I tend to be a planner. I start with an outline of where it starts and ends. While I tend to follow the outline, I can go off on tangents here and there. But my outline isn’t just an outline. While I plan my outline to be 8-10 pages, I get idea along the way that I write in, and so my outline can turn out to be 60-80 pages.
About stanleythorntonbooks
The Beatles, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the first man to step foot on the moon. I watched solemnly as John F. Kennedy's funeral was aired live on television, November 25, 1963. I watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, Feb. 9, 1964. I sat on the floor in front of the TV and watched Neil Armstrong take that first step on the moon, July 20, 1969. I didn't just read about them, I lived them.
In the summer of 1966, my neighbor, Ricky Brady, who lived behind me and I were watching Batman the TV series one day. Before the show ended I had come up with such a wonderful idea. His parents had a large closed in patio in the backyard. We moved his record player to the patio and played records. We charged admission and sold kool-aid for a nickle a glass. So, I can honestly say we invented the disco.
I guess my writing career began around about 2nd grade. The teacher gave each of us a picture and we had to write a story about the picture. My picture was of a dog that looked like the Our Gang dog, white with a patch of black over one eye. I wrote a whole page about how the dog got his black eye. At the age of 12, I began writing poetry; however, most of those poems did not survive the years. I also wrote my first play about this time, but I must admit that as I got older and realized how bad it really was, I am glad it is lost forever. Also, about this time, I owned an old LP by The Ventures. Since they were an instrumental band, there were no words to their songs. I liked one song they played, When She Walked in the Room, so I wrote my own lyrics, not realizing there were already lyrics. Since then, I have found that I enjoyed writing lyrics as much as poetry; however, since I don't play a musical instrument, I've never gotten produced complete songs.
I released my first book, Christianity: Myths and Legends (non-fiction) in November
2010. I released my first fantasy novel, He Walks with Dragons (first in a series) in April 2013. The second book in the He Walks with Dragons series should be released in the first few months of 2014.
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I have a number of other projects in different phases of completion, I should be adding other books to this list in the new future.
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My plans get really long too. 🙂
Book 4 in my dragon series is a bit different…I know where it’s going so I’m just writing as I go…but I also get stuck trying to describe the scenes just right…
That is a lot of pages! I have planned and come out with maybe a page per chapter or every couple chapters- depending on how I plan so I can see how it can get lengthy. 🙂
I try to keep it short, but I get carried away…:D
I do something similar, and I always wonder when my outline is going to accidentally become my book.
My latest experiment is an entry in a short story contest….but it’s limited to 1500 words, so I guess it’s really a short short story contest…It closed on Nov 1, so I guess I’ll hear something shortly…