I started something new, again. Only this time it wasn't a new Naomily story, or even Skins. It's going to be a piece of original fiction. I'm hoping it'll be of novel length when it's completed.
A couple of days ago I said that if I have no job after March (which I'm expecting not to due to funding issues) then I will write a novel. Somehow today an idea came to me. So far it's a basic premise for the story, the character set up, families, that sort of thing. I need to work out a complete character profile for my main characters and some of the significant lesser characters. Then I can flesh out the story idea.
I'll keep you updated.
Tonight I wrote from the quote "life's a show and we all play a part" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the musical episode), it worked relatively well with my main character who will be a confident, bitchy girl on the surface.
I hope this story will progress nicely.
Thursday 13 January 2011
Read: Jan 13th - The Postmistress (2)
I've continued reading the book I've been reading since yesterday. The story is really beginning to take hold and I'm more than intrigued as to what will happen in the story.
I was particularly surprised by a paragraph on the Jews. The Holocaust is something we continue to hear about, the history of it and there's museums and such which give a lot of information. This is the first time, from what I recall, where I have read a book about the Second World War that isn't about the Holocaust, but has referred to it.
It's almost like gaining an insight into what it was like for a British person hearing stories of a wall being built around a city. We usually read about it as something that happened a long time ago or something that is occurring for the character we're focused on.
This story has shown the other side, the blind lack of knowledge that people in Britain had about what the Nazis were doing. They didn't know. They hoped it was just containing the Jews in an area, the way they discuss it suggests that the Jews being gassed is something they not only had no idea about but I imagine it would have made them feel just as sick as it makes me feel considering the torture that went on.
I was particularly surprised by a paragraph on the Jews. The Holocaust is something we continue to hear about, the history of it and there's museums and such which give a lot of information. This is the first time, from what I recall, where I have read a book about the Second World War that isn't about the Holocaust, but has referred to it.
It's almost like gaining an insight into what it was like for a British person hearing stories of a wall being built around a city. We usually read about it as something that happened a long time ago or something that is occurring for the character we're focused on.
This story has shown the other side, the blind lack of knowledge that people in Britain had about what the Nazis were doing. They didn't know. They hoped it was just containing the Jews in an area, the way they discuss it suggests that the Jews being gassed is something they not only had no idea about but I imagine it would have made them feel just as sick as it makes me feel considering the torture that went on.
Write: Jan 12th - In This Life chapter 22
I wrote chapter twenty-two of my Skins story, 'In This Life' and really...that's all I need to say!
Unless you'd rather I bore you with stories of Anna Karenina and a postmistress again, haha.
Busy day tomorrow, not looking forward to it really. It'll be over soon, in about 14 hours I'll be able to relax and continue to read and write.
Twelve days in a row, for someone who's struggled lately with writing, this feels so unbelievably good.
Despite having a ton of Naomily fanfics to continue writing, after January 27th, I will also have the new Skins characters to write about. After all, I can't let someone else have all the fun! ;P
Unless you'd rather I bore you with stories of Anna Karenina and a postmistress again, haha.
Busy day tomorrow, not looking forward to it really. It'll be over soon, in about 14 hours I'll be able to relax and continue to read and write.
Twelve days in a row, for someone who's struggled lately with writing, this feels so unbelievably good.
Despite having a ton of Naomily fanfics to continue writing, after January 27th, I will also have the new Skins characters to write about. After all, I can't let someone else have all the fun! ;P
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