Changes
At what stage of 'the story' do you start writing?
I've taken to starting the day, sometimes the moment, the world changes for the MC, or the narrator. So far it seems to wrok well. Except for one story where I can't decide who is the MC, or what is the day the world changes. I have 5 first chapters for that novel.
If I was writing my story which day would be the day the world changes? Would I go back to my meeting my husband, to my marriage to him? To the death of one of his sisters, which in turn triggered our quest to have our own family and the long hassles with that. Or do I go to the birht of our children; thier very early birth, the death of our daughter, to my son's coming home?
Or to the illness of mother which triggered my writing fiction and opened a whole new world to me; both fictional and real. To my discovery of friends online, who have the same intense interest in writing as I found I had. Or is it the acceptance of one story (just a short) for publication and that world of writing for fun and enjoyment suddenly becoming real and something I could actually do and maybe even make money?
Maybe it was that success that made me do something even more daring and scary than submit a piece of prose? Maybe that tiny bit of success made me think that I could do something I hadn't thought of doing in over 25 years? Maybe it was my writer friends that gave me the confidence that I was capable?
I applied to a University to go back to get a post-grad degree in highschool teaching (maths and computing). I got the idea, found out what I needed to do, applied, all within a three week period.
I got accepted.
Next year I go back to school. Full time. The year after that I become a teacher.
And I'm petrified, excited, confident, uncertain, and everything in between.
But I'm doing this. I will succeed.
*grins manically*
I've taken to starting the day, sometimes the moment, the world changes for the MC, or the narrator. So far it seems to wrok well. Except for one story where I can't decide who is the MC, or what is the day the world changes. I have 5 first chapters for that novel.
If I was writing my story which day would be the day the world changes? Would I go back to my meeting my husband, to my marriage to him? To the death of one of his sisters, which in turn triggered our quest to have our own family and the long hassles with that. Or do I go to the birht of our children; thier very early birth, the death of our daughter, to my son's coming home?
Or to the illness of mother which triggered my writing fiction and opened a whole new world to me; both fictional and real. To my discovery of friends online, who have the same intense interest in writing as I found I had. Or is it the acceptance of one story (just a short) for publication and that world of writing for fun and enjoyment suddenly becoming real and something I could actually do and maybe even make money?
Maybe it was that success that made me do something even more daring and scary than submit a piece of prose? Maybe that tiny bit of success made me think that I could do something I hadn't thought of doing in over 25 years? Maybe it was my writer friends that gave me the confidence that I was capable?
I applied to a University to go back to get a post-grad degree in highschool teaching (maths and computing). I got the idea, found out what I needed to do, applied, all within a three week period.
I got accepted.
Next year I go back to school. Full time. The year after that I become a teacher.
And I'm petrified, excited, confident, uncertain, and everything in between.
But I'm doing this. I will succeed.
*grins manically*