Distractions

Hello All,
I know I have not updated this thing in forever but college has gotten in the way and any free moment I had I dedicated to my story (which still isn't finished). Now, here I am, with enough free time to make a work-a-holic feel antsy, and I am blogging.
Not that there is anything wrong with blogging of course but I feel like this time should be spent on actually finishing that stupid story that I love so dearly. I think my patients with it has just run out and I just can't handle it anymore. Part of me has started to wish that my word document could take a brain reading of my mind and write it for me but I have yet to find the button to accomplish this.
Anyway this post is called distractions for a reason and hopefully by now you have figured it out. Yes, yes YOU are the distraction keeping me from my writing, in fact you are my fifth. My others consist of Charlie McDonnell youtube blogs, teaching myself how to work iMovie, getting in touch with people I haven't hung out with sense pre-school, and writing another story. The last one seems a bit stupid I know but I was running out of things to do.
Now don't get me wrong, my story isn't so frustratingly difficult that I can't write it, I am just sick of writing the same story over and over again for three years straight. I have everything planned out, languages written, and maps drawn up, I just need the will power to fill in the skeleton. Which is why I have given myself a dead line. On January 18th I must be finished with my novel, no excuses! By then I will send it off to my grammarian to edit and then off to the publishing house in hopes of someone buying it.
Well my first iMovie is done, so I am going to go now and hopefully start writing.

First Chapters

One of the hardest things for any writer to do, is to write their stories first chapter. This chapter has to have an enticing first sentence and a riveting first paragraph. If not, the reader will put your book back on the shelf and decide to get another book about something that has been over done.

So how do we do it? How do we write that sentence that makes the reader fall in love your book completely?

The truth?

I don't know.

But I am trying. Each day I work at it and work at it. I read stories and try to find my favorite opening sentences. From what I have read Jane Austen is the best at it. Her first sentences are so memorable that they are still quoted to this day.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."

—Jane Austen, Pride and prejudice, ch. 1

You see it is clever and makes you want to read more of what this witty author has to say.

Once you have got that down though how do keep them interested? How do prepare them from what is to come without giving so much away? Leave your opinions in the comment box bellow and together we might be able to come up with the best written first chapter since Austen.

Back Tracking

This week I kind of… back tracked I guess you can say. My whole life was moving forward and sadly I went backwards.
You see ever since I can remember I have been doing plays. I always loved preforming, whenever I made someone feel something they weren’t feeling before I would feel accomplished. When I played Aunt Sadie in My Favorite Year and made everyone laugh, I was ecstatic. When I played M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias and made each audience member cry I had never been more pleased with myself. And at that time I felt as though it was what I was supposed to do. Touch people in a way that made their emotions run crazy. But whenever I was off of the stage, practicing and reciting, it was awful. The group I was with was filled with drama, they were all nice people, but we had been with each other for far too long. Plus I never felt like I belonged. I tried to though. I forced myself to like someone in the cast, which ended up being the worst decision of my life. But because of that decision, I found out how much I really didn’t fit in with any of them.
I started noticing that the only thing any of us had in common was our love for preforming. Besides that I was the only one who read constantly, the only one who was old fashion, and the only one who dressed in clothes that were from an older time period. I remember thinking I was just different. So I decided to write about it. I had always loved telling stories, so why not try writing them all down? And that was how I discovered my love of writing. Within no time at all I found a school for writers and sent my work to them.
I remember when I first met my class mates I found they weren’t like me either. They were all quiet, while I—got excited easily. But that didn’t stop me from finding out we had almost everything in common, the reading, the time periods, the imaginations. For the first time I ever I felt like I belonged. And for the last year my life has been perfect. My writing has improved immensely and I feel as though I have finally discovered the true me. But when the year ended I was depressed and bored. No one who went to my school lived near me and I was all alone. I wrote of course, keeping in touch with everyone, but I still need to hang out with someone. So I back tracked.
Yup. You guessed it, I rejoined the drama group. Even though I am having fun, I feel as though I am letting myself down. I was moving forward, making something of my life and there I was signing up for something that had nothing to do with my future. I am not saying I never want to do plays again. But I don’t want to preform until I can get something published. Until I get my dream started.
So get ready guys, this summer is going to be a clash of the old and the new.

A Pretty Good Day

Yesterday I woke up wondering what I was going to do. One thing you should know about me is that I love to be busy. I love having my schedule full, I love trying to fit in seconds to write my story. Plus I feel I write are better during my hectic days. But when I am writing in the summer, when my schedule is fully open, my stories become boring like my life at that moment. So today I woke up deciding to do something about it. I went down stairs and started upon my new room. This summer I will be moving into the downstairs bed room but in order to do that I have to remove everything in that room and find a place for it. So I guess I won't be moving until the end of the summer.

Anyways while I was working on it I got a call from one of my best friends who lives out of town (he lives about 5 hours away from me) saying he wanted to surprise me by taking out for breakfast. Within in ten minutes he was at my house whisking me off on an adventure with his friends. It was so much fun and I still cannot believe I saw him. When I returned home I continued with my room. Get a good amount of work done, clearing out spaces and getting ready to put all the stuff in the downstairs room now into storage. The whole time I got to spend quality time with my family.

The last part of the day I hung out with my friend Paige (I will post her website link below) and together we worked on resumes and job applications while eating ice cream. All and all I think it was a pretty good day.

http://prettylittleglamazon.com/

Blogging for Fun

At the moment I am reading one of my best friends stories. It is quite amazing! I will enclose her blog info, you should defiantly read her stuff. And it makes me realize you can really tell who a person is by the way she writes her stories...weird I know.

http://glassbirdchirping.blogspot.com/

Also I am editing my own work, it is relaxing and rather boring (Do you like the boring color I chose?). I hate going over stuff I have already written, it seems so (red)undant. But I know, in the long run, it will help. Especially if I want to achieve my goal.

I am almost done with this story. Then I can begin upon the sequel! I am so excited to begin! I know that the third one will be my favorite to write, I kind of want to begin on it now- But I must go in order.

Also before I leave you all for the night, I would like to thank Miss Sawyer Fuller. She helped me with this amazing new way of blogging.

http://sawyerfuller.blogspot.com/

I will be posting more soon! x