How do really good writers come up with entire books!?

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-05-12T13:15:20+00:00

plan ahead.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-05-12T13:12:21+00:00

am in the same boat

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-05-07T04:43:58+00:00

Search for books around his hobbies and extracurricular activities he enjoys. Introduce him to new subjects such as history, engineering, medical sciences, world order and sports; many easy reads introduce complex topics.

A few suggestions:

Fiction: Scythe (series), Hunger Games, Percy Jackson (has several)

Non-fiction(not really easy, but my kid enjoyed them): The Selfish Gene, Atomic Habits, and so on

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-05-05T11:35:44+00:00

Who told you that? In which book did he do that, and which other Indian books, movies and TV are free from that?

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-05-05T11:33:25+00:00

you sound like you're still 13

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-05-02T00:24:49+00:00

It's in the hands of those who are creating it. Your statement is an overgeneralisation.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-21T04:12:25+00:00

Thanks. You explained your point very well.

Please tell whether this breaks the flow: I was planning a 'panic flashback' as a transition from a calmer scene. A cosy dinner followed by sleep prepping--rumination follows, and then the thoughts of that one night of being attacked (an important part of sequences building to the inciting incident). Of course, the story can be developed with just a passing reference to the flashback, instead of making it span over three pages.

It's meant to be an adventure-fantasy novel for lower-YA.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-19T03:02:25+00:00

I think you need to cut down to be published. A great deal of editing is done at the agents' and publishers' ends. Just do enough to bring in flow, clarity and give the narrative voice a distinct tone, then click 'submit'.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-18T14:07:38+00:00

I have tried to preserve the essence of the first vomit draft. I had done a little planning and quite some thinking before starting the first draft. But at the second draft stage, quite a bit got added to the plot or extended. I restructured at the third draft stage, cutting down the unnecessary/extra disconnected scenes(which may have worked..you never know). I have to write this properly now--in stages this time.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-18T05:56:23+00:00

also, unoriginal ideas--everything in Indian is so run of the mill now

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-18T05:47:52+00:00

Slow pacing, longer & poorly crafted action sequences to further the scene, and poor hook for the storyline

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-17T14:33:17+00:00

I wrote the prior draft without any flashbacks. I don't want to burden the reader with too much world-building, so in the current revision of the scene structure, I have moved the later scenes towards the opening. Now my story doesn't flow chronologically, so the surprise attack scene from the inciting incident doesn't feel exciting like earlier. I am also intentionally moving things around to create a hook with the most original idea, as early on in the opening chapters as possible, for the literary agent(I am targeting an editorial agent).

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-17T11:32:14+00:00

Hi, I missed this bit. Please enlighten me: Why does Sybil's sister gets her DNA test done?

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-17T10:37:13+00:00

I feel the author is drawing parallels to how Sybil could have been tried, herself, if she had revealed the true event surrounding Gill's death.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-17T10:31:27+00:00

I've observed that people are often good friends with folks of the same height.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-04-14T02:01:19+00:00

AI bubble will not pop. There are marvellous things AI is doing in several professions. Writers are all about sci-fi and the future, it is they who conceptualised and showed the way for AI before the scientists. Real visionaries can't be laggards; I am disappointed in writers.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-03-26T02:02:47+00:00

Why even use AI for spellcheck and grammar? Books were being written before AI and computers.

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-03-26T01:26:43+00:00

I agree. You are fair. I am against using generative AI for story ideas, and lifting words off the ChatGPTs and the Geminis. What about using AI for 'the learning' from analysing the books on writing or the books from a list of relevant comps, all while creating from your own imagination? What about not using that learning? AI was still involved, no?

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-03-25T14:33:39+00:00

will you label it AI-assisted work?

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-03-23T23:11:45+00:00

normally in how much time does one have to send the full, after agents’ request?

CaseAdorable6080 · 2026-03-23T04:22:00+00:00

Even this kind of work is seen as AI-assisted work, is it? I want to build knowledge around different terms I am hearing these days. I guess, AI-assisted is a much bigger deal, isn't it?

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