Writing Help-Group For Everyone discussion

Hey, my name is Phoebe, and i was wondering what you guys out there are, with a choice between being only a writer, not a reader, or the other way around! ^.^

You can also be both, if u do both equally, more or less.

Anyway, i am a reader, not a writer, how about you guys?

I am both. Honest as it goes. I am, as I state so many times to anybody who cares to ask, currently engaged in the harrowing task of writing my first novel. I aim to get it published, it is not simply a game for me (though I've had great fun writing it!). However, my desire to write would have never come about had I not also enjoyed reading. Both are two of my most favorite hobbies.

Julius wrote: "I am both. Honest as it goes. I am, as I state so many times to anybody who cares to ask, currently engaged in the harrowing task of writing my first novel. I aim to get it published, it is not sim..."

'esire'? Don't you mean 'desire'? :P
Most people have to enjoy reading to write, otherwise the story may not be as entertaining as one might think. Publishing a book sounds especially hard to do, from the ways you guys talk about it. But it must be satisfying to have a book published, though. All the hard work one puts into a story paying off. :)

I am definitely both. I love to read, but I love to write. And yes, the road to publishing is very time consuming journey, with many obstacles to face & a great deal of learning - but it's a journey that I have loved to go on & I wouldn't have got through it without devouring so many books on the way.

I keep telling my friend she should publish one day. Like, when she's old enough, lol. :P
But she has stopped writing my favourite story by her. And i wanna know the ending! :(

That's the worst. She has to finish it. If she doesn't owe it to herself, she owes it to you at least... LOL

Kelly wrote: "That's the worst. She has to finish it. If she doesn't owe it to herself, she owes it to you at least... LOL"

I know right! I mean, she KNEW i was hooked on that story. She just KNEW. And she never continued it! DX D:
Yeah, she DOES owe me that much. Particularly the end....

Both of course. I was a reader before I was a writer however. I've been a reader ever since I was 6.

wow.

I became a big-time reader in 2nd grade when i read the Harry Potter series. I read it again in 3rd grade. I've read about 5 series since then.

I'm also a writer but between dance, my boarding school, and basketball i hardly have time to write.

Well, it's nice to read a series, and once-in-a-while to write a story, even if it's only a couple sentences long! :P

Haha ive never read a short series and my books i write are usually at least 10pg

Same! But I'm starting to get into the habit of writing, so maybe that at-least-ten-pages-long will change into a chapter-or-two, hopefully! :D

I love long series. I devour them 'quicker than a beever does wood', to use my friends words.

Ya i luv reading & writing i'd never be able to choose just one. Would u?

Never. I enjoy them too much! I especially like the ones that are really long in a series but are good reads, too. Never the same plotline, words, or covers! :)

Yes. What are some books/series you've read?

Well, where would one start with such a wonderous world of books around us? A good series is the Riyria Revelations. I've already read them, but I'm re-reading them again because they're excillent! The Hunchback Assignments and the Skulduggery Pleasant series are good, equally solid fiction reads, too.

Hmm...i've read all fanasy series...

Really? Got any recomends? I'm in need of some more books to read. I'm lucky if i can find a book in my library that i HAVEN'T read. I don't seem to have much luck with that. O.o

Well...Avalon: Web of Magic was one of my fave series.

I'm kind of both, I read a lot, but I also write sometimes, but I never really let anyone read my writings. :)

Haha same here until it's published.

I haven't published any of my writings...mostly because I never seem to finish them...maybe I will some day...:)

If u do can i get a first copy? lolz

Sure. :D LOL

Yay! ;P

:D

One thing that I'm writing on Goodreads is called Coco's Law (based on a show called Garrow's Law, except with Crash Bandicoot characters), maybe I'll finally finish writing it one day. XD

Cool!

I'm writing a book called: The Unlucky Penny. Maybe one day i'll finish it.

I'm also going to eventually write a story about Opa-Opa (from a game called Fantasy Zone).

Can you tell I play way to many video games XD.

I'm also writing a Warrior Cats story with characters that I came up with.

Cool! I'm not a big fan of Video Games...

I have more stories that I half wrote that aren't based on video games....I've just been to slack to put them on goodreads. :)

Haha im only writing one.

I'm writing about 20 at the same time, XD

I should stop writing so many so I can focus on just one.

Ya...

Claire wrote: "I'm writing about 20 at the same time, XD

I should stop writing so many so I can focus on just one."

Yeah, that sounds a bit hard to juggle! :D

I'm an avid reader who has also written & published more than 35 books. I'm here because the only thing I like more than writing is helping other writers. I included more details on my background under "Introductions."

It's interesting to see if other people are more into the reading, or if they are more interested in the writing part. :)

I am a reader all the way!!!!! I would love to write, someday... maybe. I like writing but I get bored really quickly from all the technical stuff like using the right punctuation and sentence structure, I wish I could just put all my ideas into a big machine and then it would pump out the finished product just as I imagined it!!

Zoe wrote: "I am a reader all the way!!!!! I would love to write, someday... maybe. I like writing but I get bored really quickly from all the technical stuff like using the right punctuation and sentence stru..."

What a great idea, Zoe. Invent that one and you'll make a million. :)

I'd buy it!

Kelly wrote: "I'd buy it!"

Me, too, Kelly. And a bazillion other writers.

Roald Dahl wrote a brilliant short story about a machine that could do just that as I recall. I loved the idea in his story and the way he explored it.

Definitely both. In my opinion, you really can't be a writer and not be a reader. I love being both. There's nothing more satisfying and pleasing that writing something you are proud of or of curling up with a good book...and you learn so much by doing both.

By doing both, you expand your imagination to reach into the depths that before you couldn't even begin to achieve to imagine.

@ Zoe: Wish there was actually such a machine. But then again, why would you pass up brainstorming your own stories with no machinery involved in creating it? :)

Claire wrote: "I haven't published any of my writings...mostly because I never seem to finish them...maybe I will some day...:)"

I hope you do.

both

yayz :P


Can't really have one without the other croping up, can ya?

.................................if you request me to read your writting don't expect me to get to it..since i aint bother

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...

nuh-duh. :)