How could I write a book without others knowing about my mission?
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I currently live wi?th both parents, a brother and daughter, I want to write my book, however, I don’t want any of them to come across my book when I am in the process of writing it. I realize the book my take months or maybe a years to write. It will be about my triumphs and tribulations over my past years and wouldn’t want the family to take an early peek. Any suggestions
Just keep it on your computer. You can encrypt it so that you need a password to access it. But you’d probably want to make another copy that wasn’t encrypted and put it on a jump drive somewhere. You wouldn’t want to forget the password and lose all your hard work. Make tons of copies.
And you’re right about it taking a while. I’ve just recently completed the first draft of my first novel. It took three years. And it is about ups and downs. So I definitely suggest telling your friends and family what you’re doing…at least the ones that will be supportive. I find that I stay much more motivated if I have someone always asking me how it’s going. How much have you written? What you haven’t written anything in three days? Get on it!
I know I’m getting a little off of the topic of your question, but I always enjoy giving my advice to new authors beginning their first journey. I find that it helps immensely to surround yourself with others who have the same goal as you. There are more serious writers than you’d think, and it seems that once you begin writing a book, they start falling out of the woodwork. Surround yourself with people who are going to advise and encourage you.
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Here’s some links that might help you out:
http://www.bernardcornwell.net/chapters/writingadvice.htm
(yes, i know the text can give you a headache, but you can always copy and paste and change it to whatever you like.)
http://www.angelfire.com/al/thewritesite/block.html
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/
(for finding good character names)
The next two are for once you finish, but they’re great sources, and I find it helpful to look at things like this sometimes just to get that in your head that you ARE going to finish.
http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/what-is-a-word/
http://louisaburton.com/fictioncraft/manuscriptformat.html
This last one will take you from start to finish. Mark this in your favorites. 
http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/gettingyourbookpublished/
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Best of luck and keep writing!
~AnA~
Just keep in on your computer
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Write it in a notebook and put it under your bed or store it on a flash drive.
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Write it in your email. Like in ‘saved drafts’. That way nobody can read it unless they have your email password.
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That’s what I do sometimes.
Just keep it on your computer. You can encrypt it so that you need a password to access it. But you’d probably want to make another copy that wasn’t encrypted and put it on a jump drive somewhere. You wouldn’t want to forget the password and lose all your hard work. Make tons of copies.
And you’re right about it taking a while. I’ve just recently completed the first draft of my first novel. It took three years. And it is about ups and downs. So I definitely suggest telling your friends and family what you’re doing…at least the ones that will be supportive. I find that I stay much more motivated if I have someone always asking me how it’s going. How much have you written? What you haven’t written anything in three days? Get on it!
I know I’m getting a little off of the topic of your question, but I always enjoy giving my advice to new authors beginning their first journey. I find that it helps immensely to surround yourself with others who have the same goal as you. There are more serious writers than you’d think, and it seems that once you begin writing a book, they start falling out of the woodwork. Surround yourself with people who are going to advise and encourage you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here’s some links that might help you out:
http://www.bernardcornwell.net/chapters/writingadvice.htm
(yes, i know the text can give you a headache, but you can always copy and paste and change it to whatever you like.)
http://www.angelfire.com/al/thewritesite/block.html
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/
(for finding good character names)
The next two are for once you finish, but they’re great sources, and I find it helpful to look at things like this sometimes just to get that in your head that you ARE going to finish.
http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/what-is-a-word/
http://louisaburton.com/fictioncraft/manuscriptformat.html
This last one will take you from start to finish. Mark this in your favorites.
http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/gettingyourbookpublished/
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Best of luck and keep writing!
~AnA~
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