Just writing a post. Speaking of which, I have had the idea to write a book for a while. Something fantasy based, primarily. And I mean swords and shields, dragons and dungeons, and spells and bardic stories. I enjoy reading other such books--the Eragon series was the last. Good stories about heroes and villains is something most can enjoy as it keeps you pulled in.
I've come up with a beginning and Laura seems to think it is good, but the problem with writing a fantasy book is there are so many of them out there. How can I create a book that stands out? Eragon, Harry Potter, the vampire books written by the Mormon author, Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride, and The Count of Monte Cristo (of course there are others as well...) are "good" books that seem to stand out among others.
Why?
Looking Forward
5 years ago
The Twilight series was engaging, and I like the stories, but I wouldn't say they were well written. :-)
ReplyDeleteHow do you make a story "engaging"?
ReplyDeleteI only read 2. Harry Potter, volume 1. And The Princess Bride.
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter was lame so I never went any further in the series. There was an unjustified amount of hype that went along with the series, and the author was simply lucky.
The princess bride was good. I liked the movie, and came across the book. If there had been no movie I would never have read the book.
It is very difficult to write a blockbuster book. You must be a good writer, and get very lucky, even to have a book printed. Then you need to convince the world that your book is better than everybody else's, even though it is not. The market is saturated with people writing fantasy books, many of which never get printed.
My advice is to write a book that you enjoy writing, and not think about whether it will ever make any money or not.
P.S. That was John commenting, not Jenny. And your blog is inordinately hard to post comments on, for some reason.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it didn't sound like Jenny.
ReplyDeleteI agree with John. If you want to write a book for fun, then write it for fun. But don't even think about whether you're going to make any money by writing it.
Anyway, everybody at some point gets too involved with LoR, or Star Wars, or, erm, D&D, or some other endeavor that gets you excited about using your imagination and decides to write a book.