I couldn't let a little writers block stop me. As I've mentioned, this is not the first time that I have made a legitimate effort to finish a work of fiction, however I have never approached the task with an outline before, so my prospects of actually finishing the project seem much improved. Of course, I had an outline, so I knew what happened next however the ideas stopped flowing naturally, and things began to feel a bit forced. My next dilemma presented itself a couple of pages in, when the scene in my head ended abruptly. Was there a narrator? Would I write in the first person, and if so, who was telling the story? Or was I going to write in the third person, and was it an omniscient third person, or limited? So many choices and this was before I had even begun any actual writing! Very wrong.īefore the first word even hit the keypad, I realized that I had no idea what point of view I was going to write in. I can already write well, now all I have to do it write this down, right? Wrong. A scene immediately popped into my head, complete with a setting and dialog. Once I knew the plot of my story, and had a basic outline consisting of a beginning, middle, and end, along with detailed scene summaries, and ideas, I began the actual writing. That has always been my undoing in the past, and the story quickly falls apart when I try to write without one. A book, however, is a very different type of document than a letter, a blog post, or a term paper and a few things became apparent to me very quickly.įrom the beginning of this venture, it was clear to me that I must compose some sort of outline. Yes, I can write pages upon pages of text, and I enjoy writing, which is why I recently decided to write a book, again (See A Fraction of Fiction). And, as an adult I frequently find myself revising, and revising, and revising e-mails and business letters in an effort to make them less imposing. As a student, I never had any trouble meeting length requirements when writing papers or essays. As a child, I could fill both sides of the paper effortlessly when writing a note. Oh Alice, please, PLEASE come back to reality for a while! I miss you, and I don't want to help you "ice" junkies at a zoo while drinking lattes! I'm not a Farmville hater however, I truly believe that Alice has moved to Farmville, wherever that is, and has joined the mob, all while running a successful café in Café World, and tending to a plethora of zoo animals. "Alice is giving away spring eggs in Farmville!" "Alice just iced Fred, bringing her total body count to 114!" I log in almost daily, posting a brief tidbit about my own day, and hoping to find out what Alice has been up to yet, instead of hearing the details of her bad day at work, or her daughters first dentist appointment, I am greeted with: Shortly after I joined and "friended" Alice, I discovered that she has a problem. You can actually live a virtual life on Facebook, and my friend Alice is doing just that. I've only recently discovered the phenomenon that is Facebook however, little did I realize that Facebook is not simply a place to connect with friends and family. Normally, if my dear friend Alice had found a desperate junkie, I would call 911 however, I have come to realize that Alice is a desperate junkie. So, I log into my "real" Facebook account, and the first thing I read is:
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