[tweetmeme source=”ibethyap”] Goodreads.com’s 2011 Book Challenge forced me to continuously read books in the past few months. Today, I suddenly realized that I want to be a writer. Looking back, I’ve started to write creatively in elementary with silly stories/scripts. High school was the point in time where I was addicted to writing poems. I’ve written several scripts for the play/presentation in several classes. I even joined the script writing contest. During review school, I’ve switched to writing poems in Chinese. Nowadays, I’m sticking with my blog.
The problem with my writing: it’s a way to express myself. Most of my posts would start with “I”. Expressing how I feel and think. Basically, an outlet of my emotions. I would be so happy if I would be able to write my own novel. I won’t go into the historical romance genre. I would need to do a lot of research if I want to write one. Besides, it would be hard to write up the “romance” part. Right now, I want to write a story that is heart-warming. So that people who read my book would be happy. The same emotions after reading some of the books.
Laure Lee Guhrke’s characters are fond of writing. It’s inspiring enough. In fact, she has given a lot of tips on how to improve one’s writing. One has to practice, be open to criticisms, and write the book not to impress but to really express a story. A storyline that can influence people. If I want to truly succeed in writing, I would have to look at the plot differently. It might be hard to start doing so.
I’ve just add on writing to the list of my frustrations. I’m a frustrated artist, driver, linguists, etc. In fact, “I’m frustrated” might simplify my frustrations in life. There are a lot of things I want to do. But somehow, I can’t seem to get my life on the road and start doing that things that matters to me most. In relation to writing up stories, maybe I can start with writing fanfics first. Then, we’ll see from there.
This was a nice article to read, thank you for sharing it.
………..The statistic that writing coaches book marketing coaches and write-a-book-in-a-weekend programs love to shout to the world is that 80 of people say they want to write a book… That whole I cant write if Im not inspired is just part of the writing a book fantasy too by the way.