I want to write a book.

i want to write a book about humanity. any suggestions?

thanks! thats really helpful, manored. i still have to get the format set up. its still in the brain part of brainstorming. send me some of your book! id be interested in reading it!

Im writing a book myself, mostly because I sometimes feel the need to outlet my creative will somehow. Im not sure if I will ever finish it/get it published =)

After a lot of thinking, it occured to me that its best to have the entire idea of the book ready before you even write a line. Thats how im writing mine...

Like, first you write a very very short version of the book. Like, one page at most. Then you write a second version where you expand on everything said on the first, amounting to a few pages. When you expand again... until you finally get to the size you want.

Off course, the smaller versions dont have to be self-contained books, they can be just abstracts of what the book will talk about or summaries of its chapters. After all if you could pack all the contents of the book in one page, you wouldnt need a book.

In other words, you make the "project" of the book before writing it. At least for me, writing "on the fly" always lead to a disordely mess that I would end up erazing and starting over.

That's not how it worked for me. When I started writing I didn't even know what it was about, let alone how it would end. One thing I do know, writing a book is easier than getting one published

How you feel when you're writing something is different to the way you feel once you've written it. You might just want to put it up on a shelf and forget about it, but once I'd written it that was no longer an option.