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Who would love to become a author I do to. We can talk about being authors and talk about other stuff.☺

I once wrote a novel in the fall of 1996. But didn't have a 2nd story inside me.

Oh, can u buy it?

Fin, I sent it to two German publishing houses and they both were not interested. It's in German. This was before I immigrated to the US.

My goal in life is to become an author. I'm currently in the middle of writing a dystopian novel :)

Shawna wrote: "My goal in life is to become an author. I'm currently in the middle of writing a dystopian novel :)"

That's good news. Go for it!

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Oh, sorry Christine, I didnt know. But thats cool My grandpa is from Germeny.

I have many works in progress, and only one novella completed but not published, however I do have poetry published in different anthologies.

That's so cool

I have one novel out but I'm publishing one chapter every week on Wattpad.

I started a fantasy novel in wattpad and its still unfinished lol

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ill follow.you

wants your name on wattpad

My wattpad name is PJOfandom5746

I wrote "Nantucket Winter" in the fall of 1996. Sent it to two German publishing houses, but they told me it was not dense enough (whatever that means). So I've never tried sending it to another publisher.

Oh that's cool you should try one more time and maybe change some things or somethings

Well, its a pre-Internet novel and there are no cell phones in my story. I doubt it would find a publisher nowadays.

Me! I've written and self-published two books, with two more in the works. I'm also working on a Nutcracker retelling novella for my history project (I have a cool teacher) and a Keeper of the Lost Cities fanfiction

Christine, why don't you try self-publishing?

I wanna get Wattpad so bad. I need to talk to my parents about it

Cari wrote: "Christine, why don't you try self-publishing?"


It's too expensive.
Plus I don't possess the typical sales person personality.

Christine, there are other ways to go about it. Have you tried submitting a manuscript? There are many smaller publishers who accept unsolicited work.

Yes, TKZ, that's what I tried in 1996.

At that point I was so sick and tired about German publishers only publishing novels set in Germany. I thought that a novel by a German author about a German woman who goes for several months to Nantucket to do house sitting for her friend would be something new. Obviously the German publishers didn't think so. Oh well, it's their loss, not mine. :)

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I bet your book is really good. Are you ever going to try to write a new one?

Fin wrote: "I bet your book is really good. Are you ever going to try to write a new one?"


Unfortunately I'm not an author. I had only this one novel inside me (and later on I realized it was my manual for how to escape an abusive husband).
Besides it's in German and my English is good enough for every day interaction with Americans, but it's certainly not good enough to be an author. So I rather read and enjoy other people's novels.

You have a really cool story, thanks for sharing☺

Christine, don't sell yourself short. If there is one, I am sure there are more inside of you. Maybe look for a local writing group or join the website Nanowrimo. It's a community of writers.

I agree that's a.goid idea

Fin wrote: "You have a really cool story, thanks for sharing☺"


Thank you for your encouraging words.

TKZ wrote: "Christine, don't sell yourself short. If there is one, I am sure there are more inside of you. Maybe look for a local writing group or join the website Nanowrimo. It's a community of writers."


I could write autobiographies. My life was rather unusual compared with my former class mates who mostly stayed all life long in Germany.
In March 1997 after I had left my first former husband, I drove all by myself in an RV from Vancouver to Los Angeles. I wrote a travel journal about that trip.

Interesting. I'm sure there are moments in your life you could journal and mold into a story as well.

TKZ wrote: "Interesting. I'm sure there are moments in your life you could journal and mold into a story as well."



I could turn it into a "run from an abusive husband" story. :)
Just like "See Mommy Run" by Nancy Baker Jacobs.

I would read that

that's sounds really good

Hi...getting started in the right direction csn be a dillema, just ask me. I didn't want to fail so I contemplated for 3 months thinking about how not to. Then, it occurred to me that if I didn't start I xouldn't finish. It was a cool crisp clear morning in Maine when I wrote the first lines with no clear notion of where I was going, which became a project ±two years and 456 pages later, Macom Farm emerged from proably ten reams of misstarts and dead end tangents. It quietly debuted to 5-star ratings and great reviews, one of my favorites reads "The most intriguing book you'll read this year." Well, we'll see, if the royalties start piling up. So far, so good, so on to the next, The Copper Goose, due out in May.
Once you get started its hard to stop. Tom

I like it

Tom wrote: "Hi...getting started in the right direction csn be a dillema, just ask me. I didn't want to fail so I contemplated for 3 months thinking about how not to. Then, it occurred to me that if I didn't s..."

Once you get started, your characters develop a life of their own and all you have to do is listen to them and write it down. My experience.

i would not be an author in like made up story's/books, but i would love to write a book about my life and everything i've been trough

I could write a 800+ pages book about my life. I got divorced twice, I drove from Vancouver to Los Angeles in an RV all by myself, I did white water rafting, motorcycle trips to Corsica and the Baltic Sea, worked for a movie magazine, wrote a novel in 1996, immigrated to the US when I was 46, experienced the lousy job situation over here in the US etc etc etc. :)

Every life is a story waiting to be told. Starting and finishing are the tricky parts.

You are right!