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A Writer's Journal: Entry VII
I missed these all night writing sessions, and am finally glad to mention that I am finally out of my writer's block. It took me a few months and I guess every writer has to go through that yearly writer's block. Hopefully it doesn't become a trend however. It's been an entire year since I first started working on The Secret House since I broke up with Her. And I've just realized now that the story is my story, meaning I can do what I want with it. And if that means I don't want a character to be a certain way anymore I can make that happen, I don't need a million bad people, or a million good people. Not everyone needs to narrate and some people can just be neutral in their own right. It's a slow process but I'm learning and my boyfriend is being awefully supportive, which is a really big deal because for the longest time he didn't completely understand it. He didn't completely understand how painful a writing process everything was but now that I'm organizing everything and writing everything down, it's coming out alot smoother and making so much more sense.
Sometimes I get too caught up in the moment and forget about the big picture, it's funny because every since I heard this song called "Happily Ever After" By He Is We, I can't stop calling myself the "author of the moment" because of one line in that song. The song cursed me, I swear, ever since falling in love with that song almost every character I make needs a story. I'm like Goo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, I keep making imaginary friends (aka characters) but I don't even know the ones I have. It's obnoxious and I've recently know learning to stop, because there are characters whom I want to have personalities and not just be that one dimension character that you hear about all the time but is never really nothing more than the character's parents. In real life parents are important, we know things about our parents and sometimes we don't, sometimes their secretive and sometimes their problems involve us, sometimes they drag us into their problems. Either way, I like to make the parents of my characters just as important as the characters. Considering that sometimes the parents are what lend certain situations to happen in a story. A divorce between parents can effect a character's life, how are we going know it effects the character's life if we never see their parents arguing, a marriage crumbling and heading for a divorce.
How am I suppose portray some sort of family if I can't build up the relationships between my character and their family members? But not only that, it's things that happens in the parents back stories that effect the kids, especially if it plays a part in my story. Maybe it sounds complicated but I always wanted write a family saga story like V.C. Andrews books, only not so many abusive grandmothers. It's taking alot longer then expected but I'm getting there, I'm find my footing and making my way down the right path.
I'll get there eventually, and it'll work. I just know it will. That's all I have to say for now, but I may edit this later and add more if I can think of more to say.
- Paige Rider
Sometimes I get too caught up in the moment and forget about the big picture, it's funny because every since I heard this song called "Happily Ever After" By He Is We, I can't stop calling myself the "author of the moment" because of one line in that song. The song cursed me, I swear, ever since falling in love with that song almost every character I make needs a story. I'm like Goo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, I keep making imaginary friends (aka characters) but I don't even know the ones I have. It's obnoxious and I've recently know learning to stop, because there are characters whom I want to have personalities and not just be that one dimension character that you hear about all the time but is never really nothing more than the character's parents. In real life parents are important, we know things about our parents and sometimes we don't, sometimes their secretive and sometimes their problems involve us, sometimes they drag us into their problems. Either way, I like to make the parents of my characters just as important as the characters. Considering that sometimes the parents are what lend certain situations to happen in a story. A divorce between parents can effect a character's life, how are we going know it effects the character's life if we never see their parents arguing, a marriage crumbling and heading for a divorce.
How am I suppose portray some sort of family if I can't build up the relationships between my character and their family members? But not only that, it's things that happens in the parents back stories that effect the kids, especially if it plays a part in my story. Maybe it sounds complicated but I always wanted write a family saga story like V.C. Andrews books, only not so many abusive grandmothers. It's taking alot longer then expected but I'm getting there, I'm find my footing and making my way down the right path.
I'll get there eventually, and it'll work. I just know it will. That's all I have to say for now, but I may edit this later and add more if I can think of more to say.
- Paige Rider
Published 27th Jul 2014
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