I'm renaming my story Dawn for the moment. It will probably change soon, but that's better than The Dream, which is what it was formerly.
Good news and bad news. Okay, so I've officially reached the size of an official novel at 40,000 words. Yay! And guess what? Wonder of wonders. I'm stuck again! Again! I'm approaching the romance section of this novel (Yes! I can call it a novel now!) and to be quite frank, I'm kind of scared to write it. Not that it's going to be detailed or anything. Far from that, but I just don't know how romance works. I don't know about you, but I've never been in love before. What does it feel like? Is it just like having a crush, but exaggerated? And the guy falls in love first, so I was planning on doing a scene in the guy's point of view to start to show that. But how do guys fall in love? If I don't even know how girls fall in love, how am I supposed to write it from a guy's perspective? I've read quite a few romance novels. I know how they work. Then why can't I do this? This is my little dilemma/rant/thing. I hope I didn't bore you. :) I was interviewing my character today for an assignment with multi-genre writing. He wasn't in the best of moods. He really didn't want to be interviewed, but he did it because he said that he was going to prove Emma wrong. A couple of days ago, she claimed that an interview with him would be boring, because he has a tendency to refuse to answer my questions. He responded that he would show her that he could talk if he wanted to and that he wasn't always stubborn. So I was stuck with a moody character. He answered maybe eighteen questions before he refused to answer any more. I had this conversation today with my dad: Dad: Hannah, you're kind of scaring me with the schizophrenia thing. How do you hear your characters talking to you? Me: Uh.....I don't know.... They just do? Dad: How? Me: I ask them a question in my head and I hear their answer in their voice in my head. Dad: So, you're not talking to them? Me: Well, yeah, in my head. Dad: I think you may need to be taken to a doctor... Right now, I'm struggling with the dilemma whether to make him think I'm insane and stay true to my characters, or admit that it's really all in my imaginations and ruin my image of a crazy writer. I stick to letting him think I'm insane. He knows that I'm sort of joking...I hope.
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About Me!Hannah writes to satisfy her imagination. She's written six books so far--five of which need to be rewritten--and is working on a seventh. She ranges through a variety of genres, but favors contemporary YA, fixing broken characters. She wants to use her writing to change people and bring hope. She's currently going to college for Nursing and that takes up most of her writing time. She's a rather stereotypical writer, talking to imaginary friends, eavesdropping on people at the store, secretly being nosy, stashing herself away in her room with a paper and pen and chocolate and her teddy bear. She loves Jesus, the way the morning smells, her family of seven (four siblings), old movies, fairy tales, candles at night and helping people. She writes on another blog at nerdywriter.blogspot.com to hopefully build her chances of publication. My Author Site:Archives
December 2016
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