What, exactly, is the purpose of this blog?
Well, in my entire life I've completed two manuscripts for novels. Neither have been published, though I'm trying to get the second one published. Though it should be noted that right now I'm not even going to touch the first novel with a fifteen-foot pole. And maybe I never will. I finished it years ago, when I was still a budding writer. But I've managed to write a second novel within the last year (by forking up a social life, mind you--though I didn't have much of one to begin with). But I'm tangenting now, so I'm going to get back to my point.
Through both of the previously mentioned writing pieces, I neglected to do something. I neglected to document the process of writing. Now, I know none of this can be particularly interesting to anyone besides myself, but I'm doing it because I can.
Now then! I haven't written much. Ever since I finished my second novel and since I've been on vacation, I've gotten a little lazy. But like every writer, I've got a lot of works in progress. I've got two . . . maybe three. No. Hold on. Let me go make a list.
Okay, I've got three novels in the process of being written. I've got about a page (probably less) written of the first one, though I've got most of the plot down. The second one has been sort of brewing in my head for the last month. I've written little snippets and excerpts, constructed a very basic plot, and created the main characters. But I haven't exactly started any manuscript of any sort. As for the third one--it's the oldest of the three. I had the idea in . . . oh, maybe April or May. Or June. I have about four or five pages of that one written. I've constructed a few characters and I'm sort of fuzzy on the plot, but I know the direction I want it to go in.
The problem with the third novel is that it's general fiction. I think it can even be deemed a "Coming of Age" story. There's nothing wrong with that genre--some of my favorite books are in that genre. But it's not the genre I'm used to writing in. About 98% of what I've ever written involves some fantasy or science fiction of some sort, however subtle or obvious. It's sort of hardwired into my brain to write about stuff like that. This is possibly due to the fact that I grew up on Ghostbusters and monster-y films the 80s. And like millions of others, I grew up on Harry Potter.
Anyways, yeah, slow progress on the Third Novel, blah blah blah, I've probably substantially bored anyone who decided to read this blog.
Then I've got about three-ish short stories that have also been brewing in my mind. And I've got another idea (my most recent one) that could really be either a novel or short story.
So I should probably wrap this up about now.
This will (hopefully) be a decent documentation on my progress with any of these stories.
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