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October 29th, 2009, 08:14 PM
Dear Mr. King,
My Epic Horror Novel is finally complete. Well, technically, I have been done with it for a little over three months now, ranging back to August 25th, before school had started again, and I just have to say: I could not have done it without your help as well as: "Book in a month". Thank you so much for being such a great inspiration to me!!! My book is a little over 240,000 words and yes, I know, that is quite big for my first novel...However, I have been trying to write a novel ever since my freshmen year--I'm a senior now, getting ready to graduate--and each book I had tried to write, had been nothing but failed attempts, but now, no more. I have had many people review some of what I have and everyone had said, so far, it's been real good, and not just good, but really freakin' awesome: "Wow, your book rocks dude, it's really good." are some of my comments. Then we have: "Oh my God, that's amazing, you have to let me read more. I have to know what happens. That was sooooo good." are some of my others. In fact, I can not tell you how many new words I had discovered from people reviewing my manuscript. They made up words to describe how good it was: Fantabulous, Amazingtastic, Godly, Superbatious? What the heck is that? AT least, I think that was the word, but I can't really think of any others off the top of my head. It's been awhile since I let someone criticize it, (because I'm trying to perfect it now and I'm also looking for some holes and flaws. I can't let my future fans wait too long)
I hope, someday, I get published and that is my main goal.
And I also have a five book "Series" going on now. It started out with a simple idea--real life experience--but now, it's turned into something much bigger than that!!
There is only one thing that is bothering me now. The revision process is taking so dang long, it's unbelievable. I had no idea that the revision process would take so long. And since I had first started, my writing has slightly gotten better with structure and all that. When I first started it was utterly terrible, not the ideas, but the structure and grammar, but I took some courses and I have read some books and I have gotten much better. That basically sums it up.
Anyway, I really hope, once it's published--(because I try not to be negative and I hope for the best)--that you read it. Because I think that you'd actually rather enjoy it. It's similar to your style, yes, but I also have, through examination of your style and Dean Koontz and a couple other horror writers, created my own style that I think is very suitable for me.
Thank you, once again, for being such a great inspiration, and one day, if i'm a successful writer, I would love to meet you and thank you personally!
P.S. I'm just throwing this out there because I totally forgot to put that in there somewhere, but our lives aren't really too different, childhood anyway, because you started writing when you were real little, so did I. I had always had a big imagination and I wrote my first story, which was twenty five pages, back in third grade (a couple others before that but never finished). And also, someone had wanted to buy it off my for ten dollars. I couldn't, though, not yet, I wasn't finished, but he seemed to like it. Anyway, I really hope, one day, i'm as recognized as you. Though I doubt it, because you are--lets face it--a legend that writers can only dream of becoming...
But as the great Walt Disney had once said: "All our Dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
My Epic Horror Novel is finally complete. Well, technically, I have been done with it for a little over three months now, ranging back to August 25th, before school had started again, and I just have to say: I could not have done it without your help as well as: "Book in a month". Thank you so much for being such a great inspiration to me!!! My book is a little over 240,000 words and yes, I know, that is quite big for my first novel...However, I have been trying to write a novel ever since my freshmen year--I'm a senior now, getting ready to graduate--and each book I had tried to write, had been nothing but failed attempts, but now, no more. I have had many people review some of what I have and everyone had said, so far, it's been real good, and not just good, but really freakin' awesome: "Wow, your book rocks dude, it's really good." are some of my comments. Then we have: "Oh my God, that's amazing, you have to let me read more. I have to know what happens. That was sooooo good." are some of my others. In fact, I can not tell you how many new words I had discovered from people reviewing my manuscript. They made up words to describe how good it was: Fantabulous, Amazingtastic, Godly, Superbatious? What the heck is that? AT least, I think that was the word, but I can't really think of any others off the top of my head. It's been awhile since I let someone criticize it, (because I'm trying to perfect it now and I'm also looking for some holes and flaws. I can't let my future fans wait too long)
I hope, someday, I get published and that is my main goal.
And I also have a five book "Series" going on now. It started out with a simple idea--real life experience--but now, it's turned into something much bigger than that!!
There is only one thing that is bothering me now. The revision process is taking so dang long, it's unbelievable. I had no idea that the revision process would take so long. And since I had first started, my writing has slightly gotten better with structure and all that. When I first started it was utterly terrible, not the ideas, but the structure and grammar, but I took some courses and I have read some books and I have gotten much better. That basically sums it up.
Anyway, I really hope, once it's published--(because I try not to be negative and I hope for the best)--that you read it. Because I think that you'd actually rather enjoy it. It's similar to your style, yes, but I also have, through examination of your style and Dean Koontz and a couple other horror writers, created my own style that I think is very suitable for me.
Thank you, once again, for being such a great inspiration, and one day, if i'm a successful writer, I would love to meet you and thank you personally!
P.S. I'm just throwing this out there because I totally forgot to put that in there somewhere, but our lives aren't really too different, childhood anyway, because you started writing when you were real little, so did I. I had always had a big imagination and I wrote my first story, which was twenty five pages, back in third grade (a couple others before that but never finished). And also, someone had wanted to buy it off my for ten dollars. I couldn't, though, not yet, I wasn't finished, but he seemed to like it. Anyway, I really hope, one day, i'm as recognized as you. Though I doubt it, because you are--lets face it--a legend that writers can only dream of becoming...
But as the great Walt Disney had once said: "All our Dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."