It's only in this last year, after finishing my studies, that I've started my quest to write the novel. Subscribing to Writing Magazine and getting myself a copy of the Writers & Artists' Yearbook . I also bought myself New Novelist - a programme that many people I know bought it and seemed to think it would write the novel for them. Personally I like the programme being that it makes keeping notes a hell of a lot simpler than notebooks and scraps of paper all over the place, not finding them until weeks later - something I found I had a great knack for.
My ambition is not to write the next best-selling blockbuster but to just write down a six year old idea that won't leave me alone until the characters' stories are told. If it leads to me becoming published than that would be a delightful bonus.
Monday 20 August 2007
Hard to ignore...
When an idea that popped into your head six years ago lingers around there and just keeps growing and growing, how can you ignore it?
Well this is what happened to me. At the age of 15 an idea for a novel popped into my head. At the time I didn't know what to make of it - I took out an old notebook and jotted down the few things I could and then put it aside.
I'd always written stories and had recently branched out into fanfiction, finally doing the unthinkable - showing other people how I wrote. For this time I ignored the idea and focused on writing fanfiction.
When I started my studies at school I hadn't thought about the idea for almost a year. When, on day, I was clearing out some old books and found a tatty old notebook - in which was the idea, along with names that had popped into my head. Reading it seemed to bring it all back and I found myself jotted down more and more notes. Eventually writing full character bios and even some scenes.
Well this is what happened to me. At the age of 15 an idea for a novel popped into my head. At the time I didn't know what to make of it - I took out an old notebook and jotted down the few things I could and then put it aside.
I'd always written stories and had recently branched out into fanfiction, finally doing the unthinkable - showing other people how I wrote. For this time I ignored the idea and focused on writing fanfiction.
When I started my studies at school I hadn't thought about the idea for almost a year. When, on day, I was clearing out some old books and found a tatty old notebook - in which was the idea, along with names that had popped into my head. Reading it seemed to bring it all back and I found myself jotted down more and more notes. Eventually writing full character bios and even some scenes.
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