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Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Gone with the Wind
The Catcher in the Rye
A Separate Peace
The Kite Runner
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Old Man and the Sea
Lord of the Flies
Moby Dick
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1984
All Quiet on the Western Front
Slaughterhouse Five
The Scarlet Letter
War and Peace
The Color Purple
I'm currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Mood:
peaceful - Music:Motion Sickness - Call the Cops
On June 1st, 2008, I participated in a little contest called the YoungWritersNovelWritingMonths, a playoff on NaNoWriMo. It took place over the course of two months, ending on July 31st. In that time I had written a story called ALMOST PERFECT. I stopped writing at about 49K.
ALMOST PERFECT is in no way publishing material. But it's not something I'm ashamed of either. It's the longest and fastest I had ever written. I was incredibly proud of it. And still am. There's just something about your first real story. It stays in your memory forever and remains special in the writer section of your heart.
I wrote my next story in November for NaNoWriMo. The story was called THE NIGHTS THAT GET TO YOU and for a while, it was the story I wanted to get published. Actually, up until July, it was the story I wanted to get published.
It was about a girl named Max who is just trying to find her place and figure out who she is and what her purpose is. Typical teenager wondering how to live. A boy named Cameron moves to town, showing her different perspectives on life and teaching her how to enjoy it. Cameron dies later in the story and Max has to cope with the loss of her dearest friend.
TNTG2U helped me realize who I am as a person. I think, through Cameron, I learned who I was and who I wanted to be. I was putting myself too much into the story and that was one of the ultimate reasons I chose not to rewrite it and put it behind me. I was also struggling with the story, trying to just add onto it, hoping to make it better. But nothing was working. Add in my inner conflicts and you see my decision to stop writing it.
In between November and now, I believe in February, I attempted a story called ODE TO THE LONELY HEARTED. Did not turn out so well, though I am still in love with the title and the first two chapters. The only ones I wrote. The story was supposed to be written for a contest, but the story itself was just not for me. It was a very short-lived idea.
In July, I began planning a story titled A PIECE OF HEAVEN. It has plenty of potential, as do all new stories. A new beginning, a fresh start, an entirely new concept.
Maybe the third story's the charm. Three is the magic number.
NaNoWriMo isn't until November, but I'm already excited, Just yesterday, I made another new account. I need the pressure of NaNoWriMo to make me write. My new NaNo account is ToxicEnergy. Maybe I'll keep this one for a while.
- Mood:
chipper - Music:Lisa Marie - Artist vs. Poet
