In my ongoing process of writing Posies and Paper Trails, I've decided to make a third- to first-person transition. As I have mentioned in my previous post, I'd began to doubt my choice for the third-person narrative after taking a short break from writing. For some reason, it felt wrong to let a narrator, who wasn't a character of any kind within the story,...
Fantasizing about a story is all fun and games, until the moment comes to put my ideas on paper. Once I open a Word document and face the blank page, I get scared. I feel a certain pressure to come up with the perfect first sentence, paragraph, scene, and chapter. It's almost like I'm afraid that once it's written, it's no longer subject...
Coming up with an idea for a story has never been hard for me. It was growing that seed into a full novel that has been the problem. I've never completed a novel, and while I used to blame it on my perfectionist fear of failure, I now know the problem lies in not being able to transform an idea into a story...
As a lover of stories in all forms, I have created an account of imaginary people and events from an early age. I played pretend with friends and family, dreamed about scenarios that wouldn't happen in a million years, and wrote fanfiction that shouldn't have seen the light of day. Though I'm too old to play pretend and no longer interested in writing...
