I remember the exact moment I knew I wanted to write a novel.
I've written my entire life practically, though I never called myself a writer. I kept a diary when I was a kid and teen, religiously....pages upon pages I'd pour my thoughts onto each night...especially in high school with teenage drama at it's peak. I was the reporter for a club in high school too..even won a state award for it. It was thrilling to have my little pieces published in local newspapers...see my name in lights...or newsprint anyway. I even applied to college for Journalism- I passed on it though. But I continued to write in my diary/journal..sometimes I went months without writing...adult life can get so busy.
But the moment I wanted to write a novel..an entire fictional story...that came at a friend's house during game night...before we all had kids. A bunch of early twenty-somethings playing Guestures and drinking. At one point, a couple of my friends broke out into song..an old song- like 60's I think. We laughed and everyone continued on....except me. The wheels in my brain were spinning. What if I took that silly song lyric and applied the situation to a real person in present day...and wrote a story about it. I could do that!!
And so started my infatuation with writing stories and creating my own worlds.
That original story did get shelved..the MC was male and I found it incredibly difficult to write from a male's perspective, especially in 1st person. I will finish it some day though...i still love the concept! I moved on to something a little closer to my heart after that. And like many novelist, my first completed story was based on my own life. I love that story so much...it was so near and dear to me, as crappy as it was!! But I had done it...I had completed an entire novel!!! I felt so accomplished!! It's sitting here in my laptop...waiting for the day I yank it out, dust it off and make it into something fantastic.
What about you??? Where is your first masterpiece?? What inspired you? When did you first know when you wanted to write novels??
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I finished my first novel at 15--55k words, so not too bad. Of course, the writing was awful. (I found a copy of it recently.) But I remember writing it because I was shy girl and was crushing on impossible boy. So when I figured out said relationship wouldn't happen in reality, I wrote my own version of the romance.
ReplyDeleteAfter that life got in the way and I put aside writing (although always scribbling down ideas). Then when I started staying home with my son, I decided, okay you have no excuses--if you want to write--write. So I did.