Don't believe the title. It's lying to you.
There's been little progress this week on the fabled story I'm trying to write this year. While — yes — I've written out most of the plot by now, I've decided to rewrite that up so that I can make it smoother, less messy. There were WAY too many POV characters going on in a story I want to write simple.
So yes, I want to write a nice, simple, 80,000 word long story this year (I've been saying that for a year now, so so far 100% of my attempts have failed) because I feel like I need to START with something simple. Something I SHOULD be proud of.
Because, that's how I feel: I feel like I can't write a story that I'm not proud of; if I'm not enjoying the plot of what I'm writing, why would anyone enjoying reading it? They WON'T. So that's what I've got to fix — a nice, simple, plot, that's gripping, and has a nice little twist near the end, and then the most INCREDIBLE ending in the world that you'll demand all of the books from me that I'll have no choice by to keep writing, to keep you all asking what's going to happen next.
You see? That's what I want. I want to be able to entice you into a story, love my characters, and desperately ask me what's going to happen. I want you to not be able to wait for the next instalment to a series that I might be writing — to be gutted when there's a cliffhanger ending — to come up with your own theories to what's going on in this world I've created!
And there's so quick way to getting to this. I just need to keep writing little things, and building up to the big things. Simple stories now, brilliantly MAD stories later. Patience, patience ...
The only sad thing about all this is that these days I feel like I don't have enough time to write anything; these A-Level things are rather time consuming. A factor I need to work on.
Somehow, I need to juggle revision and work with some of my own time and writing. And then a load of reading on the side.
To the many viewers of this blog, I wish you a good day! I'll be back whenever.
