Leah Said:

novel writing ideas? opinions?

We Answered:

Interesting idea. Already intrigued lol
Questions, I was already wondering: What happened to the "uncles" wife? and when did the girl's mom die? Why does her dad want them to move to Florida? Where are they residing now?

Anywho,
Good Luck!

Minnie Said:

Book writing ideas? Or novel writing ideas? ?

We Answered:

If you want it to relate to your life without being boring, maybe that's exactly what you should do with the book. Create a character with a life very much like yours, but who has the drive to make life interesting. What does she do differently than you? The people she chooses to hang out with? The things she chooses to do in her free time? Maybe she's determined to do something amazing with her life? Maybe somebody she knew died, and she's determined not to waste her life? Maybe her goal is to make life more interesting for everyone around her?

Even if you don't turn this into a novel that you could actually get published or anything, it would at least help you learn something about yourself. That's the main reason I write. It's a way for me to figure out what's important to me, and to find out if there's something wrong in my life that I'm secretly trying not to think about. My subconscious thoughts always come out when I write

Leona Said:

What are some ideas for writing a novel that can NOT be made into a movie, due to its structure?

We Answered:

Why are you bothered about your book being made into a movie? Very few books are made into movies to begin with (though many more books are optioned, meaning that whoever pays for the option has the right to make a movie based on the book). Are you worried the studio will ruin it? You retain the copyright when the book is published, so it's your decision as to whether to sell the movie rights. (Partly your decision, anyway - if the book is very successful, and/or the studio is offering a lot of money, your publisher and/or agent will put a lot of pressure on you to sell.)

Look at books that have been adapted into films recently, and work out what they have in common. Then make your book not like that.

Film is mainly a visual medium. Therefore, an obvious way to make a story unfilmable is to have most or all of the story not be visual. Tell the story through a character's thoughts and feelings, or through long conversations. Mainstream movies tend to have linear chronology and a strong sense of plot (though strong plots are another matter entirely!). Do away with either or both and you'll make the story hard to film.

The alternative is to tell a straightforward story that would be too expensive to film. The Lord of the Rings was considered unfilmable for decades because of this. Big locations and a large cast of supporting characters are the obvious costly things, although computer graphics have advanced to the point where almost anything you can imagine, you can put on the screen.

A mixture of human and non-human characters is another good one. (If they're all non-human, it will be animated. Make sure the non-humans aren't human-shaped or sized, so they can't be played by a human in a rubber suit.)

Or how about making all the main characters look similar or identical (clones?), so that a reader can tell them apart when you refer to them by name, but a viewer watching them on a screen can't?

Another option is an environment that's very different from the surface of the Earth - underwater, for example, or in zero-gravity, or on another planet where gravity is much stronger or weaker than Earth's. Make sure you use the environment in a way that's vital to the story, such that the story couldn't work like that if it happened on the surface of the Earth. Otherwise the film-makers will ignore that and make the environment work like our own.

Miguel Said:

I'm writing a novel - any creative ideas on the setting of a spirit world?

We Answered:

"Step after step, we try controlling our fate
When we finally start living, it's become too late"

I think it'd be awesome to use this couplet from Dream Theater's Octavarium. It revolves around the idea that everything ends where it begins and the more you try to escape the cycle, the sooner you come a full circle. One would go mad and lose his mind until he could accept that everything is a perfect sphere.


I've got plenty of ideas and all you have to do to come up with an idea is to name the god who made the dimension:

God of Truth-->no one understands the concept of lies until the Main Character throws this world off balance
God of Music-->flow of music controls all until the Main Character trips up the way it works
God of Abiome-->the only life around is the Main Character observing the lack of it
God of Asyndeton-->forget logic anything odd and out of the ordinary can happen
God of Anadiplosis-->a world where everything doubles back a world where everything doubles back

Glenda Said:

I'm writing a novel - Any ideas on the setting of a spirit world?

We Answered:

I want to read the story!!(major fantasy reader here)

Hm how about a realm of reflections? Kind of like a realm of mirrors but you could go a lot farther with that.
You could do a realm of no gravity too.
Eternal Night realm for those who are yet to be born?
Realm of lies and truths. one side lies other truth but no one can tell the difference?

2am here so don't blame me if they are bad haha