Deep Into The Darkness Peering...

So you know in that last post where I said I wasn't going to work on my novel? Well....I lied XD

Jared told me he was going to play this civilization type game with friends on the xbox tonight, so I knew I'd be bored out of my mind. Not wanting to stay couped up in the house with nothing to do, I went to the local coffee shop and worked on my novel. Man, it is such hard work! I actually put my outline down on paper since it has all been in my head, and then started on character sketches. My main character is pretty much done, but I still have so far to go before I can continue on with the chapter writing.

I wonder if every novelist goes though this or if I'm being overly thorough? Either way, it makes me feel like I've got my head fully wrapped around the characters and where they're coming from. Plus it's helping me flesh out the basic foundations of the world they live in, since it's not the same as ours. I already know I want to add in a prologue with some of their history and religion as a background for where everything is going.

I'm hoping that in the long run (and if this thing ever gets published) my hard work will pay off with believable characters, character growth, plot twists, and an overall good story that doesn't have any major disappointments for the reader. I realize that this seems like common sense, but even popular book series these days really aren't of the best caliber of writing. Such as The Southern Vampire Mysteries. Great idea, terrible writing.

Anyways, it was fun to get one step closer to the finished product.

You guys... guess what I did today?

I STARTED MY ORIGINAL NOVEL!!!  zomg..I'm so excited. I only have about 600 words, but I was staring at my screen and crying. (such a girl). I just kept thinking 'that's your original idea right there. those are characters you thought up, it's the beginning of your plot line. no one else thought it first, no one else can take it from you. it's all yours.'  and crying again.

I have other things to work on, and I probably can't really put the effort into it until next May. But I realized that was a really stupid excuse to not work on it a little bit here or there. There are a lot of notes to replace things like [lord what's his face] and [really, what am I going to call this?], but it felt GOOD to get started.

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^ that's my face right now