I am thinking about starting my first book and I was wondering if anyone has any advice to give me 4 it?

I am thinking about starting my first book and I was wondering if anyone has any advice to give me for it?


I have wanted to start a book before, but everytime I get about 5 chapters into the story I chicken out, and immeadiatly bail my project. I chicken out because I am somewhat paranoid, and feel that people are watching me write the book. It feels akward that people I know will read my book. And as crazy as this may sound...I dislike getting comments, be they good or bad. Let's stray from that for a bit.





About writing the book, are there any difficulties to get through while writing it?I am thinking about starting my first book and I was wondering if anyone has any advice to give me 4 it?
Yes, Calm Down. You are having problems as you said, just take a deep breathe and think about your book and your book alone when write. Don't be worried that when someone you knows gets offended by it, besides if it does you shouldn't care. What if Tolkien chickened out or if Rowling said 'I'm scared that people won't like it.' Just let yourself go and write what you want, when you want, and where you want.





Good Luck! ; )I am thinking about starting my first book and I was wondering if anyone has any advice to give me 4 it?
1.st peace of advice, never give up, stories come to you in bits and pieces and in no real order, its up to you to sort it out. be prepared also to reread it several times to iron out all the details.
The big problem is probably that you're looking around your room and seeing finished novels. They were only five chapters long at one time too! Just get through it, finish it, and then pick it apart. You don't get graded on a half finished test. And as for feeling awkward about friends reading your book, just think, you've finished a book - they haven't.
First of all, good for you! Second, the world if full of 30 page novels stuffed in drawers so you aren't alone. In fact, you actually may have gotten farther than the rest.





The reason you're getting discouraged at five chapters is you're probably passed all the exposition and introductions and therefore you're hitting the middle which frankly is the hardest part for most writers.





The solution to this is varied. A lot of writers don't do a lot of explicit planning and simply say to keep going on and don't stop even when it's hard. But, like painting, I believe writing is a learned art that maximizes talent. So, I think you might want to explore the structure of your story and find where the obstacle is that stops you from writing the middle.





I believe your problem can be resolved when you examine the meaning of your story and its structure then you will easily move past the beginning into the middle and then to the climax and conclusion.





While there's a lot to explore with your story's meaning and structure, your middle is where your character(s) should be engaging in progressive complications that hinder their objects of desires -- this is conflict which is the soul of your story. As your characters confront conflict, they are forced to make decisions. As they make decisions we learn about who they are because it is in those decisions that we display our soul.





But you need to know the general direction your character(s) are going and know what your story is about. This is all easier said than done.





Some questions you should ask that will help:





Do you know your ending? (It doesn't have to dictate your story, but it helps to know where you're going)


What is your story about? (Not necessarily what happens)


Do you have any major reversals in your story?


Did you structure your act design?


What and where's your inciting incident?


What does your main character desire?


What does your main character secretly desire (maybe even in conflict with the other desire -- this produces irony).


What blocks your main characters' desires?


What are the scene objectives?


Have you created a step-outline of your story?





There's a tutorial and articles which explores the story's structure that may be helpful at www.storyentertainment.com to help you answer those questions and more if you do not know.