FAO Writers

[DutchBantam]

Anyone ever thought about writing their own tv show / film / book?

Anyone ever seriously thought about it?

Anyone actually started?

Just wondering...... sort of.

[Rick]

Pick a few characters from here and write a soap opera, you'd have something to rival Eastenders!

[Parrot]

Im thinking of publishing my memoirs in the near futuretup: ..."The life & times of a male gigalo"....or...."How to get paid & earn a living out of pleasuring beautiful women"....can't decide which title to go for yet?:rolleyes:

[jimmy]

I have been thinking about writing a book for years.It would be a best seller imo,but i just couldnt put it together and would need someone to do it for me.Any budding writers want a go?tup:

[tony d]

Im thinking of publishing my memoirs in the near futuretup: ..."The life & times of a male gigalo"....or...."How to get paid & earn a living out of pleasuring beautiful women"....can't decide which title to go for yet?:rolleyes:

What about "my life and how i played the chicks and went ugly early????

I can think of more for you if you like....

[Parrot]

I have been thinking about writing a book for years.It would be a best seller imo,but i just couldnt put it together and would need someone to do it for me.Any budding writers want a go?tup:

I'll be your auto-biographer Jimbo, "The life & times of Walter Mitty"?:D

What about "my life and how i played the chicks and went ugly early????

I can think of more for you if you like....

Keep em coming matetup:

[panther]

I have been thinking about writing a book for years.It would be a best seller imo,but i just couldnt put it together and would need someone to do it for me.Any budding writers want a go?tup:

I would if your serious that is !

[california bantam]

after reading ervin welsch books in athens my first place i "travelled to"i was gunna doccument my travels all over the world about cheap hostels ,citys with plenty of bars an cheap booze.(cos thats what we all want right?)an some short storys of the complete loons ive met an was gunna call the book ,around the world in 80 pissups.so me an me mate made it around europe but eneded up on the piss in holland .trouble was it eneded up bein a 6 year pissup an i spent all my money on ,erm booze.true story.

[B_i_N]

Unless you're actually going to study how to write a book, the best advice I can give is just do it. That's the hardest part. You can see by this thread how many people would like to write a book.
Once you've written it, ask friends, family anyone you know who might be able to give you some good feedback to read it. Listen to what they have to say. They will normally be impressed so won't give you the brutal truth, but they should give you some idea.
If you feel confident enough then hire a literary agent to read it. This is going to cost some money, however they will give you a lot of professional objective feeback and advice.
Publishers only publish books they believe will sell, they are in it for the money. If you want to get your book published by a publisher, then it's going to have to fit into their formula for making money, which means you might have to re-write it a number of times.
My advice is just sit down and write the thing, don't do it for anybody else. Write it for yourself, the story you want to tell in the way you want to tell it, don't think about what others might want to hear. After you've finished the experience will so rewarding it won't matter whether you get it published or not. And if it does create enough interest to warrent publishing, then all the better.

[DutchBantam]

Well I'm helping out on a bit of an internet project at the moment which will be going live fairly shortly:

http://theTVproject.com

It's going to be HUGE!

[Jantje]

Whos starring in it, Nick Berry?:rolleyes: :D tup:

[DutchBantam]

Whos starring in it, Nick Berry?:rolleyes: :D tup:


Very funny Jantje :D

[Jantje]

Sorry Dutch, couldn't resist it. Seriously though i read the link & i think its an exciting idea. People in the past i suppose would write things & not know what the next step would be, wether to approach a publisher or a TV company or whatever. This gives the normal guy a platform for their work.

[eurobantam]

I had a book published in 2002 and am working on my next one. It was well recieved but sales have been disappointing, but that doesn't really matter because I got an advance. As a rule, publishers will only pay an advance to first writers of non-fiction, fiction writers just have to send in manuscripts, again and again in the hope of getting published.
While some people say just write your book and send it off, I would be wary of that as you could spend ages working on something only to be told its rubbish. A creative writing class would be a good idea for any aspiring writers as you would get feedback as you go along and you get ideas on structure etc. Writng is a solitary experience and the chance to discuss the process with others in a similar situation would be useful I reckon.
That said, one of the best books I have read in recent years, Summer in Baden Baden by Leonid Tsypskin, was written by a guy with no experience and "written for the draw" that is not for publication, and was only published after his death.

[beerbantam]

I had a book published in 2002 and am working on my next one. It was well recieved but sales have been disappointing, but that doesn't really matter because I got an advance. As a rule, publishers will only pay an advance to first writers of non-fiction, fiction writers just have to send in manuscripts, again and again in the hope of getting published.
While some people say just write your book and send it off, I would be wary of that as you could spend ages working on something only to be told its rubbish. A creative writing class would be a good idea for any aspiring writers as you would get feedback as you go along and you get ideas on structure etc. Writng is a solitary experience and the chance to discuss the process with others in a similar situation would be useful I reckon.
That said, one of the best books I have read in recent years, Summer in Baden Baden by Leonid Tsypskin, was written by a guy with no experience and "written for the draw" that is not for publication, and was only published after his death.


WHATS YOUR BOOK CALLED AND WHO IS IT BY???

I feel a J R Hartley type search coming on!!

[ChuckleBantam]

Simon's book is called, Going Down; Football in Crisis. I've read it and indeed own a copy. It's interesting and almost prophetical in predicting the boom to bust of football in recent years. It's a great book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Down-Football-in-Crisis/dp/1840186372

[Superfatbantam]

I have a copy also and would concur with Chuckle's thoughts.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1840186372.02._PE34_OU02_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It's on sale!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Down-Football-in-Crisis/dp/1840186372

[Tarty]

I would if your serious that is !

But how many chapters of "the day I got banned" would they be? :D

[eurobantam]

sales rank : 10,781 !!!!
makes you wonder why I bothered lol!

[ChuckleBantam]

sales rank : 10,781 !!!!
makes you wonder why I bothered lol!

There's only one copy left though!!