I started writing a novel. I researched the best way to outline, found a fantastic site about a Snowflake method, and began my journey. Studied my characters, made my timeline, spent hours pouring over my first sentence, and finally had the bare bones of the structure of what was to be The Greatest Novel on Earth.
And then I quit. Who would read this? My mom and dad, my grandparents, possibly my husband, and my daughter, when she asks for a bedtime story, would hear it, one chapter at a time. Beyond that? Anyone unlucky enough to be bored stiff and within arm's reach where I could tie them to the nearest chair and shove it in their face, forcing them to read word for word. And that's it. I'm not all that entertaining as a novelist. I know what I enjoy reading, and I can put a sentence together, but putting a sentence together that I would enjoy reading? Not so easy, as it turns out.
Naturally for me, at the first sign of a bump in the road, I toss my book aside and move on to the next thing. I tend to do that - start a project, spend some time on it, and NEVER FINISH IT! Not my most honorable personality trait, but there it is. So goes the story - scrapbooking? Scrapped. Fishing? Abandoned. Clarinet? Ignored. Working out? HA!
So, at a request from a close friend, I turned to her blog, read it, and decided that, since I'm already signed up, I might as well create my own blog. Here I am. I'm sure this is just another one of those soon-to-be-forgotten things, but for the time being, I'll blog. And, with the hope that this will be my motivation to finish something for once in my life, I will put it out there for the world to see:
I will write this book if it kills me! And it will be amazing, even if only to my incredibly biased, precious family. So get ready, world, I'm going on an adventure!
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