Plots and Seams

Happy New Year everyone!! A couple days ago I finished writing the second draft of Dark Fire book 1!! Now I need to finish the first draft of book 2. I have written about 14,000 words out of 35,000.  But I really don't feel like finishing it right now. Writing is hard and I'm lazy! I especially find the middle of the book hard to write because it's not the excitement of starting nor does it contain the conflict and conclusion of the ending. I know stuff needs to happen, but I don't know what! Anyway, here's a few writing quotes for encouragement: When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone...

I have been working on writing the rough draft of my fantasy for many months and there are days when I just hate it. I have written over 21,000 words but I still have more than 8,000 to go! Sometimes I struggle with is how terrible my book feels. It's frustrating to have a great story idea in my mind but then when I go to write it down, it stinks. One thing that I have found very encouraging is how many quotes I have found on Pinterest or blogs that remind me that my first draft doesn't have to be good or even make sense, it just has to be written.   Editing and revising will come later. Right now I just need to write... even if it's terrible.   Well, thanks for listening to my rant about what I have been struggling with recently! Sometime this week, I hope to put up a post of a fun sewing project I will be working on. :) ~CH~

Hey everyone. Today I wanted to share some literary quotes with you... but I couldn't figure out which to use, so I decided to use some opening lines from several stories. Enjoy!     First, let's start with some classics: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." - The Bible. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."  - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."  - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. "The surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance...