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[Guest leebarr]

Not sure if this sould be posted here or not but here it goes. I always had a great imagantion and had this story floating around in my head. Since hearing of RJ death I have desided to put it on paper. RJ was the one who really got me into reading. Before I started reading TWOT I read very little. Has RJ brought out any one else's dream of writing.

[TurboZ]

I was writing long before RJ's books. However they have shown me how to structure a story and make it flow.

[Dragon21]

I began writing my series before I read the WOT. I was certainly inspired by WOT to continue. I would say RJ helped some with understanding how to tell an epic tale. Now I finally have my first book being edited.

 

 

 

[Jelly]

I've been writing before I read them, but since I did read the Wheel Of Time, I can write much better than before.

[Tamia Sedai]

I did start writing after reading these books, but now I'm rereading the WoT series and I feel bad about my story because it is nowhere as complicated as the WoT. :'(

 

well, I try to write... right now I'm working on a story about a girl named Tamia Avirain and a guy named Deniro (Idon't know his last name yet)

[vinay87]

Inspired? Well, depends.

I've been writing for the last seven years now. Well, not really. But you could say my story has been growing for that long. I came across WoT in 2004 so, I had my story in my mind for nearly four years before I came across WoT. Well, I would be lying if I said WoT hasn't affected my writing style or the story in a way.

 

Before I read WoT I was writing like this:

"The cloaked man was taller than most men."

 

After I read WoT, and as of now, I write like this.

"He was cloaked in grey, his stance as gaunt as his appearance. Taller than most, he held himself as only a wraith could. Dark and intimidating. As death itself."

 

Yes, RJ has influenced my writing and my book(s). Safe to say I am thankful for that. But I have been caeful enough to remove any similarities that might have inevitably crept in, expect for a few which become so obvious that they end up being tributes rather than copies.

 

But I suppose no writer goes uninspired by the books he/she reads. No matter how bad the book, it will have influenced something. Some influences end up being so vague that only the writer will be able to tell. And others so obvious that they become irritatingly so.

[Duneflayer]

LOL you guys are so lucky i've always wanted to be able to put my ideas down on paper but i never can get my ideas accross WOT has just made me want it more than ever but i'm not really any closer than i was three years ago when i first started WOT

[Darth_Andrea]

I had a novel finished polished to my satisfaction, then a buddy of mine gave me Eye Of The World and I realized just how weak my writing was how much detail I lacked how my ideas were poorly thought out and I did the logical thing. Tossed the entire thing in the trash and gave up on any dream of writing because I'm a lame hack who can barely put two words together. You can Thank RJ for saving you from my terriable work :)

 

 

 

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[vinay87]

I had a novel finished polished to my satisfaction, then a buddy of mine gave me Eye Of The World and I realized just how weak my writing was how much detail I lacked how my ideas were poorly thought out and I did the logical thing. Tossed the entire thing in the trash and gave up on any dream of writing because I'm a lame hack who can barely put two words together. You can Thank RJ for saving you from my terriable work :)

 

 

 

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So technically RJ made you <i>quit</i> writing? Why didn't you try going back and rewriting it?

[Darth_Andrea]

 

So technically RJ made you <i>quit</i> writing? Why didn't you try going back and rewriting it?

 

 

Well it's more like he made me rethink the way I write. I have started over and have reworked my plots and structure a great deal. I was never sure I was good enough to get published and I'm still not, but TEOTW showed me that what I had writen was kindergarden level compaired to what the fantasy community was accustomed to. Anyway I found not long after I had tossed my first manuscript that another book was published not long before with a story that mirrored what I had been writing in many ways using the sme theams anyway and flopped.

 

 

 

 

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