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I finished my first novel. |
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This happened about six days ago. It was something I started about this time last year, but the idea had been there in previous attempts (and failures) at novels for about seven or eight years.
Essentially I wanted to write about the more interesting dreams I had had and the characters in them. The idea was simple, but by last year the story and its characters had changed significantly. It revolves around lucid dreaming, the main character being stuck in a dream and questioning reality - the things one would expect.
Then the movie Inception came out. I am yet to see it, though I'm not too discouraged. Movies such as Waking Life already existed before this minor dilemma.
Anyway... it feels good to finally write the words "the end" on the last page of anything that has taken this long to finish. I spent the rest of Thursday night wandering around the house restlessly, thinking "what now?" I didn't want to start on the second draft in the same night, but I didn't want to do anything else either. It's a strange feeling. Does anyone else get this?
A friend of mine suggested leaving the first draft for a few weeks before beginning on the second, however I feel determined to finish the second draft as soon as possible. A main reason for this is because all of my first drafts are hand-written in five exercise books... I'm not even joking when I say that I'm frequently afraid that the house or something is going to catch fire and I'll lose them.
I can't think of what else to say. |
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I've decided to start on an idea I've had for a while. It is a story about a person who gives himself six months to live in order to rouse him out of his apathetic lifestyle. The title is literally "I am going to kill myself", because I think it's a bit of an attention-getter, and I do want to write to captivate an audience from beginning to end. Unlike anything else I've ever written, this is a project that will remain on the Den, and only seen by strangers, in the vain hope that I can produce something deep and meaningful.
Some notes on the story: Although fictitious, this story stems from personal experience. The only deaths that I can recall have been from cancer and suicide, and mostly suicide. In the past, I have lost one close friend and one excellent primary school teacher to suicide, as well as a friends mother, and at least two other friends have attempted to kill themselves (that I know of). I am wary of the sheltered and (what I have deemed) unfulfilled lives that what seems like the majority of us are living, therefore my personal method of taking action against such lifestyles is to write about it, regardless of how sloppy and undignified the results may be. |
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Today I had no pressing matters to get me out of bed early, but I still got up. This marks the first time I've done that in as long as I can remember. Go me. |
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.-- W. Feather |
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Character Battle 1-10
Spiderman (Peter Parker)
63% [5 Votes]
Sarah Kerrigan (the Queen of Blades)
38% [3 Votes]
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