My Blog?

How successful can a blog about a girl trying to achieve almost impossible dream of writing professionally? Well, let's find out.

First of all, I've been writing since I was thirteen. I have picked up a book or two about fiction writing in my lifetime. They're all good and bad in their own ways, but I'm starting that no one can tell you how to write more and more. One person will read your writing and go "Oh. That's uh... Well okay." Case and point, my father who started reading "The Puppet Master" and though he'd never say anything I knew he didn't like it. On the other hand it got LOTS of good attention. People ask me how I do outlines and I sheepishly have to admit that outlines ruin my writing and make it boring.

But I've been reading Janet Evanovich's How I Write and I actually love it. Of course there are some things that I don't agree with but she gave me some ideas. So now I'm going try and write a story about my fair city:

The Santa Clarita Valley!

The very city I tried to escape from three years ago. Its a miserable hell and I hope the next brush fire wipes it out, but hey, Bella doesn't like Forks. Why can't my characters not like Santa Clarita?

So I went scouting for locations. Its a lot easier to imagine things when you're actually at the place of them happening. I found the place of interest in fact. It's called the Valencia Corporate Center. I went there yesterday and found it was full of medical research buildings. Interesting because it sort of reminded me of "The School" from James Pattersons's Maximum Ride series. I didn't think places like that actually existed.

So after being scared off by a security car I drove away, inspired and upset that I should probably stop goofing off and work on my finals paper. Stupid school gets in the way of everything.