Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Secret Novel
I have always dabbled in writing since I was a little girl. I have written poems, short stories and I even wrote a small play. I always have little ideas for screenplays, tv pilots, or novels and I'll jot down my ideas and then never really do anything with them. This one idea that I have for a novel just keeps coming up over and over and over again though. It just nags at me constantly and I feel like I've finally come to a point where I'm just going to have to do something about it. I don't want to say much about the presmise because it just seems to intimate right now for me let it any of it go. I want to hold on to the secret a little longer and let it stew. I have jotted down in a notebook some of the key ideas and even large chunks of what will someday become chapters , but its funny because it would be pretty hard for anyone to decipher what I wrote. It is all in wierd Jen code....strange, I know, but I just feel so secretive about the plot right now. I'm not worried about anyone stealing my idea or anything like that, I just don't fell like I'm ready to reveal anything other than what I'm saying in this blog, just yet. There are things I want to say right now about the plot in this blog, but I know I regret it later, so I'm going to savor that fact that I know what it is about and no one else does and just be satisfied that I at leats admitted that there is something in the works. I guess I can say this: I know of certain people in my life that may read it, if it ever materializes into something tangible, and have very strong feelings regarding what I have written. I guess that is the hardest part is just letting go of the fear that you are letting someone into your mind.
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Re: "I know of certain people in my life that may read it...and have very strong feelings...the hardest part is just letting go of the fear that you are letting someone into your mind"
Fears for them?
That they'll see themselves in your characters and be unsettled at the portrayal?
That they'll be shocked (or morally outraged) by what you've written?
Or fear for you? That the inner twists of your brain will be laid out for them to judge? It's no small thing to let yourself flood all over the page.
Those are all legit fears for anyone but a sociopath. But...
You can't go around apologizing for what you think. Not that you ever would.
Yeah, I fear all of the above. But you are right and I needed some reassurance. Thanks.
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