Not Writing, Per Se, But The Act Of Writing About Writing

Heyo,

They week after tests, is nice. The schedule is still crazy, but the stress is less. I also had a bit of time this weekend to toy with a story idea. I have started quite a few novels, but none like this.

See I have started dramas and cotemporary things, but the one thing my stories all had in common? The hero(ine) was tortured. Oh, maybe not physically, but mentally, just someway to make their bad life worse.

No more. This story, while it still might run a bit deep, is NOT going to have people in tears at the end of it. HOPEFULLY, although I do not take credit for people who are overly emotional, because I do not understand them.

Why am I deciding to do this? Because the world is dark and twisty enough without, yanno, using creative energy to make it worse. I want to make it better. Don't get me wrong, this is NOT a Pollyanna story although that may have been a favorite of mine when I was little, it is realistic. Things aren't perfect, but "bad" side isn't serial killers, it is the sin that hides in all of us. Bad enough to get us to hell, but 'small' enough that we can lie ourselves into oblivion.

My main character also just makes a lot of wise cracks. Not like anyone else I know...

This is also NOT a romance. Because there are other, sometimes even tougher, relationships that don't get enough page time. I like reading romances, it is just that there are sooooooo many out there and that genre also tends to lack plot or any point sometimes.

I guess I want a different genre or a cross-genre, or just something different that I don't see on shelves.What kind of books do you like to read? Hunger Games style, where everyone dies?  Which in a sense is pretty realistic I mean seriously it is coming to us all someday. Romances? Classic or precocious?

And on that uplifting note question...bye.


<3 Lissa