Writing

Let's just say I've been focusing on the real estate blog, yea, that's why I haven't posted. Anyway.

I've come up with this crazy idea to write a short story of some sort. My daughter Jess has been taking English 101 for dual credit this summer. Helping her and reading her drafts has made me pretty nostalgic for the process. I really loved creating stories and writing themed papers. I excelled (because of volume I believe) at persuasives and researched topics. I think that is why I stopped writing, the tedium of school projects made me lose sight of the fun of the creative side of writing. The real problem now is I don't really know which direction to head.

Some people say write about what you like to read about. Well, the two genre's I lean towards are children's fantasy fiction and crime novels. Since I don't know anything factual about crime and the judicial system, I'm inclined to start with a fantasy fiction work. At least that way I can embellish all the details and no one will be the wiser.

However, I'm still left wondering which way to go. It seems everything has been done. Of course, there is the Harry Potter series about the boy wizard. Another of my favorites has been Artemis Fowl and his world of underground fairies. Then, of course, there were the Spiderwick Chronicles about the fairies that live above ground. You had Leven Thumps and the world of dreams, the Baudelaire orphans and their Series of Unfortunate Events, and Percy Jackson and his tales of Olympus. Oh my oh my.

I think I just need to pull a storyline out of my head and see where it leads. If I try to predetermine where I need to fit I'm bound to be disappointed with my results. I had thought about writing our adoption story. I'm just not sure that is the way I want to go...it wasn't all that out of the ordinary for one. Maybe someday I'll commit it to paper so Sammy will have it with him always, but maybe just not on my first time out.

Well, it might be time to ask those closest to me to vet some of these crazy idea's floating around in my head. That in and of itself frighten's me. It is always hardest to ask for critiques when you are this early in the process. After all, I haven't really even begun.