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Im only half way through mine… I'm always halfway through… in a years time ill still be halfway through… the more i progress the more work needs to be done… I am unpublished but I will not try until I feel the book is ready. I feel it is another year away so I may have a different opinion then ...

Yellow - Yes I agree, I would never want to state my writing as my own if someone else had contributed so in that sense my original question is in referral to collaborations. Everyone should be credited for their artistic contribution.

Imagine if Tolkien had Peter Jackson adding his thoughts on story tension : )

So everyone wants to be heralded for their own writing... but is this at the detriment of the story itself? If one has a very very very long story a which will take them forever to write - is it not best to 'hire' people if one can (by charge or for free) so that one can spend time on the...

I am writing my novel using Dropbox to save it on so that it saves to all my other computers. How safe is dropbox? Should I use it to store my novel on? Can anyone steal it? Am I being paranoid?

I am the opposite. The writing part takes me ages... I seem to have a good writing day then I am lost for a day or two until I get the gist back. The editing is my favourite part... having a rough draft, going through each sentence perfecting it, choosing really good words... I love the wordplay...

This is a brilliant thread. The advice from T Allen Smith is the best I have read and as simple and straightforward as can be. I needed to read that. Thanks

Has anyone experienced writing a story and then finding it has been done elsewhere. I am writing a story and one of my main 'scenarios' towards the was almost identical to the premise of the ending of a recent blockbuster movie I watched last night... What is best in this situation as anyone...

Hi Does anyone have any advice on how to keep organised... I have loads of books full of notes, hundreds of files full of notes short and long, my Scrivener has just outgrown itself and that has become a myriad of random notes... I am still developing my story whilst trying to write it...