Very recently this thought popped in my head,
"I'm going to write novel!"
Now, this thought has occurred to me ever since I knew books existed. I've even started a few. Hell, I've even finished a few. True they didn't have a beginning or a middle.... Come to think of it, I've also come up with some good middles, I think. Good settings. Good dialogue. Never full book, though.
I have a love/hate relationship with writing. In other words, I'm an ambivalent writer. I got the term from the book "The Forest For The Trees" by Besty Lerner. So far I've only read the first few chapters, but already I'd highly recommend it.
My biggest problem is focus. I'm sure if I had a solid idea about what I *wanted* to write as far as genre goes I'd be able to put my nose to the grindstone and do it. I've been told I should look what I read to figure out what genre of novel I should go for. OK. Let's see... What have I read recently...
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Mitchelle
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
Just about every book written by Stephen King
The Never Ending Story by Michale End
Child of the Jungle by Sabine Kuegler
Phantom by Susan Kay
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
A bunch of books on Library Science, Writing, Non-Profit, and Animal related Careers
Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? by David Feldman
Etc... by Everyone Else
Ok..so we have Travel, Manga, Action, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Non-fiction...anything I'm missing in that? That certainly narrows it down. Granted that's only what I've read in the past couple of months.
So that really isn't helping me. LOL. I have it in mind to write a fantasy Novel, but then what if that becomes a hit and I get labeled as a fantasy writer and then I decide I want to write a crime Novel? or a Horror Novel? Or a romance Novel (Ok..I'm never doing that, actually)? And why do I keep writing Novel with a capital n?
How can I be a bestselling author if I'm afraid of being a best selling author? How is it I can't think of anything to write and yet I'm writing about not being able to write?
