CrazyyAngel
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Well ... its about time I start my own thread here 
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I recently stumbled over a fanfiction piece someone on another forum has written. It is a star trek series, completely written by one person. And here is the funny part ... a quick calculation revealed some astonishing numbers.
Its more than 2500 MS Word pages which leads to over 1.3 million words (given 500 words per page). Which leads to the equivalent of about 12 to 17 average sized novels (given the average size of a novel is about 80.000 to 100.000 words).
Thats pretty awesome. And now I am asking myself some questions (and you some later ). If I recount the amount of writings I have put together in my life, it will hardly make for 50.000 words, let alone a million. I want to be a writer some day, want to make a living off of it.
Last year, I've bought Natalie Goldbergs "Writing down the bones" (maybe some of you know it or have even read it). She says one should write as much as one can. I have recently finished reading this book and started to write, no matter how crappy it was. Maybe I'll get the training to write a real novel one day. Writing is kind of relaxing actually and it can be great fun.
But I realize now I haven't even begun to write enough to call myself a writer. I have only finished a story for Lit, and a poem. But apart from that I dont have finished anything which could be a story. In most cases I havent even started to write them, as I mostly just write down the idea and thats it. I wonder if I will ever be able to motivate myself long enough to actually finish something ...
So ... you now ask yourself, whats the point of this thread? Good question ...
What I wanna know is, how much have you written in your life? In novels, short stories or in how many pages/words ...? Have you ever published something besides here on Lit? How do you motivate yourself to do the "dirty work", i.e. the writing itself every day?
CA
.I recently stumbled over a fanfiction piece someone on another forum has written. It is a star trek series, completely written by one person. And here is the funny part ... a quick calculation revealed some astonishing numbers.
Its more than 2500 MS Word pages which leads to over 1.3 million words (given 500 words per page). Which leads to the equivalent of about 12 to 17 average sized novels (given the average size of a novel is about 80.000 to 100.000 words).
Thats pretty awesome. And now I am asking myself some questions (and you some later
). If I recount the amount of writings I have put together in my life, it will hardly make for 50.000 words, let alone a million. I want to be a writer some day, want to make a living off of it.Last year, I've bought Natalie Goldbergs "Writing down the bones" (maybe some of you know it or have even read it). She says one should write as much as one can. I have recently finished reading this book and started to write, no matter how crappy it was. Maybe I'll get the training to write a real novel one day. Writing is kind of relaxing actually and it can be great fun.
But I realize now I haven't even begun to write enough to call myself a writer. I have only finished a story for Lit, and a poem. But apart from that I dont have finished anything which could be a story. In most cases I havent even started to write them, as I mostly just write down the idea and thats it. I wonder if I will ever be able to motivate myself long enough to actually finish something ...
So ... you now ask yourself, whats the point of this thread? Good question ...
What I wanna know is, how much have you written in your life? In novels, short stories or in how many pages/words ...? Have you ever published something besides here on Lit? How do you motivate yourself to do the "dirty work", i.e. the writing itself every day?
CA
