R-Evolve

Today, I worked on character sketches for my book and wrote down the rough plot outline. So now it's all written down on paper. I'm hoping it will make it easier for me to go back to whenever I'm stuck. I know where I'm supposed to be headed and I'll get there. Tomorrow, I'm going to go back and start the beginning over. Even if it's just for 15 minutes, I'm going to write something. The one thing I've learned is that I can't sit down and write all day long like I used to. I really believe that I have learned so much about writing in college that it's all swimming in my head. I've read so many novels for classes that I know so many different ways to write. It's all so confusing and now I have to find my voice again that makes me stand out. I don't want to blend in. I don't want to write the next Twilight Saga (ick, no thank you) and I certainly couldn't write the next Harry Potter series (it's too perfect). I'll figure out my own way to be the writer I want to be. And if that is with writing the supposedly profound works I desire then that's the way to go.

The only rule is that there are no rules

I was told the book I want to write will be profound. Yeah, that is if I can actually get over this severe long bout of writer's block I've been experiencing since I graduated college. I learned that writer's block could be because of stress, exhaustion, depression.... ha, that's where it comes from. Who knew?

But I am helping my friend, Kim, in the process of her writing a book. She's wanting to write these murder mysteries and the plot sounds really good but she's afraid. Just like me. She's afraid of what others will think with some things. I told her to just let go of all inhibitions and just be free to write. I can give great advice others..I just can't take my own, I guess.

The book I'm wanting to write is going to be serious. Kim asked me what genre I want to write in and I really didn't know what to say. I don't want to limit myself to one genre. Who says I can't write serious dramatic novels and then write a fantasy novel? I can do that. That's the power of being a writer.

All I know is that I want to move people so much that they cry haha. Yeah, I'm going to be one of those writers.