I've been thinking that I should write a novel. I was really good at writing stories in high school. The trouble was, I took an already existing story and embellished it beyond recognition, but coming up with an idea of my own was somewhat of a challenge. I find myself in the same predicament. I sit and think about subjects for a novel....A beautiful princess is locked in a tower and a prince has to save her. A fairy tale? Really? Real original, Melissa. A boy and a girl from feuding families fall in love, and they have to run away to get married and fake their deaths, but in a tragic twist of fate they actually kill themselves. Shakespeare. A troubled pilot goes to Fightertown USA and his reel dies in a horrible training accident. Isn't that a movie? An adolescent boy discovers he has powers and is invited to attend a school for wizardry. Nope. A high school girl falls in love with a vampire? Taken. A werewolf? Shoot.
Some common advice for writers is to write what you know. So what do I know? I know I live in a small town. I know my family is more important than anything else in the world. I know that even though I love my husband more than anything, sometimes I still need a best girlfriend (my mom is a good one). I know I post on Facebook way too much, and that oftentimes the posts are way too personal to be sharing with the world. I know that if you put a rice heating pad in the microwave too long it stinks up the whole apartment/office for the rest of the day. Hmm....maybe I should rephrase the question: What do I know that is interesting enough to write a book about?
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It doesn't have to be something you already know. It can be something you are commited to learn about. I just read a book by first time novelist Jamie Ford called Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet... you'd love it. But, even though he has a connection with the story, he had to do a lot of research to make it the great read it was. Go for it!
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ReplyDeleteYou are very good and creative with your writing. You are interested in humanities and passionate about music, dance and art. I bet you could write a story with those subjects in them. There have been a lot of funzy mysteries popping up with twists in them like cooking, tea rooms, scrapbooking. Yes, scrapbooking mysteries. I read a couple of the tea room mysteries and they were fun. Course you probably don't want to write a mystery. You will find something that is "you". It will be fun to see what you come up with. Keep posting. I like your new blog - it's green. Tomorrow is the day for green. Love you -
ReplyDeleteI like this post! Keep writing! :-)
ReplyDeleteOk, I'm totally laughing about the line in here about you posting on FB. I think I'm laughing at you but maybe I'm laughing at me. I was thinking your posts were oftentimes way too personal to be sharing with the world, but I didn't know that YOU knew that. LOL. I think I was even trying to figure out a nice way to break that news to you. Ha! Classic.
ReplyDeleteLove your new blog! Keep on writing. You're the best!
Write a book on the story of the history of Rigby and the people that live there, you would be surprised how interesting it would be. You could make it fictional and you could make it one of those big sagas about a town going through the generations of several families. The Archibald family could be one of them.
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