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Originally Posted by Less
Well, at the moment I'm re-reading the foundation Isaac Asimov.
The thing is, never mind the twists and turns of the plot, it's the extra detail Authors put into each sentence that keeps us turning the pages, we all wish we could write a best seller, but how much imagination do we need to deserve to have it published?
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Have never read any of Asimov's books -not really a fan of Sci-Fi apart from John Wyndham which I read as a young teen. The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos and The Kraken Wakes come to mind as well as The Chrysallids...
More than imagination for getting published you need a lot of luck (as well as the inevitable "talent"). I have just finished a re-working of the first draft of my attempt at a novel.( Bear in mind the last piece of creative writing I did was in 1982 for my Gen. Studies A-level!) I started it in Jan 2012 and completed the first draft in Nov 2012. Left it to stew for a while and then went back over some bits and struggled to write a synopsis. I have had 7 refusals in the meantime -all very nice refusals though
which is why I have done a bit of re-working before trying to send it out to another round of agents.
The imagination comes before the publishing stage in creating believable characters, describing their lives and actions and making everything fit together and tie up at the end in a satisfactory way. All the factual details have to be researched and checked -which takes as much time as the actual writing, and when you are making characters take part in real events, like two wars for example, you have to get it right!
My own story is set over 100 years from 1912-2012 and for 90% is set in the North of England -it starts off with a love story in Italy and also ends up back in Italy 100 years later. Probably not your genre Less as it is quite romantic! Accyweb actually features in the last chapter so if it ever does get published I hope it will sell well and give the forum some publicity!
Probably all "pie in the sky" - I'm not thinking that I have written a best-seller but it would be nice just to get it published. I would love to see it in print and not just on my computer screen anymore! (All 380 pages of it!)
It seems it is much easier to write a novel than to get it published.
Oh, to tie in with the thread properly what have I been reading recently? A manuscript by an "as yet" un-published author called "The Passion Flower" !
