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This is me as the writer.
I write vast amounts of fantasy, and sometime sci-fi if it strikes me to do so. I went through a phase of working on several projects at once. I often bought notebooks and hand wrote them. When I gave that up, I began to write on the computer and I’ve never really gone back to hand-written since. I work on a few projects at a time, not as strenuous as before where I attempted to write at least three or four novels at a time. I look for lots of competitions so I can get my name out there and form connections…or something.
I discovered my passion for writing when I sat down with my brother one bored-out-of-my-mind day and we decided it would be a cool idea to write stories. We’re Asian. We do this all the time! Just kididng. Mine took off while my brother’s sat in a stew of a few hundred words and fermented for thousands of years. My story eventually evolved into two novellas that almost reached novel length. I named it Once Upon a Fantasy. And to tell you the truth? It sucked. It was absolutely terrible! It was such an ugly piece of writing. But that was the start of my love for writing.
Since then, I’ve written a novella using this blog [Or rather, my edublogs one, which I transferred here]. It was titled “It’s Not Safe Here” and involved a large number of my roleplaying characters and old characters from “Once Upon a Fantasy.” It was okay, but I intended it to be a novel, which clearly didn’t work out. But in 2009 I participated in National Novel Writing Month [NaNoWriMo]. I crossed to 50,000 word line in time, deeming myself a winner! It was through this process that Two Sides of a Coin was born, a 52 or so thousand word novel….with a huge hole in the middle. I skipped to the end near the end of November, leaving a gaping hole in the middle of my novel. I set it aside for some time, went back to replan it and left it alone in the cold after I got stuck. Anyways, this was my first official novel-length piece of writing, and it fired me up!
I began my second novel “A Shadow of Hope” in January of 2010 after planning it out and deciding I couldn’t wait until November to write it. At this point, it’s my most successful noveling exploit, but I’m not quite done with it yet. I’m hoping that this will be my debut novel.
In November of 2010 I attempted National Novel Writing Month again, and failed at 28,000 words when I realized that I didn’t know enough about the world I wanted to create, and that I was just way too far behind to be able to make it. So When the Sky is Torn was dropped.
Over a span of time, I’ve picked up and dropped several novel ideas, and I’ve completed dozens of short stories and discovered that I excel in what I like to call clip scenes. These are very short pieces, roughly 500 words or so, that cover a very short period of time or no time at all. They’re very intense, very descriptive, and very condensed and explosive. Description is my forte, as is going on long tangents about my character’s inner though, a habit that I developed while roleplaying. My favorite thing about reading a book is discovering amazing new worlds.
Yeah…if this writing thing fails miserably, my backup plan is to become a photographer, or an artist (though I seriously suck at drawing). Or maybe a computer programmer. That’s what my dad is, so it’ll work…maybe. Or maybe a screenwriter. None of them are a good solid choice though, so I’m still looking. I’m also considering something in biology or psychology, but I also think that I might just go ahead and write. There are other places I can work besides freelancing.
I spend large amount of time writing in my journal these days, and also a lot on this blog. I’m learning how to express my thoughts in a way that makes other people want to read it. So, that’s about it!
