I have, even though I am an atheist, I read it to see what all the fuss was about. I did manage to slog through the entire series. What shocked me was the incredibly juvenile way those men wrote. It read as though it was put together by a fifth grader. In my opinion had it been written better and was more complex it could have been an interesting fiction series, as it was it was pretty pathetic, whats your opinion?
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Writing a novel begins with a simple idea. That story idea is what will lead you to your story plot, which is the core of what you need for writing a novel.

Plot is simply the plan of your story. It’s the movement of the ***?ople in your story through situations and through ***?ttings to get to certain goals. Some novel ideas are about a situation. Some ideas about a character. No matter where your idea starts, you must turn the idea into a plot if you ****?t enough story for writing a novel.

How do you do this? By ***?king questions. The two questions you ****?t to ***?k to transform an idea into a plot are: What if. What if is the ***?ed question to every novel plot. To get a ***?ll, complex plot, you must ***?k this question over and over and over and over.

For example, take the idea of an alternate universe where ***?t is considered beautiful. To transform this idea into a plot you might ***?k, what if a very obese woman from our universe ended up in this alternate universe? What would that be like for her? What if she suddenly was considered drop-dead gorgeous in this alternate universe? What would that be like for her? What if she started losing weight? What if by losing weight, she ends up ***? unhappy in this universe ***? she was in the one she left behind? Do you ***?e how this works? You play with what if.

Once you’ve ***?ked the what if questions ***?veral ***?mes, you are ready to ***?k the next question. Why? The why question expands on your what if questions. You use why to flesh out the scenarios you came up with ***? a result of ***?king what if.

For example, one of the what if questions for the alternate universe idea could be, ‘what if the main character started losing weight?’ To expand on this what if, you would ***?k, ‘Why’. Why would she lose weight? The why would take you back to what if. What if she lost weight because she was so happy that she no longer ate to cover her pain?

That what if would lead you to another why: Why, if she ate to cover pain, wouldn’t she just eat again once she started losing weight in the new reality? Wouldn’t that make her unhappy enough to binge again? Why wouldn’t she just go back to eating a lot?

That why, again, will take you to a what if: What if she no longer ****?ts to eat to cover pain and something in her experience of this new universe has changed her. She just doesn’t know what it is. What if? Why? Do you ***?e the process? You ***?k what if. That gives you information. Then you ***?k why. That gives you more information, which leads you back to what if.

It’s impossible to structure novel plotting much more than this. It’s a general brainstorming process that requires your mind to be free and ***?ll of possibility. This brainstorming is what will give you the foundation of what you need for writing a novel.


- Karin Manning

Belief in God.

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

I lost my husband and my father in law during partition of India of 1947 and without any belonging and without any money in my pocket I along-with my four sons and one daughter migrated to this part which was called Bharat. We were accommodated in a refugee camp at Patiala a city in Punjab(India). Here we were provided with two time meals and we all were accommodated in tents. At least four families were stuffed in one tent and there had been no privacy and that had been the reason I was not having sound sleep. There was no money in my pocket and that had been the reason I could not give some money to my children for purchasing some eatables which were available at the gates of the destitute home.

The Muslims living in the Patiala town were ousted and some of them were killed. I had been noticing that truck loads of dead bodies were being transported to a place near the destitute home and those were burnt and the Muslims could not get a decent burial as per their own traditions.

I noticed that some of the people were going in the town and were bringing some house hold effects which the Muslims had left behind while leaving the town. Some of my relatives were also busy in collecting those things, but since my sons were all minors, I could not dare to send them to the town. I had already lost two people and the pains were still with me, though my children were not understanding all these bad days.

A msn recognized me and came to my tent. He told me that my husband had deposited a sum of rupees five hundred in the Punjab National Bank at Ravalpindi(Now in Pakistan) and he helped me and thus we got a sum of rupees five hundred from the bank. We got a relief because this was the first time after migration that I could own a sum of rupees five hundred. I purchased some clothes for my children and some foot-wearers of cheaper quality.

All our relatives had shifted to houses vacated by the Muslim community and none had dared to take us with them because they themselves were not in a position to bear the expenses of additional six people. So when this refugee camp was closed down, we were shifted to the Destitute Home Sangrur. Till that date my eldest son had joined the Indian Army as a boy soldier and the younger one had been engaged in a hotel to clean utensils. We had been at this Destitute Home when some people informed me that we should file our claims for properties left by us in Pakistan. I approached my brothers in law who were sons of brothers of grand father of my children and somehow I could get information that they had claimed the money for all the properties left in Pakistan and they were not in a mood to share the same with me and with my children. Even the Panchayat called could not solve the problem and while leaving the gathering when my son was still speaking against them, I said,: “ Let us go my son. God shall do the justice. God shall give us more. We shall live with our fate which has been written by God Himself.”

Years after years passed on and one day my son was speaking to one of the relative, “ Our mother was very right. All the uncles who confiscated the whole money could not give proper education, proper training and proper adjustment to their children and on the other hand my mother could give proper education, proper training and proper adjustment to all her children and all are well settled and now after so many years the same uncles are identifying us as their relatives which they had forgotten for years to -gether.” The relative who was listening to my son passed remarks in favour of one of my brother in law and said, he was a very good person. My son listened to him and then said, “ Had he been a good person, he should have taken our side and should have asked his other brothers to share the claim money with us. But he too kept silence and therefore, by this act of silence, he too had lost greatness which could be available in him.” I just listened what my son had said and kept silent because I was still of the view that God administer justice and God takes care of each one who has been sent by Him on this earth.”

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- Dalip Singh Wasan

I have written a series of three books that are part of a 12-part series of Christian fiction for late teens and young adults. Readers who have read the Chronicles of Narnia and the Left Behind series will enjoy. The reading is a little more difficult than the Narnia Chronicles and a little lighter and less obviously Christian than the Left Behind books. I would like to know how to get these into Christian bookstores.

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Bob Woods
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- Robert W

help! ive got writers block! :’(… i cant think of anything to write but i
really want to!!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRR.. lol.. sorry.. my bad… any ideas? it can be about anything…
but i need help
brainstorming! i want to write like a mystery though… like the book ‘The
Westing Game” or
“The One Left Behind’ or even like the HP and Unfortunate events books! thanks
all!
- heyyi?u*wayatt*!!!!