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Originally Posted by kane
I have published short stories, sold a couple of movie scripts to very small production companies that never saw the light of day and use to write for a couple of music magazines, but this is my first book.
The book is fiction. It is a mystery/thriller about a woman who's husband of 21 years is dying of a brain tumor. On his death bed he confesses to her that for the last three years he has been killing people. She is freaked out, but assumes he is hallucinating. He dies the next day and slowly she starts to find things that make her believe he wasn't lying to her. What she doesn't know is that he had a partner and that partner knows about her and wants her dead before she can learn his identity.
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Well congrats upon your success. The premise sounds like it could be made into an entertaining movie...in my opinion...and if you can't get a publisher to publish it...and since you have some experience in writing a movie script...you may want to entertain that thought.
I have made a couple of attempts to write a book...and learned that it is very difficult for me to combine together enough words to complete a book. My attempts turned into novelettes and I was far from satisfied with the results...so I did not make an effort to get them published. If I had more patience I probably could complete a book but it would not be the "great American novel" and would not make much money or garner much fame so I will not do so.
I remember one famous American author who was interviewed on the Carson show and he was asked how he went about writing a book. He was asked do you have an inspiration and then sit down and begin writing. He said no...that if he waited for inspiration...he would never get a book written. He said that he would sit down and begin writing and at the end of the day he would have written crap or possibly something worthwhile to be added to his novel...and stated that he did not find much joy in writing..but found it to be work.