Motivation, Nature, Novel, Screenplay, Writing
Characters vs Settings
I was thinking of how to describe a scene for my latest book. It’s a nature scene set in a different world. I couldn’t get the words to match the area I had in my mind. I wrote and rewrote the narrative a number of times but no matter what I tried I couldn’t get the area to flow properly from the page. After a number of rewrites I grabbed a book from a college history course. The class was about the history and times of the North American Great Plains. It was a class that I loved with an instructor who was very passionate and knowledgeable about the Great Plains.
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Nature, Novel, Screenplay, Writing
Inspirations for Writing
As I started my career as a writer I would often try to force an idea to come to me. I would sit at the computer, staring at the white of the screen, and try to force the idea to come. Whether I needed a plot devise, a new character, or a twist, no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t force the ideas to form.
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Motivations for Writing
When I began writing I started reading a lot of books about the writing process, how to format novels, the hero’s journey, and other aspects of writing. The one thing that all the book pretty much agreed on was the fact that if a person wants to be a writer, they need to write every day. It doesn’t matter what they write; a chapter of a book, a short story, a poem, an article, or a blog post, it’s just that they have to write something every day.
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My Journey Into Writing
I’ve had an interest in writing and storytelling for as long as I can remember. From a very young age I could quickly come up with a story, weaving plot, characters, symbolism, and locations into compelling fantasies that would captivate listeners and leave them wanting more. Sometimes, according to parents and teachers, my storytelling could get slightly out of hand, but it was amazing none the less.
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