Thursday, September 27, 2007 Y
It's not easy to write a story.. I've been working on a story of mine for a few months and I'm getting nowhere with it... I stopped during a period of time due to writer's block. When i once again return to read through my work, I find the 'spark' gone, the enthusiasm vanished, and the story unfinished... :(
I never get the chance to write a complete story... for the past few years...it's all bits and pieces... After stoping for a few weeks, I suddenly realised that no matter how hard I try to become a writer, I'm just not getting there...Maybe it was my wishful thinking, or I'm just simply being blinded by my own thoughts and interest that I failed to notice the simplest thing in the whole equation. All these time my stories are evolved around the supernatural, the unbelievable, becuase of the influence of X-Men and other movies that are my favourites... It seems really insane and crazy sometimes when I thnk back, of how my stories never left this genre before."Let the characters talk to you" was Tess Gerritssen's words(one of her many), and during my process of writing my own story 'Power X-Treme', I felt it! I really felt her words, I let the characters do the talking, their names and characteristics just came to me naturally as it is...But like a bullet train the feeling came, it whizzed past me. When I look over my unfinished story, I found the 'talking' gone. No doubt I can still produce a finished story, since i know how to continue it, because i had this whole planned out in my head. But that's the problem!!!I had a certain path in my head that i was gonna take my story to, and because of that, when i once again return to my story after the break, i still remembered where i'm heading for in the story.
But I don't feel the joy and enthusiasm to complete the story or even write it, don't feel the spirit to want to write the story, to stay up late just to write it, no more ideas came to my mind, it was all the PLAN that was in my head now, not the PROCESS of writing... :(When I enjoy the whole process of writing, I could produce a work and write out something completely deranged and completely out of the world, and doesnt make sense at that point of time. Then towards the end, loose ends are tied up. This is the way I want to write and this is the way I want my story to turn out to be... I want to write in this manner that I make things fall into place/explain themselves even without knowing that I'm doing so.However I can't stop myself from writing, just not 'Power X-Treme'... It seemed to have lost the magic on me... All I see now are 2 options: 1. Give up Power X-Treme. 2. Wait till the 'spark' returns... Either way, Power X-Treme will be left on the shelf for the time being...
Y The Lady @
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