For those of you who came here to read chapter 6 I promise to post it by Sunday...if not sooner. I wanted to get some stuff out of my mind an onto paper or the Internet, not really personal stuff but maybe more observation. Yesterday I purchased Reflected in You by Sylvia Day around noon and finished it up about an hour ago (8pm) I read Bared to You and really enjoyed it. But all of this, reading and writing really stared in April of this year.
Out of pure curiosity I bought the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy and held onto it for a while, it wasn't until April that I stared reading it. To say it all went downhill from there is an understatement. As many friends or family members can tell you I am not very 'Emotional' unless you're looking for anger then I'm your gal. But I've had my nose in some sort of book so to speak since that time. I breezed through Fifty Shades in about a weeks time, then I felt lost so to speak, it seemed like everything in my life was crap compared to Ana and Christian. But then whose isn't, he is a fictional character, he isn't a billionaire obsessed with some fresh college grad but that didn't matter....for a while I compared everything in my life to the story...not healthy.
Then I decided one day out of the blue to write my own story, it's no secret fifty isn't a literary masterpiece, I think EL James used the word 'clamber' a hundred times but that didn't matter to me it was reading her story then reading an amazing fan fiction take on Christians POV that really got me going. My thought was that what James did was make a story she enjoyed and wrote it in a way she was comfortable writing. So my story was born out of the stream of consciousness type of writing I like, sometimes my character is narrating sometimes not.
Recently I was asked why I was writing a story, for what purpose. I actually have been thinking about that question for a while, and to be perfectly honest I have no idea. After fifty shades I read Bared to You, out of order I also read Effortless and Careless by SC Stephens, the whole Hunger Games trilogy, a whole series, well most of it, called Bound Hearts by Lora Leigh, a story that turned out to be about an alien but not the typical green man from mars or anything, and a few other short stories. A while back I went though most of Nicholas Sparks novels and while I get sucked in every time and cry like a baby as well I realized what these people have done is create another world, a temporary vacation for my mind and I want to do that for someone too.
A close friend said she hopes to see some 'smut' which makes me laugh, I thought about that but it just seems so weird to type words like, well it's even to weird to sample them here...sometimes I think I have the maturity of a fifth grader who just heard the word boobies out loud. But for my story I want it to feel real, in the aforementioned books they are all pretty unrealistic characters. Naive, overbearing, aggressive, etc, not that I don't have feelings for every character in these books. I feel their sadness, their joy, their anxiety everything. I can see the places in my mind the authors describe, I can smell the scents they portray, I get into the stories I read, sometimes to a fault. In Nicholas Sparks books there is always a tragedy and a small beach town in one of the Carolina's and a moving love story. In fifty, to me it's about an unimaginable love, a painful love at best and Bared to You is fan fiction from fifty. Hunger games is the whole dystopian theme obviously and while that series seemed to be the most plausible it's still fiction.
My short story is fiction, it's romance obviously and it's about love...but the characters feel normal to me, like someone you might know, or someone you could imagine being friends with. So my answer becomes I write this for people who want a story that isn't focused on some pert blonde with too big boobs and a small waist, for a person who had something bad happen but they came through the other side, not unscathed but stronger. It's hard to imagine what people think of my writing, I've received only positive feedback thus far and am anxious for when the story evolves and it either becomes great or a huge mess but I know that I'm doing this for me, I'm sharing this because why not, if you like it you'll keep reading, if you don't you'll stop either way I'd love to hear from you...all of you in the nine countries my blog is being read from. Thank you for taking this journey with me and I'll do my best to keep it coming on a more regular schedule!
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