A New beginning Writing Fiction

Gage Rich

06 August 2008

I had started writing it the prior Nov during a thing by the name of the nation's Novel Writing Month, during that the objective is to pen 50000 words in the month. Naturally 50000 words is hardly 1/2 way towards finishing a decent sized novel, but by the end of my thirty days I had topped out at approximately 80000.

It took me till the following Apr to provide the last 20 thousand, and go thru the laborious process of edits and re-writes, but at last it was whipped into a shape that I presumed respectable enough to send off for publication. One of the catches was the book could have been stopped, but the tale wasnt. I had left my personalities halfway thru their journey and was going to need to write a 2nd instalment to get them over the hump.

Unlike the 1st book, where I sat down and wrote with no real concept of where it was going, gullible in the personalities to find their way thru the tale, Id planned book 2 out in some detail. I know precisely what should occur when, to who, and where, and so in principle it should have been a chunk of cake to pen. Yet, aside from writing some pre-history for the 1st book that I felt it had to give it more texture, Ive got zip to show from the last two-plus years but an opening chapter and the 1st paragraph of the 2nd chapter. It's not for absence of trying either, for the 1st few months Id sit down each day and stare at my monitor and write, but more frequently then not Id just finish up removing everything Id written before closing down the PC. To assert it was maddening would be rather of an understatement I suspect, but there actually isnt any other word for it. The difficulty was that what I was writing on the page didnt sound like it sounded in my head. In my imagination I knew what I wanted the words on the paper to form but I couldnt reproduce it regardless how hard I attempted. I would have liked to create sorcery but all I appeared capable of were banalities. I can be mulish on occasion, and for a bit I endured in sitting down each day. Ultimately I just couldnt muster the eagerness for opening a file each day and writing a thousand or so words just to erase them again, so I gave up. I loved your series so much and am advising it to all my buddy.