truth really is stranger than fiction.

[enamoured]

Um, what just happened here? I signed up for NaNoWriMo. What possessed me to do that? And why do I get the feeling that I may get frustrated halfway through and end up writing a whole lot of fan fiction?

I've tried to write novels before. I've tried to write a novel since I was seven. One of the first ones was a really bad Baby-Sitters Club Super Special/Salute Your Shorts crossover rip-off. I was writing it in this journal my mom bought for me at the dollar store. It had strawberries on the cover of it. Cute book. I think I threw it out before we moved, though, so bad was the story. I wish I hadn't, even though the story was awful. It was a cute book, for cryin' out loud! Then came the journal one that was supposed to be a hyperfictionalized version of my fourth grade year. Then there was the time-travel story I started somewhere in the middle of sixth grade, and another journal story (this one was original and mostly not based on my life, gasp!) in seventh. In eighth grade I turned my sights towards screenwriting, and I even finished a screenplay; this pitiful teen comedy called "Crash and Burn" (it was fifty-six handwritten pages long; started in April 1999 and finished in September of the same year). I still have it in a little white binder, and I actually reread it about two months ago. Cheesy and bad, yes, but funny.

I gave up the whole "novel" thing for awhile, even though I had ideas and even a few starts. That's about the time I was super-into writing fan fic. I think it was then that I realized I'm not really good at longish stories. I only finished one of those. But, alas, junior year the urge came back and I started writing Fading Brilliance. It, like lots of my stories, was kind of inspired by certain things in my own life, but more different than me. I put so much work into that story and even entered it in a novel contest. I didn't finish it, though. Looking back, the idea was weak, but I put so much work into that story--the three chapters that I did finish was some of the most passion-filled writing I've ever done. Last winter I did a rewrite of chapter one and I deleted it. I'm still mad at myself for it. The rewrite was awesome.

So, that brings me to now. I have an idea of what I want to write about, but it's all a matter of time. I hope I can do it. Yeah.

I can't believe I've had this icon for OVER A YEAR. Um, wow.

Also: I may hate thunderstorms, but I love the sound of rain and walking in the rain.

Comments

[pianodude34.livejournal.com]

I love rain :) and the smell/sound of it. BTW I love your layout! :).

[unexplored.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to join nanowrimo. I write a lot of short stories and essays but I have no interest in novel writing. I admire those who decide to undertake it though. And there's nothing wrong with fan fic. Even the horrible, horrible ones. Because those are the ones that make you laugh and at least you're better writer than that. :)

[confused11390.livejournal.com]

I can't write stories either, In english last year (8th grade) we had to write Sci-Fi ones, I recently re-read it, the plot was good, but there was no backround, it was kinda sucky. But, If you check out my lj I've posted a song on there, that I wrote, and my friends claim to say that it's good, So maybe it's true, that everyone's good at something....

[brittuhknee.livejournal.com]

I love rain, too but also hate thunderstorms! Eek!