I have been working on my current novel on and off since just before christmas. The novel is in the fantasy genre about a modern day girl ending up in a fantasy world similar to Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and the Narnia adventures.
I came to a decision about this novel today which is that I think it's time I gave it up at least for the time being. I'm not feeling the words, I'm struggling to write it and not due to writers block, I just don't hear my characters voices and my heart isn't in it. To be fair I have done much on it, I have written the first chapter three times and it still doesn't feel right and I've done the second chapter twice.
I have actually found writing this hard because of the total fantasy element of it, everything I write even the landscape has to be totally improvised and it is proving to be much harder than i thought. The novel is written down in terms of what happens beginining to end in a synopsis format so hopefully I can return to it in the future, and I even have a map I drew of the fantasy world which my character enters and travels through. Truth is the enthusiasm has gone and I am no longer enjoying this project, looking back I can't remember the last time I did enjoy writing or thinking about this without the sense of dread that went with it.
Now although I may be putting my fantasy novel on the back burner that doesn't mean I will stop writing or blogging. In fact I have another novel idea which has been in the pipeline for longer than my fantasy novel and it is that idea that I am full of enthusiasm for writing for. I am going to write another historical fiction story but unlike "The stepmother" which is based on characters who didn't exist but lived in a historical period, this novel will actually be based on a real person. I don't want to give too much away, but the new project will have the working title "The Orphan Princess."
So anyway I'm off now to go and play with my new plot bunnies.
Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
Monday, 30 May 2011
Friday, 22 October 2010
key to my world
I've had an unusually stressful day today.
My car has battery problems with have got so bad that I have to jumpstart it everytime I want to use it- which is a bit of a pain- and i have made 4 journeys and on 3 of those I had to jumpstart and now my radio needs to have the key code put in to make it work again. It's gotten so bad that I'm getting a new one on sunday.
I am back to work on tuesday following my accident, so less time for writing unfortunately and this will make nano or the more intense and interesting as i will be doing it on a full time job.
I also saw my friend today who gave birth four months ago, but due to my accident and not being able to drive I hadn't been to see her so it was lovely to catch up with her and her baby is adorable and so well behaved.
I came home this afternoon, to find that the central heating still hadn't kicked in and it was 13 degrees celsius in my living room, and after checking the thermostat programmer called the rental agency. They sent someone out, and he said it was due to the pressure and he just had to push a button internally to fix it and asked for the boiler key. My response- what key? Without the key the boiler could not be opened and my heating could not be fixed. The guy who came out is coming back tomorrow hopefully if he can obtain one, and in the meantime I have been looking for a non-existant key which I think may have been taken by the chap who did our last boiler inspection as he would be the only one who touched it. I certainly had no reason to take apart the boiler. So I am sat here under multiple layers of blankets and bedjackets, my fingers turning to ice, wondering whether I will be cold tonight and would it be worth getting out the hot water bottle.
As for tomorrow, we are having a pre-nano meetup in my town which I would like to attend, however, this will all depend on what time Mr fix-my-boiler turns up and leaves by, as I will have to wait in all day for him until he turns up.
As you can see today has been a day of keys. Keys to boilers, radio keycodes, even the key turning the ignition after using jump leads on the car leading to a power pack. There are many definitions as to what a key is and does but the best one i found was, "something that affords a mean of access". This definition automatically makes me think back to my novelling project on NANOWRIMO, as a novel can give you access to worlds you never dreamed of like in gulliver's travels, alice in wonderland, the wizard of oz etc. but they can also give you the access and means to escape your world whether it be for just a few hours, half an hour, ten minutes or even a few minutes.
Novels give us artistic license to use our imaginations to their full potential,and they are marvellous tools which can influence our dreams and lives. Novels tell us that the impossible is possible,that anyone can be what they want, do what they want, believe what they want, and go where they want to without any fear of judgement.
Novels can change your own world my making you think differently about something, and some novels are a reflection of the real world allowing you to view it through different eyes. If novels are keys then that only leaves one question: Where do you want to go today?
My car has battery problems with have got so bad that I have to jumpstart it everytime I want to use it- which is a bit of a pain- and i have made 4 journeys and on 3 of those I had to jumpstart and now my radio needs to have the key code put in to make it work again. It's gotten so bad that I'm getting a new one on sunday.
I am back to work on tuesday following my accident, so less time for writing unfortunately and this will make nano or the more intense and interesting as i will be doing it on a full time job.
I also saw my friend today who gave birth four months ago, but due to my accident and not being able to drive I hadn't been to see her so it was lovely to catch up with her and her baby is adorable and so well behaved.
I came home this afternoon, to find that the central heating still hadn't kicked in and it was 13 degrees celsius in my living room, and after checking the thermostat programmer called the rental agency. They sent someone out, and he said it was due to the pressure and he just had to push a button internally to fix it and asked for the boiler key. My response- what key? Without the key the boiler could not be opened and my heating could not be fixed. The guy who came out is coming back tomorrow hopefully if he can obtain one, and in the meantime I have been looking for a non-existant key which I think may have been taken by the chap who did our last boiler inspection as he would be the only one who touched it. I certainly had no reason to take apart the boiler. So I am sat here under multiple layers of blankets and bedjackets, my fingers turning to ice, wondering whether I will be cold tonight and would it be worth getting out the hot water bottle.
As for tomorrow, we are having a pre-nano meetup in my town which I would like to attend, however, this will all depend on what time Mr fix-my-boiler turns up and leaves by, as I will have to wait in all day for him until he turns up.
As you can see today has been a day of keys. Keys to boilers, radio keycodes, even the key turning the ignition after using jump leads on the car leading to a power pack. There are many definitions as to what a key is and does but the best one i found was, "something that affords a mean of access". This definition automatically makes me think back to my novelling project on NANOWRIMO, as a novel can give you access to worlds you never dreamed of like in gulliver's travels, alice in wonderland, the wizard of oz etc. but they can also give you the access and means to escape your world whether it be for just a few hours, half an hour, ten minutes or even a few minutes.
Novels give us artistic license to use our imaginations to their full potential,and they are marvellous tools which can influence our dreams and lives. Novels tell us that the impossible is possible,that anyone can be what they want, do what they want, believe what they want, and go where they want to without any fear of judgement.
Novels can change your own world my making you think differently about something, and some novels are a reflection of the real world allowing you to view it through different eyes. If novels are keys then that only leaves one question: Where do you want to go today?
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