Post 193 | Writing

So my friend Rebecca is currently in the process of writing a book, and I do not mean to steal her thunder in any way, but it has inspired me to write something of my own. But what should I write? A short story? A book? A novella? A script? I have no idea!

I wrote what should be considered fan fiction basically for Studio 60 many years ago now. It was basically my spin on the entire thing because I honestly did not want to see it die. But what would I write that is my own? I did a short story a while ago that some people seemed to really like, but what now? I should just start brainstorming ideas eh? That would be a good first step, eh? Ideas are a good place to start.

I am never one for coming up with a solid idea and running with it, I like ideas and the like to develop as I am writing or thinking about my writing. I do not like to have a formal outline or anything, I just like going for it and hopefully something good will come out in the end. So, I ask myself the question once again, what to write?

Screenplays and scripts have to be detailed in such a way that is incredibly interesting to me. The setting, the movement of characters, the expressions of characters and such all detailed in this huge script. A book is an entity all on its own. An undertaking that should not be taken so lightly. A novella is something between a book and a short story and sounds like something I could do. I think short stories have a tendency to stretch to novella lengths sometimes.

I can imagine coming up with a short story but developing it so much it becomes much longer and detailed than originally planned. I have done realistic fiction before, taking people and places I know and basically coming up with scenarios that were not all that unlikely.

Writing intrigues me, and is something I really enjoy doing. As you can probably tell I am attempting to write on here every day which is a good step for me on the path to writing more and more in my spare time. Reading and writing. Two things I love doing but reading I am finding harder and harder to get into these days. I think I need to pick up a really good fiction novel to get into it again and give the Steve Jobs biography.

So writing, I think I am going to give it a shot, Microsoft Word is not my favorite tool ever but here's hoping eh? I like writing out by hand and all but I love typing and I find myself getting better and better at it all the time. I used to suck as a typist and only barely managed to pull myself through all those classes but I am much improved with all the papers and such I have been writing for my various classes. Ok, so writing. Here's to it and here's hoping I can come up with some idea. Thanks for reading, tell your friends to come here!