As it stands, dear Bookworms, I am sitting here writing this blog post because of pure laziness and procrastination. This piece is currently on a plain word document with no title, and no fancy font, with no intended word goal and no intended direction in which this blog/article should go. Actually, I am currently typing in a font that rather annoys me quite a bit; Microsoft’s default font (which, if you were wondering, is Calibri), and I am writing this right now for many reasons:
2) I thought that if perhaps I wrote something about my ever-growing struggle to write THE novel (as in, MY OWN personal novel which COULD just possibly be the next bestseller) that perhaps somebody would read it and take pity on me.
3) I got bored and my head got sore from thinking too hard.
Have any of you ever wanted to write a book? Have any of you got your own story to tell, as I do? Then maybe perhaps you can relate to the emotions that I’m feeling right now; the emotions which can only be described as sheer ANXIETY.
Now, I know what you guys are thinking. You’re thinking, “Gosh, Charlotte, lighten up, a book really isn’t all that hard to write. I mean, we all love reading them, and that’s practically effortless!” My answer to you is thus. Yes, novel writing is in some cases an enjoyable experience, most of the time. But I am sure that if you ask anybody that you know who writes for a living (or who aspires to) that it is certainly not all plain sailing. Oh no.
There are so many different things to think about when planning a novel, and as a New Year’s Resolution this year, I have to make myself finally get off my butt and write one in 2014. I have to plan every scene in the book, detail by detail, not leaving anything out. I need to devise a plan on where I want to be by the end of it, and where the story will be. I need to develop good, relatable characters for my (imaginary) readers to eventually fall in love with; and on top of all of that? I need this novel to make sense, whilst telling a really God damn good story.
So to conclude, IWG’s Books Co-Editor, Charlotte Fraser (that’s me!) will be attempting to write a novel in 2014! And a good one, at that!
For all you fellow novelists hoping to do the same this year, I wish you all the best in this new adventure!
Wish me luck!