genamarie

The Secret Garden
2019-08-08 02:58:16 (UTC)

I participated in NaNoWriMo ..

I participated in NaNoWriMo last November, and it made me really enjoy writing and forced me to “finish” my first novel. I say “finish” because it can be fleshed out, scenes can be added and taken out, and the ending might actually change, but it’s over 50K words and is a good story. But I’m thinking about doing it again this year. I have two stories floating around in my head; another quasi-romance like the one I did last year, and a sci-fi thriller set in a dystopian future. I’ve NEVER tried to write science fiction before and despite being an actual science teacher, I don’t think I know enough science to make it realistic enough to make readers stop and think about it.
The novel I wrote last year brought my and Peter’s “relationship” to life. It started out being the story we have been writing together for the last decade, but took a turn when IRL, he started dating his ex and told me how much fun he was having. My brain stopped and the novel relationship just couldn’t get going again. My main characters couldn’t survive in the novel what was going on in real life. Not sure why that happened.
I asked him to read it and give me feedback, but I don’t know that he’s even looked at it, or he did and it was so disappointing that he doesn’t even want to discuss it. Needless to say, we didn’t get together in the book, just like we won’t get together in life. Meh.
But now I can’t decide which of the new stories I want to pursue. The quasi-romance, sadly, is also just a fantasy that I have had for a very long time and I am afraid that if I start writing it, the characters’ lives will spill out over into my life and I’ll find myself thinking fantastically about the real-life namesake of the fictional main male character. I CANNOT afford to let that happen. The sci-fi story would actually be a book I could get published, if I could write it convincingly. I’ve never tried sci-fi and I don’t actually read a ton of it myself. Meh.




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