Creative Writing

Here are my ideas: -write about a girl who goes to find gold because her family is poor, later she enters the Bermuda triangle and her ship is wrecked, she later swims to a near island where she has to learn to survive with the things she has. -a boy (who can talk to animals) receives the news that his parents shipped was wrecked last night. He and all his animal friends go on a brave adventure to hel rescue his parent. -pretend your a retired pirate and tell the story of how you survived the worst ship wreck of all time.

Any idea that is interesting enough to you will be a good idea. You cannot write a story or novel based on ideas that someone else invents - you won't be interested enough in the subject to be able to research and write anything that will actually sell.

If you want someone to tell you what to write, ask your English teacher for an extra assignment -- that's what you're doing here, you know. Plus, anonymous people on the internet have no idea how old you are, what your interests are, or how well you can write!

In order to write, you need a personal connection to the subject. Write about whatever you enjoy, or whatever you find interesting, and you will end up with your novel or story.

WikiAnswers is happy to help you learn how to write better. We will not do your writing for you by giving you ideas and paragraphs to copy.

Here are some more suggestions from WikiAnswers contributors:

• Write about what you know. A good idea for a first novel is to write your own personal story. Everyone has at least one novel in them waiting to be written.

• Observe the world around you. Anything interesting can be an idea for a story or novel.

• Research. The more you know, the more ideas you will have.

• Read stories and books that other authors have written in your chosen genre. This way, you can see how other people do things.

A story can be either plot driven, character driven, or both. Most are stories are both but one or the other usually takes precedence. Charles Dickens' novels are primarily character driven Ian Flemings' are plot driven (although all the plots are the same.) If you need a place to start - trying thinking up interesting characters who can be developed and evolved against an interesting plot, or think up a good crisis that characters can be illuminated through.

It doesn't matter what we thing -- you're the author so you're the one who has to like it! Just be sure you use proper English writing techniques and send it off to a publisher.

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Writing has many effects on the writer, including increased :

• knowledge in specific subjects after research
• sense of mastery of writing skills
• sense of personal abilities, self esteem, etc. - but a decreased sense of worth regarding lack of publishing even with maximum efforts
• ability to communicate via the written word
• frustration over not being published, unless a Staff writer
• struggles to make money equal to the effort writing takes
• disillusionment with the field of publishing
• efforts to obtain personal satisfaction in writing, regardless of whether it is published

NOTE: Only a few authors ever 'get rich' through writing. Even professionals with Ph.D.'s earn very little for commercial writing, e.g. books.

Only you can come up with a good name! Titles come from the story, not from some anonymous person on the internet! Titles are not as important as some writers think - your title might change many times between your first write and your final draft!

Think about your story - what is going on and who are the people involved? What is something special about the story that might make a good title? Don't sweat it - just write something down and get on with the story!

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Saying that a Mary Sue is a character that suceeds at everything, or everyone falls in love with, though this is the very basic form of Mary Sue. While making sure that ones characters has strenghts and weaknesses, one can't go and base that as the only thing that makes the characters Sues. This is more for fanfiction, then original work...

1.) Don't make characters OoC... When a canon character no longer acts like a canon character, they are an OC (original character) desquised to look like a canon character.

2.) Don't make changes to canon characters... For example, some fanfics I see, will go and change only one characters age and physical attributes, just to fit their OC. This is a huge no-no!

3.) Pay attention to canon... When you break canon, and make it fit your OC, instead of making the OC, fit the canon, it is rather taking liberties with the work.

4.) Be believable... Goes for both fanfiction and original work. Do ones research, don't make the reader come in and go, that can't happen...

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WRITE-First, get a notebook and start writing. Keep a journal in which you can record your life, like a diary -- or better yet write your thoughts about events in your life (or the lives of those around you, or news events), or books you've read and movies and TV shows you've watched. What's good about them, what's bad? What's ordinary, what's odd or strange?

EDIT-Every so often, go back over what you wrote and see if you can fix up your writing: correct any misspellings, change a word here and there to make your meaning clearer, or re-organize a sentence. This will improve your writing, so that everything you write will be better

One way to develop a plot would be first to think of something important or interesting that happened in your life, or where you live, and imagine what could have been different about it. Brainstorm a while, writing down everything from minor modifications to wild and crazy outcomes.

Look over your list and see if anything grabs you. If not, brainstorm some more, or pick a different event.

To work on characters it's a good idea to write down something about everyone you know well in a notebook. Describe how they look, how they talk and act, and how (you guess) they feel.

This should be private, because you don't want the possibility of a friend reading something that sounds negative about them. To further avert this possibility, you might label the top of the page CHARACTERS and give each one a quite different name. In addition, you could add one or two invented "facts" about each one to further disguise their identities.

I personally like playing with characters. Once with a friend also interested in writing, we wrote down on slips of paper various attributes (one to each piece of paper) -- how old they were; where they worked or went to school; something about their clothes, something they were holding or carrying.

We each did several slips on each attribute, the sorted them face down into piles on the table, sort of shuffled. We picked a slip form each pile and then had to write a little story about that character in a way that accounted for their assortment of attributes.