confidence to write a book

I dream of getting my own book published. I have not written any yet. But I have been writing short articles here and there. I think it is a great way to gain confidence. Writing a book takes a lot of patience and I feel that I may lose interest along the way. Unlike that, writing articles is a lot shorter and you can complete them in a few minutes. If you can write a few hundred articles, they can easily make a book. So start gaining confidence with shorter pieces. You can publish them online, let others read and comment. Positive comments from your readers will encourage you even more and before you know it, you will be hooked into writing. All the best!

I think online courses or some of the related website can give the inspiration as well as ideas how to start and where to start. You will need lot of patience and months or even years to complete the writing. I have personally experienced the problem of disorientation. I have written about 10 pages in one month and then was busy with other jobs for few weeks, later it was very hard to co relate to the previously written articles. I had to start a new again. I earnestly hope that you would suceed in writing bestseller.

I think you just need to let yourself have a little time to create without pressure. Don't think about producing a bestseller; just let yourself write and let things fall into place. If you do produce a bestseller, that's amazing...but before books become bestsellers they first must be conceived and developed. I think you're putting the cart before the horse and putting too much pressure on yourself to deliver a million dollar idea. Perhaps sometimes you have to have a million $1 ideas before you get that big inspirational one. It's time to take off the reins and just let yourself write!

You just have to sit down and write. You can try writing and thinking that no one else would read it anyway until you're done with it - if you never end up finishing it then no one would know! :D It's how I "try" to write poems. I think becoming a best seller isn't really about good writing anymore - you just have to have an audience and you have to catch their attention. What about the Twilight series? The very first of those is crap although the others showed improvements. But it still ended up with a huge fan base :D If that book can make it as a best seller then even I can do it :D And so can you! Thanks for the response on my discussion!

Confidence? Is that my problem? Starting when I was about 11 or 12 and going all through high school, I wrote a "book" every summer vacation. Granted, they were handwritten and in a spiral notebook but they had a beginning, middle, and end and made pretty decent sense when they were finished. In college I wrote (typed on the computer which goes much faster than writing in notebook) 30,000 words in a little more than 3 days. Even had a complete stranger compare it to Stephen King (I think he was full of crap but that's another story). Now that I am older and out of school, I struggle to write anything I think other people would want to read. I've even tried pulling some of those old plots out of my memory and rewriting them because YA fantasy/horror fiction is a huge market (thank you so much, J. K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer). Nothing. I hadn't thought until now that loss of confidence in my talent could be culprit.

I'm not sure! I also have had the same day-dreams - that I would write this amazing book and never have to work again. So far, I've written about one page and then ran out of ideas. It's way harder than it sounds to write a book, that's for sure. I think the best thing you can do is try to get creative and motivated and just start writing and see what happens. Of course, that is easier said than done!

Forgot one thing that I wanted to tell you in terms of confidence. Here's my favorite quote, "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." Think of all of the wonderful books that you've read that wouldn't have been written if the author didn't think that he or she could write. What a loss that would have been to all of us. Sorry that I'm so wordy!!!

I completed my first book last month and I'm in the rewrite process now. Hope to have the rewrite done by the end of the year and I'm going to submit it to an agent in January. I'm working on the outline of my second novel in between the two. I never took an online course but I bought a couple of books that we really helpful. The first is the Marshall Plan and the second one is Book In a Month. Where to get inspiration? Look around you. I knew that I wanted to write a mystery novel and that I wanted it to be a satire. The inspiration for my novel was the character that I developed. Most advice is to write what you know. I knew nothing about my character's occupation so I had to do a lot of research but I did set the novel up in a setting that I'm quite familiar with. Just start writing and most of your inspiration will come along the way. The last draft of my novel is much different from the outline and from the first draft. Good luck.