Got a novel/play/screenplay in your head? Get it on paper! Here is the page count thread for hopeful and actual writers.

[wilbur]

Are you a writer in need of some motivation? Post here each day or whenever you can with your page count. Or post your hopes for how many pages you want to write each day and then come back and see if you managed them. Even if they are rubbish, at least you will have them down on paper and can make them brilliant at a later date.

I will start. I am hoping to write a second full-length screenplay before August 2008. I have two days a week where I have time to write my own stuff and I am aiming to do 5 pages on each of those days.

[ruty]

I'll read it for you.

[ELF1981]

really?

[ruty]

Yes! Not sure if it will be useful for you but I don't mind.

[MarsLady]

Wilbur can I join in even though my writing is for a Creative Writing course currently. I do know that as I move through it my word count will increase and I will need to write something for publication. Sigh...........

[ELF1981]

Ruty - could you contact me on emma . foss @ yahoo . co . uk

If you dont mind, I could send you a few chapters to see where things could be improved?

[ruty]

ok will do. It'll just be a subjective opinion mind you not an expert one, but i'll give it a go!

[ELF1981]

fine by me

[CaptainCod]

i cant write but i haev a feww good plots in mind.

[SaveScrabulous]

Cod you'd have to work on your typing accuracy a bit....

[ELF1981]

Or get somebody to type it for you

[wilbur]

Yes, can you imagine being cod's editor? Post your plots here, cod and we can steal them - I need some new ones. Actually, you may find after years of having story ideas kicking round your head, that one day you decide just to sit down and write them. And voila, a book.

Elf - welcome and congrats for having actually finished some stuff. [doffs hat]

Marslady - cool re creative writing course - where are you doing it through? Any particular genre?

Have done bugger all today, despite it being my Writing Day, due to our boiler shutting down and the warranty people telling me that it was past its guarantee (which it isn't). So I spent all morning looking for documentation on boiler installation, then walking into town to fax it to boiler people, then phoning 3 times more to check fax had arrived and make service appt. Sigh. I bet Richard Curtis doesn't have to deal with this shit.

[CaptainCod]

my plot is to do wiht when i was the young offender mentor to a teenaed girl who ahd a serious offender brother

(here it departs from reality) then i imgaine a kind of live /loyalty thing wiht brother

( the rest is undedided)
also a crown cour ttype hting but the mag court wiht differente actors being the mags( this is very itv) and some great trials
and as its itv they cna shoev in some home life too

[wilbur]

I like the brother/sister idea. Plenty of scope for dramatic conflict . Go on, write it - take 10 mins less on your blog each day and start writing down some ideas.

[UnquietDad]

Lots of aspiring writers here. I'm impressed.
Anyone who wants professional critical feedback on their work, get in touch with me! It's one of the things I "do"... (15 years' experience of writing books and getting them published.)

[ruty]

haven't emailed you yet Elf but will - unless you want UD to do it instead!

[ruty]

[though he might be more useful]

[UnquietDad]

Ah, but ruty seems to be able to do it for nothing and I charge....!

[ruty]

it may be worth it i don't know UD. Care to expand on your credentials?

[UnquietDad]

Well... brief summary! I have 5 published novels and 3 published non-fiction books, with another contracted and on the way. I've had dealings with six different publishing houses. Represented by a leading London agent. Taught Creative Writing to adults for 5 years, and workshops in schools, libraries and other "on location" settings with groups of kids aged 8 to 18 for the past 2 years. Done loads of one-to-one feedback to writers of all ages!

[SaveScrabulous]

UQD - without giving away your identity if you don't want to, what subjects where your non-fiction books on?

You are rather well-qualified to do a read through aren't you! Very impressive.

[SaveScrabulous]

ha call myself a writer - I meant 'were' not 'where'. Ds was tugging at my arm as I was typing and I wasn't concentrating...

[finknottle]

blimey UQD



I found an online course a few years back which concentrated my mind immensely just because I had to finish assignments. Felt guilty wanting others to critique my work if I hadn't done theirs and Thursday night was always the deadline. Also it wasn't free and dh had bought me a year's sub as a present when I was knee-deep in snot (ds1 & ds2) and recrimination (self)

Best was that they had writers' groups you could also join acc to genre/temperament/not liking the other wacky ha! named ones. I used to post my assignments there too. I wrote almost exclusively bits of a novel I was working on, and I got fab feedback from one of the older writers. Pithy, always honest and invaluable.

Stopped when dd was born. She's now 5...

[CaptainCod]

ye si fall in love wihthe brother
somehitn happends wiht the siter
brother is a crim
i coevr his tracks for him when signing a warrant

tis very itv as i said

[finknottle]

lol, "Starting soon: Cod's Crime Hour, ITV, Sunday nights 8pm."

Dissected in Telly Addicts the next day.

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