So this is my first time blogging. I read
somewhere that blogging helps when you're trying to write, especially if you
hit that dreaded writer's block, which I have. The title for my blog actually
comes from one of the novels I've been working on for almost 20 years now.
Yeah, 20 years! The title is also a Sonny and Cher song as well. I know this
because I have their greatest hits CD and while listening to it in completion
on day I heard it. It was awesome that there was a song with the same title as
a book I had been trying to finish since I was 13 years old. Now every time I
think of the book or work on it I picture my book as though it were a movie
playing with the song in the background. Kind of like you see the shows with
the theme song playing while showing video clips of the town the show takes
place in. I think, wouldn't it be awesome if my book was made into a movie?
Then again, it would be awesome if it was just finished first. I have an
attention problem when it comes to writing. I have so many ideas going on in my
head for different books. A lot of times they come from dreams. So I write down
the plot and a small list of characters and go back to what I was working on. I
haven't counted them but so far I think I have about 20 book ideas and about 10
that I'm actually working on. Its not like I don't have the time, I have all
the time in the world. I'm not working right now so you'd think I would just be
writing and writing but nope, didn't turn out that way. I sit there in front of
the computer and I get stuck. I find writing it out with paper and pen much
easier but then I'm thinking, wait if I write all this out that means I'll have
to type it out eventually. Most books are typed out so it’s easier to send or
if I want to try the self-publishing route like Amanda Hocking did for Kindle.
Typing all that out would be the worst thing I can think of because I know for
a fact that I'll be editing myself as I'm going through the pages I've written
and I'll decide, no I don't want to put that in there or wait it's not long
enough I need to add more in. Then I'll be typing it all out anyway so what's
the point in writing it on paper? Then what happens? I get stuck and irritated
and stop writing altogether and just decide to turn on the television or read a
book on my Kindle app. That's how I decided to start this blog. A book I'm
currently reading talks about how the lead character starts a blog to help her
just gets things out there she may want to talk about and helps with her
writing. So, okay I'll give it a go and see what happens. So, I go to Google
and type in blog and there's Blogger for you and it’s free. Since I Facebook
often I figure, I can network this with Facebook and maybe someone out there in
the world can read my little blog. Or it could just be beneficial for me so
either way hopefully it'll work out. So out there into the world my blog goes
showing that Its The Little Things that keep life interesting enough to write
about.
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