Has anyone ever written a book?

[Albert's Chip Shop]

I did in Sixth Form, 'The Pipeline' about downed airmen escaping from occupied France in WW2.

 

[Otto Flayshow]

I don't mean to devalue your achievement, but apparently acworth has had a book published.

 

[Resurgam]

One of the Watford posters has had a couple of books published

 

[Jip Jaap Stam]

Ponders is a successful author I believe.

 

[Garlic Klopp]

I have a friend who is a publisher and whilst having a pint with him one day asked him if he believed the old adage that "everybody has a book in them".

His reply " Yes they do, but no f****r will want to read it!

So basically anyone can write a book, but very few can write a good book.

 

[Brian Storm]

Dose keeping a diary throughout my life count? They're full of memoirs, poems, verses and drawings. There's a few books within those pages.

 

[Moses]

I wrote the first few books in the bible. I made a lot of it up though

 

[Jip Jaap Stam]

Does anyone remember the Fighting Fantasy series (by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone) from about 20 - 30 years ago? You had to make choices as you read through eg:

There is a troll ahead. Do you (a) run (b) fight? For (a), turn to page 10, for (b), turn to page 15.

An role-playing game on paper. I wrote ome of those when I was about 10. Fully illustrated and everything. It was rubbish

 

[DevAdvocate]

I've written a Novella, 17,000 words. Never got published as nowadays you need to hire an agent and I could not be arsed.

One day I may turn it into a fully fledged Novel, one day.

I have also started work on a screenplay but that's just a work in progress.

 

[DevAdvocate]

Does anyone remember the Fighting Fantasy series (by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone) from about 20 - 30 years ago? You had to make choices as you read through eg:

There is a troll ahead. Do you (a) run (b) fight? For (a), turn to page 10, for (b), turn to page 15.

An role-playing game on paper. I wrote ome of those when I was about 10. Fully illustrated and everything. It was rubbish

I do, I bought some and they were ****.

A good few years ago I bought some Call of Cthulu role playing books which were in a similar vein but much more interesting and relied on proper character generation rather than random stats and simple 6 sided dice.

 

[Jip Jaap Stam]

I've written a Novella, 17,000 words. Never got published as nowadays you need to hire an agent and I could not be arsed.

One day I may turn it into a fully fledged Novel, one day.

I have also started work on a screenplay but that's just a work in progress.

Go for it Dev. You could be not606's third published author

I do, I bought some and they were ****.

A good few years ago I bought some Call of Cthulu role playing books which were in a similar vein but much more interesting and relied on proper character generation rather than random stats and simple 6 sided dice.

They were pretty poor

But for a 10 year old they were amazing.

 

[DevAdvocate]

They were pretty poor

But for a 10 year old they were amazing.

I was somewhat older