Hello. I am Mandi.
Writing is not now, nor has it ever been a new idea to me. I was writing a journal when I was five, even if I couldn't spell anything, or hold a thought long enough to complete it. I don't remember when I started writing fiction, probably some time around my ninth year.
The only writing that has ever been published is some poems in the silly poetry.com anthologies in the hopes that I would have reference points to point at and go "look, I've been published." I've been writing stories longer than poetry, but never have finished anything satisfactorily. I have concentration issues when it comes to a long haul, most likely because I never thought on something long enough to give it enough texture to be a pleasure to chew on.
Now, though, I'm in a fairly stable environment and have decided that I will, in fact, write at least one novel that I've been wanting to. At the moment I've got pages of background and information, but no solid name for my main male character because he keeps wanting to be called Richard. I refuse to name him that because it's the name of a main character in a series I'm reading right now. It goes against my grain to outright copy something from someone else, even if it's just a name. My biggest problem is that I love reading and when I read a good idea I go "Hey, I wonder how I can use that." I have to be careful that my point of view and adaptation and truely mine, and not just masked to look like something else simply because I want to use that idea. It irks my very soul that original ideas are so hard to come by.
Some more technical information is that I'm 18, 19 this summer. Just got my GED because I hated school (the people, mainly, not the work). I'm planning to get certified as a Medical Coder so I can pay my way through college where I want to double major in Journalism and Library Science. The journalism might change to a different type of writing, but journalism seems a more likely way to earn money by writing than by depending on my untried "skills" as a published novelist.
Now that I've rambled enough, I'll end this. I'm here, other than my supposed future novel, to simply gain some writing friends - I've never had any of those.
- Kithling
Writing is not now, nor has it ever been a new idea to me. I was writing a journal when I was five, even if I couldn't spell anything, or hold a thought long enough to complete it. I don't remember when I started writing fiction, probably some time around my ninth year.
The only writing that has ever been published is some poems in the silly poetry.com anthologies in the hopes that I would have reference points to point at and go "look, I've been published." I've been writing stories longer than poetry, but never have finished anything satisfactorily. I have concentration issues when it comes to a long haul, most likely because I never thought on something long enough to give it enough texture to be a pleasure to chew on.
Now, though, I'm in a fairly stable environment and have decided that I will, in fact, write at least one novel that I've been wanting to. At the moment I've got pages of background and information, but no solid name for my main male character because he keeps wanting to be called Richard. I refuse to name him that because it's the name of a main character in a series I'm reading right now. It goes against my grain to outright copy something from someone else, even if it's just a name. My biggest problem is that I love reading and when I read a good idea I go "Hey, I wonder how I can use that." I have to be careful that my point of view and adaptation and truely mine, and not just masked to look like something else simply because I want to use that idea. It irks my very soul that original ideas are so hard to come by.
Some more technical information is that I'm 18, 19 this summer. Just got my GED because I hated school (the people, mainly, not the work). I'm planning to get certified as a Medical Coder so I can pay my way through college where I want to double major in Journalism and Library Science. The journalism might change to a different type of writing, but journalism seems a more likely way to earn money by writing than by depending on my untried "skills" as a published novelist.
Now that I've rambled enough, I'll end this. I'm here, other than my supposed future novel, to simply gain some writing friends - I've never had any of those.
- Kithling
