Hello everyone out there in Cyber Space, I am not sure if you will be reading this in the near future or not but I wanted you to know I am working on the next chapter of the Short Story. Just last weekend I wrote 6 pages; granted the majority of those pages is dialogue between characters but still six is a big deal with all things considered.
If you are on my Facebook friends list you might also know that I am taking a writing class, this class is called 'Writing Essentials' and wouldn't you know it is all the stuff I was 'supposedly' taught in school. Well it has been an eye opener and I am so grateful I have the opportunity to advance my writing technique. The only drawback to this class is how much it has made me aware of my poor grammar and even worse spelling, but I am working on it!
I am trying a skill I read online about writing 'Hot Sheets', well I think that is what they are called but if not that's what I am going to call them. It is basically a tool you can use to clear your mind of all of the garbage that keeps you from being creative. I cannot speak for the masses but at any given moment I have about fifty things running through my mind. I tried this a few days ago at work, I didn't need to be creative but I was harboring quite a bit of resentment and I had a job to finish. So I took out a piece of paper and wrote all the things I was 'not thrilled' about and sure it even got a little mean. But, I was free. Free from my nasty attitude. Free from my sidetracked and chaotic thoughts and I was able to finish my task. I have since thrown that paper out...I think?
Okay, so that's a little about working and writing now onto the wishing. I recently finished the last book in a trilogy from S.C.Stephens, it was her Thoughtless series. The last book was titled Reckless and it was amazing, I couldn't put it down and when I had to all I could think about was how the story would progress and eventually end. I actually read her series out of order, by accident. The first book I read was Effortless and even that was a page turner. Then I read the 'first book' Thoughtless and it made everything else I had read make sense. But I couldn't help but wonder as I read all of these and other books "Why can't I do this?".
If you were to ask my mom twenty years ago (YIKES!!!) that when I was in my thirties I would want to be a writer I am sure she would laugh. She was always amazing at my abhorrent skills in English. She could never understand how I could even speak the language since I could not put simple sentences together. Lets not forget my horrific spelling either. (THANK GOODNESS FOR SPELL CHECK!) Well here I am thirty-two and wishing I had spent more time from my youth fine tuning my writing ability, but alas all I can do is try from here! So that is my wish, to be a writer. TO tell a story that is relatable to real live people, who sometimes think their kids are too much and they want to run away from home (what? That's not me!?!). People who live everyday in city's, town's and neighborhoods just like the average person walking down the street.
And I don't want my stories to be so close to actual life that they become some boring whatever, but I want someone like me, a wife, mom, daughter, sister, employee to want to read it and feel good. That maybe there is something out there for the rest of the world, we don't all find Billionaires while working at a hardware store, or meet the rock god of the century while waitressing in a bar and live happily ever after. (Just so you ALL know I still LOVE those books and I do not think of any of them in a negative way WHAT SO EVER, its what got me motivated to start here!) I also don't want it to be like one of those "I'm a mommy hear my reason for (fill in the blanks)!" I want to write fiction, romance maybe even a sci-fi based story. So we'll see what happens, thanks for tagging along I hope you enjoy what will come!
I PROMISE! I AM WRITING!
