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What I Would Do To Avoid A Mental Breakdown by Janna Herchenroder is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

It sits in the waiting room of your brain

So...when I write, I don't think. I know that may sound awful, but when i have a keyboard or a pen in front of me, it is painful for the page to remain blank. So, phrases of whatever sort come into my mind and flow onto the paper. In a perfect world, I would write all the time. Yes, there are critics everywhere; I just wish they could meet my characters the way that I have, then they would see. Instead, because I am not published and nowhere near published, no one will meet them. No one will know what I see the world coming to...what I see us coming to. I have a story to tell. NO, it is NOT a memoir; who says I have to live something to write it? IMAGINATION PEOPLE.
 My book is becoming my memory. Now that I have written these events - am still writing these events they are part of me. I often mistake what characters have gone through as my own memories, which is confusing. It kind of makes sense though; in many ways I have been through these events with my characters emotionally and have followed their thought processes. Although, what this might have done is to prevent me from physically going through anything. Many would argue that I stay in safety while the characters go and risk their necks.
So...my book. What I am writing is an experience that books have not yet given me; experiences that I would like to have. That is the cool part about writing something yourself. IT CAN BE ABOUT WHATEVER YOU WANT!! Do you know how freeing that is? You now have permission to do whatever  you want (in your head) no laws, rules, annoyed teachers, or otherwise frowning adults, to stop you. Go, and be free :)
That is what I want to do. I want to give my own readers an experience that I believe is worth having. I want them to meet my characters that might shed light on the reader's life. I want to create a completely different world that may not be relatable so that readers can get away from their lives for a little while.
Sigh. Someday....
Thought for the day: try to write a good short story/ writing piece. Write about an experience(s) that you want to have more than anything, and have fun with it!

1 comment:

  1. That's a pretty good idea! I might like to try that but I would need to sit still for that wouldn't I?

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