A Beginning

I generally use Live Journal (<a href="http://in_excelsis_dea.livejournal.com">in_excelsis_dea</a>), but might as well try this out. 

Today, after a "discussion" with my mother, I decided I was finally going to sit down and write a novel to completion.  Now I just need to decide on a plot, which is how I found this site.

I have so many ideas that I can never just settle down with one.  It's one of my main problems in life, one of the reasons my mother and I argued today, and it's one I'd like to do something about.

There's the age-old "write what you know", but I've tried writing based on Real Life, and...I can't.  I get too uncomfortable.  It almost becomes <i>too</i> personal, which is why I think I tend to read thrillers (which is my dream job- working in forensics), fantasy (because fantasy is just that- fantasy), YA "normal" (because I was anything <i>but</i> a normal teenager) and chick-lit (because it's so unlike my life- but something I'd like it to be, though I know it won't).  

I'm sometimes think I'm too cynical for romance.  When both of my parents have been been married three times each, with six brothers and sisters, with a life that most people tend to say could be the perfect soap opera...well... Do you really expect me to believe in Love-At-First-Sight?  Heck, I shouldn't even believe in LOVE.

And yet...I do.

I don't want a boyfriend at the moment, and I don't know if I'll ever get married.  But something deep inside me does want a happy ending, and I do believe that love exists.  Just...maybe not for everyone?  I tend to dislike your normal, cookie-cutter romance novels.  But ones with a different element, something that makes them special- that's what I like to read.

I also have a habit of rambling, which is now obvious.

I haven't done my words for the day.  I need to start.  Um...that would be wonderful, if I had <i>any clue of what I wanted to write</i>.

I'm leaning towards fantasy.  Hmm...  I once toyed in throwing a character with a visual impairment because, hey, write what you know and all.  But I don't know- it almost seems too Mary-Sue-y.  Which is ridiculous, because 1) I haven't written a Mary Sue since I was fifteen, thank you very much and 2) it's original, which means having an OC that vaguely resembles the author is more commonplace than not.  It is, however, something that you don't read very often. And maybe...I know.

100 words.  It's 2 am.  Got to get them down before I go to bed.

I can do this.

And I'm not posting them here until I learn if there's a privacy/friends-lock thing like there is at LJ, or I actually write something decent.

-Jennie

P.S.  Why won't my HTML work?  *sighs* Something to figure out in the morning...