http://incredibooks.com/ibdiscuss/ Talk about the books you've read en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:39:52 +0000 http://incredibooks.com/ibdiscuss/topic/project-fan#post-3436 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:28:14 +0000 Sarah 3436@http://incredibooks.com/ibdiscuss/ <p>Some friends of mine started Project FAN and I wanted to let y'all know about it....</p> <p>Project FAN (Finish A Novel) is for Christian writers with half-finished novels laying around. The goal during the month of March is to get it done! See below address for more details:<br /> <a href="http://www.annekriley.com/projectfan" rel="nofollow">http://www.annekriley.com/projectfan</a> </p> http://incredibooks.com/ibdiscuss/topic/encouragement-and-venting-for-budding-writers#post-579 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:36:47 +0000 Pip 579@http://incredibooks.com/ibdiscuss/ <p>Reading so much really gets you to wondering: "Perhaps I could write something worth reading?" Lotsa people have tried, lotsa people have failed...but a few have succeeded! Here's my story.<br /> My siblings and I used to play very elaborate games. We picked our names, where we lived, what color eyes we had! We'd decided one night to pretend that we were tropical islanders, playing ball in a village by the sea. My 'name' was Dulcimecheck (I was 11, ok, don't laugh!) and my siblings' 'name' was Romanza. That started it. A month or so later, near the end of summer, I suddenly blurted, "I think I am going to write a novel!" "Cool." So I sat at the family computer, stared at the screen for a while, and then started a novel. It was about a girl named Romanza who lived in a tropical village by the sea. Her friend's name was Dulcimecheck, or Dulcia for short.<br /> That's the origin. In the beginning, the novel was to be set in Chile. But after naming one of my characters Parsadies, my older sibling to whom a good start at this nutty writing bonanza is dedicated suggested I make up a world. So it became the island of Heveria. I have always loved the sea and islands, having been born onto an island (literally). They both play a major role in my book. Over the course of two years, I wrote madly despite sticky mouses and crumy keyboards on several family computers and finally, on December 27, '07, I typed out the long-awaited words "The End". Oh, what a feeling! 350 one-sided pages holding a fantasy including my whole family (and a character named Pip!) and much material on outcasts, enjoying life, forgiveness and fighting, suffering, laughing for the Lord. I am now editing the book.<br /> Advice: Write what you know. I stuck in lessons that I've learned, my family, things I was familar with such as battles, cats, fortresses and tall dudes with long, sharp noses!<br /> A Fantastic World: I discovered the need for me to vent my leadership tendencies with my writing. No research, no boundries held me back from creating the wildest, weirdest fantasy I could crank out. (Not to mention no very good spell-checkers, to put reins on my still-tender writing abilities!) I was (see below) a "sub-creator", and it felt glorious.<br /> What I've learned over the past almost 3 years is that however high and mighty it sounds, God called me to write this book because there's not that much good fantasy lit out there today! I was meant to write something that would not only nourish me and my family, but also glorify God. Give Him all, do it for Him! "Heveria" is God's book first, then mine. That's my policy. I openly speak about Christianity in my book, decidedly presenting the God-glorifying worldview for the reader to ponder. I don't care what the critics will say once I send it to an publisher's house, God-willing!<br /> So what's your story? POST IT!!! </p>