Monthly Archives: July 2013

Happily Ever After

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Romance Novel Outline – Attempt #1

Let me see, it should go something like this…

-Girl is looking for love

-Girls is walking down the street one sunny day, trips and accidentally falls into the arms of a tall, dark and handsome stranger on the street

-She thinks he is a totally hottie and thinks this must be love at first sight

-They go on a few dates and she thinks he is perfect… despite his extensive criminal record

-Time passes and they live happily ever after

-Until…  one day she dies in a freak lawn mower accident and he tells police, he has no idea what happened.

 

Hmmm…maybe I should back to my other novel.

Habit Forming

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According to books on creating a habit (I believe “7 habits of highly effective people” is one of the them), a habit is created in 21 days, if done every day.

So to create a writing habit I should write every day, whether it’s 1,000 words added to my novel, morning pages (as mentioned in the book-“The Artist’s Way”) or a  blog post and if I do it every day it will become a habit.

It should be easy, right? (hahaha…ok… hahahah… wait…hahahaha)

I mean it’s not like trying to develop a habit of exercising or eating healthy after all!

Writing is something I love to do, it should be super easy, right?

It’s All About Me

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So many of the “How to write a novel” books contain a warning label, “as an inexperienced and newby novelist, what ever you do…NEVER EVER EVER write a novel in first person.  Then the books drone on and on describing the insurmountable difficulties that will come with this viewpoint.

With this wisdom, every novel attempt of mine has been in third person.  Writing the life and experiences of this complete stranger, trying to care how she takes her coffee or how she is insecure because her dog doesn’t love her.

But in the end, I feel nothing for this flat uninteresting character.

Ok, so there, I admit it…I am a narcissist!

I’m self absorbed and only care about my point of view! So with this, I will attempt the unthinkable first person and then maybe just maybe my writing will go from suckish to “hey that’s not completely awful.”

And maybe when I’m done, I’ll switch it to third person to protect the innocent.