Have you ever noticed...
...that the minute you get done with a movie, you want to write something just like it? I can never write directly after I've seen or read something unless I know that I'm out to make a fanfiction out of it. Some of my best ideas come from watching movies and I can't use them because they end up sounding exactly like what I just watched.
Sometimes a trailer is enough to set me off. I'll see something quirky and cute or sweet and romantic or daring and enthralling and I'll say, "That. That is what I want my ever unfinished novel to be." Except I can never decide what I want my ever unfinished novel to be about! I want to write something that changes the world. I want to reach people, I want to do something other than sit around and write fanfiction and get fatter every day.
I know what you're saying. I've got to make the change myself. I've got to open the Word document and start typing. Typing anything. A plot, a beginning, a middle, the final words of the final chapter of the final book in the final series of my career. Except what if they're the first and final words? I'm not making any sense. I've just got to do it, right?
Well, here's the thing: I'm scared. I'm scared out of my mind. I'm scared that all of this time I've been fooling myself into thinking I'm a good writer when all I can really do is put a spin on another person's idea and call it under-appreciated art. I have all these words inside that are dying to get out, but what if they're not good enough? Even if I do get published (and I'm told that's another battle in and of itself), what if my book ends up in a bargain bin at some dollar store because it's unappealing and full of dull stories about dull people with dull humor that no one but myself and the publisher moronic enough to put my book out into the world will get?
I'm kind of lost here. I've got no ideas and no direction and the worst part is that it's five in the morning and I still haven't worked on Waking Dreams (the new project I'm undertaking with permission from invisionary and some almost subtle pushing from jdphoenix) like I promised myself I would.
What I need is a good plot. Does anyone know where I can find one of those?
Sometimes a trailer is enough to set me off. I'll see something quirky and cute or sweet and romantic or daring and enthralling and I'll say, "That. That is what I want my ever unfinished novel to be." Except I can never decide what I want my ever unfinished novel to be about! I want to write something that changes the world. I want to reach people, I want to do something other than sit around and write fanfiction and get fatter every day.
I know what you're saying. I've got to make the change myself. I've got to open the Word document and start typing. Typing anything. A plot, a beginning, a middle, the final words of the final chapter of the final book in the final series of my career. Except what if they're the first and final words? I'm not making any sense. I've just got to do it, right?
Well, here's the thing: I'm scared. I'm scared out of my mind. I'm scared that all of this time I've been fooling myself into thinking I'm a good writer when all I can really do is put a spin on another person's idea and call it under-appreciated art. I have all these words inside that are dying to get out, but what if they're not good enough? Even if I do get published (and I'm told that's another battle in and of itself), what if my book ends up in a bargain bin at some dollar store because it's unappealing and full of dull stories about dull people with dull humor that no one but myself and the publisher moronic enough to put my book out into the world will get?
I'm kind of lost here. I've got no ideas and no direction and the worst part is that it's five in the morning and I still haven't worked on Waking Dreams (the new project I'm undertaking with permission from invisionary and some almost subtle pushing from jdphoenix) like I promised myself I would.
What I need is a good plot. Does anyone know where I can find one of those?