The Power of Words

I've been thinking a lot lately about words. I've been writing a lot - blog posts, journal entries, fiction stories; but I realize that none of that could be possible without words. Words have great power in all aspects of life - both the written word and the spoken word. When you write down words on paper, in the form of a fiction story, you are simply trying to explain the feelings and emotions that you have for your story right then and there. And you are also trying to progress the story in as few words as possible. Words are powerful things. They help us through life; if we couldn't talk and converse with each other, I'm thinking that the world would be a very hard place to live it. Nobody would ever know what the other wanted, or if help was needed. Or even appreciated.

Also, in writing, I've found that there's not only the problem of getting the right words out. There's also the struggle of finding a format for them that gives them the correct "tone". You know, the way that they would be spoken if it was real life, or even a movie. I know that when I write stuff, and people read a line with the wrong tone, it kind of frustrates me. Mostly because I know that I worked so hard to portray the emotions. That's another thing. Emotions. That is actually what the tone of a piece of work is. Depending on how you're feeling that day, you'll speak differently than you would when you're feeling something else. When I'm reading a book; out loud especially, I try to think of how that character would be feeling at that time, and then change my voice accordingly.

I'm not really sure if it makes that big of a difference to others, but, in my opinion, it helps me, because I know that I'm letting the emotion of the author show through. I'm encouraging the writer of the story, even though they will probably never know if I do so. I think that it has something to do with being an author myself, and knowing how it feels when your book is wrongly read. I don't know. If you're an author, you probably know what I mean. So, anyways, until we meet again, go write something!!

Addicted to Reading

I've been thinking lately about a couple of things, and I've discovered that reading, when you do it often enough, and you get into a certain book, it's almost a compulsive obsession. It's kind of a strange compulsion to have at first, but, when you get used to it, it's actually pretty fun to play around with. I'm on a goal to write a million words by October (since I started my year in November of last year), and, also, to read 100 books this year. I've actually only started on my first book (The Hobbit), but I've also figured out a few more that I'm hoping to read. For example, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (since The Hobbit is the prologue to that), the whole Narnia series, and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. I've been wanting to read the latter for a while, and it was sort of MIA when it was actually Christmas season. It is a hilarious book, and I would highly recommend it.

So, getting back to the actual update of my actual writing process, I've been doing fairly good, I think - I wrote part of another chapter on Double Trouble, and, even though it's going pretty slowly, I'm thinking that it is going to be a fun book to write once it's fully outlined. I think that also may be part of my problem. Not all of my book is outlined - actually not much of it at all was; probably only a chapter; when I actually started to write it, just because I was so eager to. I know that I probably shouldn't have, and it probably wasn't the smartest idea in the world, but I'm still going to go with it - you know what I mean? Sometimes, you just know that something's a good idea, even when it might not seem like it at the time. Take this example for instance; if I hadn't started writing it, I wouldn't be able to get my 3k words a day for my Milwordy. And, even though it is going very slowly, it gives me words.

I think that the main idea of Milwordy is actually a really neat one and actually pretty encouraging. You see, there is this famous writing quote that says that that 'the first million words are practice." Might as well get them over with as soon as possible. :P. I don't know why, but that's the way that my mind just happens to work. I start to relate things to others, and then I want to look at things about that subject. That's why I love the whole idea of Wikidpad. I don't think that I've talked about that yet, but, quite frankly, I highly recommend it. It's a free program that you download and put on your desktop - it's almost like Wikipedia, only simplified greatly. Basically you just make your own wiki. I've been putting all of my writing information (book names, characters, locations, systems of magic, etc.) in it. So yeah. Well, anyways, until next time, go write something!!