Writing is scary. It just feels like such a gargantuan task. How do you start? Where do you start? If you are writing a book do you do an outline first? Or do you just write and hope that at some point it all comes together?
And how much writing a day should you actually be doing if you are serious about it? Should you focus on just one story and stick with? Or should you have three or four stories going and write for the one you feel inspired by that day?
Some days I feel focused and on task. I feel as if no matter how slow my progress is the fact that any progress is being made is good enough. Then other days I feel like I'm wasting my time. That I'm doing a lot of writing about writing and not actually writing anything.
If I do write a book I want my main character to be a girl. A girl who is a strong female character. One that if young female readers are reading about her they feel inspired to be strong and independent. And if there is a love story it will NOT be the main focus. She can have a love interest sure. But I want her to be the driving force of a much bigger story. I don't want young girls to only have books that highlight love triangles and abusive relationships.
That being said I have read Twilight and Fifty Shades. And I enjoyed reading both. I don't think it's bad that those books were written. Those just aren't the books I want to write.
I definitely lean more towards genre fiction rather than realistic fiction.
Okay, so female lead in a genre fiction young adult novel. That's more progress than I had made this morning.
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