Comments on: Want to Write http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/ Weblog of National Bestselling, Award-Winning Novelist Sylvia Day Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:27:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sylvia http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4237 Sylvia Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:11:58 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4237 LOL! Sybil. I turned in TSIM last month. I can't wait to see the cover. I've been told my future covers will follow along the same vein as ASK FOR IT's, so I'm excited. :bounce: No, A Familiar Kind of Magic is only halfway done. I meant to finish it and then the Brava story just excited me so much I started writing that instead. :grin: I tell myself that I'll stick to writing one story at a time, but I just can't do it. I'm glad you find the sidebar countdown handy. :) LOL! Sybil. I turned in TSIM last month. I can’t wait to see the cover. I’ve been told my future covers will follow along the same vein as ASK FOR IT’s, so I’m excited. :bounce:

No, A Familiar Kind of Magic is only halfway done. I meant to finish it and then the Brava story just excited me so much I started writing that instead. :grin: I tell myself that I’ll stick to writing one story at a time, but I just can’t do it.

I’m glad you find the sidebar countdown handy. :)

]]> By: sybil http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4236 sybil Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:15:58 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4236 Damn, The Stranger I Married comes out 1/2007 and you already have it turned in? You go with your badself. Is A Familiar Kind of Magic turned in as well? Love the side bar with the count down, links and titles. Very nifty. Damn, The Stranger I Married comes out 1/2007 and you already have it turned in? You go with your badself. Is A Familiar Kind of Magic turned in as well?

Love the side bar with the count down, links and titles. Very nifty.

]]> By: sybil http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4235 sybil Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:05:35 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4235 Fourth? What is the third? Off to comb the website. LOL screw the writing stuff I want the book info :angel: Fourth? What is the third? Off to comb the website.

LOL screw the writing stuff I want the book info :angel:

]]> By: Jen http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4234 Jen Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:00:39 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4234 Sylvia, I just wanted to thank you for the time you took to chat on the Divas. I really got a lot out of it and I really look forward to the "Show, not Tell" workshop. Thanks again. Jen Sylvia, I just wanted to thank you for the time you took to chat on the Divas. I really got a lot out of it and I really look forward to the “Show, not Tell” workshop.
Thanks again.
Jen

]]> By: Sylvia http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4233 Sylvia Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:44:25 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4233 Yay!! :dance: I'm not the only one. That's such a relief. Since there's so many of us that write this way, I betcha there's a name for this style of writing. Anyone know if I'm right? Thanks, Mailyn!! :) It's kind of weird to think about writing this book, knowing that I have two more coming out before any readers will see this one. Yay!! :dance: I’m not the only one. That’s such a relief. Since there’s so many of us that write this way, I betcha there’s a name for this style of writing. Anyone know if I’m right?

Thanks, Mailyn!! :) It’s kind of weird to think about writing this book, knowing that I have two more coming out before any readers will see this one.

]]> By: Mailyn http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4232 Mailyn Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:34:52 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4232 well that's interesting! since I don't write I always thought writers literally started with page one and then went from there. I didn't know you worked the novel around a few scenes. I think it's cool. good luck in writing the next one, I'm sure it will be great indeed :hug: well that’s interesting! since I don’t write I always thought writers literally started with page one and then went from there. I didn’t know you worked the novel around a few scenes. I think it’s cool.

good luck in writing the next one, I’m sure it will be great indeed :hug:

]]> By: Nicole Reising http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4231 Nicole Reising Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:48:18 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2006/02/24/835/#comment-4231 This was so neat to read. The last couple of days I've come across a couple of other people that do 'a part' of how I write -- write in the same way. Which was really, really awesome to hear, being I'm an unpublished author and wonder at times if 'my way' of doing this is 'wrong'. But in reference to your post today - that is exactly how I do it do. I have a couple of scenes that I type out with passion and then write the story around them, up to them and beyond them. And of course as that happens more 'scenes' appear and so forth. And I was extremely relieved to hear that you hit that same stumbling block - the something isn't quite right block. In my book that I'm currently trying to sell, I will definitely admit to seeing the flaws by writing this way after I wrote my synopsis. The synopsis is obviously not something that I enjoyed writing but it turns out to be an awesome tool for finding one's strengths and weaknesses in their book. At least it was for me. So, thanks! :grin: I don't feel so 'weird' about my 'style' of writing now! Cole This was so neat to read. The last couple of days I’ve come across a couple of other people that do ‘a part’ of how I write — write in the same way. Which was really, really awesome to hear, being I’m an unpublished author and wonder at times if ‘my way’ of doing this is ‘wrong’.

But in reference to your post today - that is exactly how I do it do. I have a couple of scenes that I type out with passion and then write the story around them, up to them and beyond them. And of course as that happens more ’scenes’ appear and so forth. And I was extremely relieved to hear that you hit that same stumbling block - the something isn’t quite right block.

In my book that I’m currently trying to sell, I will definitely admit to seeing the flaws by writing this way after I wrote my synopsis. The synopsis is obviously not something that I enjoyed writing but it turns out to be an awesome tool for finding one’s strengths and weaknesses in their book. At least it was for me.

So, thanks! :grin: I don’t feel so ‘weird’ about my ’style’ of writing now!

Cole

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