I haven’t written anything in about a year. I’m not really sure why… I guess I’ve just been focused on my own life. It was my senior year of highschool, and let me tell you, I did have a lot of maturity issues to work through. I still do. And we aren’t talking adorable I-still-play-Pokemon immaturity. We’re talking developing skills I will need when I live on my own two months from now.
So anyway, I’m back! And hopefully to stay. I started writing again yesterday (maybe something I’ll post soon?) and it made me realize I had completely forgotten how much I love writing. I love everything about it. I love developing the characters and plot and setting etc, and more importantly I love reading other people’s writing. I love reading the blogs of writers. But enough of that gush.
I’m starting this blog so maybe I can work out my thoughts about why or why not I may be having writer’s block at any given point in time, and maybe I can sort through my ideas. I don’t expect anyone is going to read this, but that’s ok, it’s mostly for me anyway.
Here is my ultimate dream: It isn’t particularly exciting, but I’ve come to realize that this will make me happy even if I can’t accomplish anything else. I would like to write a book that is just popular enough to get translated into another language. And then to go to the country where that language is spoken for a book signing or whatever.
My favorite to write, if you haven’t noticed, is silly romance stories for teenage girls. Not the most convicting of literature, I’m sure, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t as important as any other genre. When I was younger, I was not exactly a happy child. I was very antisocial and didn’t like anything about myself or my life. Perhaps irrational, but it’s how I felt. But when I read… it made me happy. Despite all of the things I thought were going wrong in the world, stupid teenage girl books made me incredibly happy. And if I could bring happiness to just one girl with writing… well, that seems more fulfilling than anything else I can think of.
I’d like to write some more serious literature eventually as well… but for starters, I’m sticking to chicklit (which I’m embarassed saying, so never expect that to happen again.)
Anyway, the first issue of the blog I’ll address is plaigarism. I know several authors have been having issues with this lately, such as Myrika (because I’m a stalker and read other authors’ blogs.) In short; plaigarism sucks. As far as I know, I’ve only been plaigarized once: by Shikatema4ever on fanfiction, who stole Cinderella Never Saw This One Coming and changed all of the character names to JAPANESE ANIME names. I mean, I would have been kind of flattered otherwise, but Japanese anime? Seriously? Especially because I looked back on that story, and it could use a lot of work. It was kind of embarassing.
So I guess my point of that is, keep an eye out for plaigarizers. If you read anything that seems suspicious, such as character names seeming awkward – i.e. Japanese anime names in my story – or anything sounding familiar, do some research!! You’ll really help someone out if you let them know they are being plaigarized.
Anyway, over and out. That’s quite enough for one entry.
