I've always been silly, strange and creative, I've doodled, and written little stories and put on elaborately choreographed interpretive dances. (Thank you Pocahontas and Little Mermaid for bringing out the best interpretive dances...)
So I had this thought. Maybe I'll write a story, see if that helps me feel creative again. So I dug up this list of book ideas that I had generated over the years, and poured over it. Seeing if anything sounded fun, and what perked my creative juices.
So I started to write.
I wrote a lot, I was averaging over a thousand words a week. And considering I was also working and doing all sorts of other activities, I was rather proud of myself. Writing continued and at the end of my first month I had 27,000 words. This was huge to me, I'd never written anything so long.
Three months accumulated and I was at 91,000 words, that's roughly 230 pages. :)
The story has been so fun to write and has evolved into something much longer and more exciting that I thought. Yesterday I finished 1/3 of the story, the first "act" if you will; and I've written 127,659 words. That's 290ish pages, (8.5"x11") Roughly a bit longer than Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which sits at 107,253 words.
This is my first draft, and I know there will be lots of editing and some re-writing and cutting, but I'm ecstatic. Golly this is fun!
That's awesome Elyse! I'd love to get a slice of that awesome pie sometime. :) What kind of story is it? Did you already have the idea or did it come to you as you were writing? It would be cool to pursue one of my little story ideas sometime. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks Shara, it's been a blast, and I'm not planning on stopping any time soon. It's a story that I had the idea for years ago, and it evolved from there. It's a YA fiction, based on the relationships between witches/wizards and their felines. A lot of the plot came as I started just writing for the sake of writing and saw what the characters did once I put them into motion. I knew major plot points and where the story would eventually go. As for having a slice of that pie, lol. I'm not sharing it with many people just yet. Mostly select family, since it's rough and needs a lot of work; I don't think I'll be letting many people read it. But someday, maybe. ;) you should totally write. I bet you would be a great writer, your so creative. I just know you have a unique story to tell.
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