a bad case of writers block, and haven't just sat down and WROTE in a while.

:/

May I recommend the book "Wild Mind" by Natalie Goldberg.

Also "The Writer's Block" by Jason Rekulak

Also "The Pocket Muse" by Monica Wood.
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