How To Get A Book Published For The First Time In Canada
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help me randomly brainstorm story ideas?
hi, yeah, so i’m a minor writer, i’ve been working on bigger things, like possibly writing an actual book, but i can never really settle on the perfect idea. so, lately i’ve been submitting stories, and i like them, because then you can capture the reader quicker and whenever i have a new idea, or a new train of thought, its easy to reroute the story or just start a new one.
but i want to get serious about writing a BOOK. my old friend is a published author, and she’s just really laying it into me, “oh? really? your still going on writing those little snippets?” if i wasn’t civil, lets just say she’d be the perfect example for the murder victim in a new plot. so i’ve decided to get cracking.
though, i’ve found i cant come up with the perfect idea. i’ve started on a murder novel, i dont particularily like them, but other people enjoy reading the ones i write so i thought why not, but whenever i start i find myself getting into goverment conspiricies. and that wont work well, i know way too many goverment conspiracy novels out in this day and age and they are far more brilliant.
i’m adament though, in the fact that that i want the main character to be female, and either a teen, always easy to use as a main character, or a mid life woman, older, lost her youth, a little overweight and not particularily attractive. i’ve thought about making her a generally unappealing character, in behavior and looks, and socially repulsive. i think it’d be refreshing to work with that and work to make the reader find her amusing rather than repulsive, and see a charm about her. generally i dont want anything that can categorize her, whether it be looks, brains, i just want her to be negatively average, in a manner of speaking.
but at the same time, i was thinking of writing a fantasy. theyre always far more imaginative of all genres and really make you feel a little more in tune. but then i remebr all the fanatsy books that are alread out, vampires, wizards, werewolves, fairies, its all a little too predictable nowadays.
the heroine is average, then one day she discovers a magical item, or meets a magical being, and then theres a quest and over time, on the way to beating up the bad guy they become friends or lovers and meet more magical beings, then there IS ALWAYS A ^%&LOVE TRIANGLE(sigh) and then they defeat the bad guy and live happily ever after.
bullshiz, i hate those.
i was thinking of making my main character the sinistr villain. but not lke control the world or destroy it sort of characterss, i want her to be misunderstand, and have no problem being misunderstood.
and as for romance, i think people write what they always want in life, havent you noticed? a lot of authors have poeple literally throwing themselves at the main character, and it sells because i makes some girls giddy and iagining themselves in that situation. i dont want that. if theres nay romance, withotu a doubt i am ging to make this girl chase, she’s gonna work for it, not love at first sight, no triangles or geometric figures. just awkward angst.
so, pleeeaae no vamps and such, just please jot down and random thoughts you have or any reference to an interesting outylandish tale you’ve heard recently that i can use as a basis, or kick off. if you’ve heard any tall tales or funny trories from legend or on the news.
oh, and by the way, i live in canada, so the setting of the story is most likey to be rather cold in that aspect, do y0u think that would be fine, or should i do some follow up? maybe some where ike the amazon, vacation or such?
also, the more important question, would you personally rather read a stpry that focuses more in on the backgrounds of the characters in the stroy and the lives they lived up to a point, and how bit by bit their live interwine? or simply a vague heroine with a strong sense of justice that moves throught the motions and just tries to reach the goal.
what do like in a story, touch of romance? kidnapping and hburglary so as to assume a role of justice?
personally i was thinking of making all the conversation rather awkward. maybe it would be interesting?
also, if i havent talked to much yet, what do you think about the narration in a sstory? i was once thinking of making the lead maybe lose her voice, so as there would be far more thought, or maybe she is possesssed and there are two narrators that constantly quabble with eachother……..however i cant help but to flinch from that b/c i cant remember who, but thinkanother author has already done that quite well, and that thats how i got the idea
any random opinions to any idea would be a great reach out of the darkness for a writer in a slump.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slowdown there and stop wandering and wondering like you were lost in some vast and mysterious literary jungle. First of all, write what you know and write what you love and what you find interesting. Second, remember, although you are writing what interests you, you are writing for your readers.
Your main character, or protagonist, can be plain and even repulsive but don’t forget that for your story to be successful, your readers will need to identify with that character and they will not want to do that with a repulsive character unless this person possesses and portrays exception admirable characteristics that far outweigh the physical..
You might want to write the story from the point of view of a sidekick type (as done in the Sherlock Holmes stories) or from the view of likable character telling a child or someone the tale from a sort of omnipotent POV. Good luck. And, by the way, I am a published writer who graduated from short stories, a compilation still available at Amazon.com for $7.95 ; )
As for a plot suggestion, you might consider a woman you has an unreasonable and seemingly unattainable goal. She even understands the impossible nature of her heart’s desire but cannot help but pursue it. It is an obsession she cannot contain. You come up with what it is and what makes her want it so badly.
You chronicle her struggles and her victories and failures along her quest (Whatever it is) and in the seeking of what she believes she cannot live without or be fulfilled without, she discover the thing she really need that she never knew she wanted until she found it.
Best of luck to you..