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No Clue Journal

by JaceCar

Rated: 13+ · Book · Writing · #1951694

Adventures of writing when I don't have a clue, which seems to be most of the time...

My writing journey's journal

I have been an avid MMO game player for many years and a pen and paper gamer for years before that. And I've never been able to write more than a page or so at a time, and that would take me hours to do. Creatively, I have had stories and even novels in my head that I could explain to someone, or even tell them the story audibly, but could never put down on paper.

And I never found out why. Until my wife introduced me to Stephanie Meyer late this spring. I read Twilight, and the rest of the books in rapid sequence... I think I spent less than two weeks on all of them, and then I watched the movies. My wife mentioned that she had never written before, even a short story, and that she completed the entire first novel in three months or so. I read an interview she gave with another author (for the life of me I cannot remember who it was), where she explained her entire writing process.

I said to myself, Self, you can do that. If a housewife, with three kids running around, can do it, then I can too. Except that I had tried, and couldn't write worth a darn. So I tried something new and radical. I ignored everything else, and by everything, I meant everything. And I sat down to write. I cut out everything, except caffeine... No more TV, no movies, no games -- really, I quit playing all of them. I found that now, devoid of all the other distractions, I could write. One of my sons helped me find some background noise (shameless plug incoming: http://rain.simplynoise.com/), and I found I could write even better.

What did I write? I just took a word and turned it into a sentence. And then the sentence into a paragraph. I added a tragedy, and turned it into a murder. And then added a love story. And then a thriller, because the love story caused problems for the murderer. And from there, I had a theme. From the theme came a focus. I just made it up as I went along, telling stories that actually ended up on paper, not just as whimsical thoughts that I would lose by the next day.

I wrote over 100k words in July, and another 75k in August. We're barely into September, and I've already written 46k words (not counting this blog), and I have no plans to stop writing. The sky is the limit... well, actually, I've gone past that in a few places -- to the stars and beyond. There is no limit to what you can do if you just put your mind to it and start, one word at a time.

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Whata SpoonStealer

May 2, 2016 at 8:20pm
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I constantly talk about my brain, mostly in terms of INSERT RANT HERE.

Brains of a feather

Whata SpoonStealer

May 2, 2016 at 8:16pm
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Hey Jace! I remember those SRAs. I read em all, probably some prize or something motivated me ha. Your writing journey is interesting, Meyer huh? I didn't know that about her. Whatever works, for sure.

Created websites eh? Pretty damned proficient with HTML & website design / conversions? I'd think so. Jace of all techie trades

Good blogging. Nice to see ya, Jace!

~Adrie

River

Apr 21, 2016 at 8:53am
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Vamparis sounds intriguing, I intend to read the first two chapters and maybe even review them if I can find the time. Have you seen the time anywhere? It keep slipping away.

I too have learned a lot about writing in the last two years. WDC is a wonderful place.

JaceCar

Apr 15, 2016 at 6:24pm
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Yeah, I know. Go figure.

You guys are rubbing off on me.

Charlie ~

Apr 15, 2016 at 5:46pm
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A list?!

~Minja~

Apr 4, 2016 at 5:57am
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I purchased ebook The First Day of Summer and I'm looking forward to read it of course

. I have two books from WdC members that I'm reading now and when I finish with them I'll get on it and do product review here and on amazon of course. I'm glad to hear you decided to work on yours and can't wait to see what you're up to. I just have some strong feeling that it's going to be best seller because Vamparisi is just awesome

~Minja~

May 17, 2015 at 12:25am
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There are so many people in the world with real life problems and sometimes I feel like I'm not eligible to talk about mine as they are not so big, I feel like they are stupid because most of my friends told me so. I mean, how hard is to deal with such a bad break up after one relationship? It's not something that is not happening so very often. It's necessary just to forget about it and move on to something or someone else. How hard is that?

I'm sorry to hear about bad sides of your private life. If all that happened to me I don't know how I would survive. Luck in this events is that you have a family that loves you, great and once successful kids, wife to hug you when you feel down. I wish I have someone to do the same to me.

Congrats on graduation of your son, and you should cry but cuz of happiness. I hope your life gets better as it goes. It's just not possible to have all bad(s). There will come time for your sunshine as well. I know in my life, too, I'm just impatient person as the clock is ticking. But that's just me, I don't know different.

I love Katy Perry's song 'The One That Got Away',,,in another life-she says....

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*Jenny*

Apr 8, 2015 at 4:53pm
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Well we've all been there! Life gets in the way of wdc lol. I've taken a year away from wdc and that was too long! Congrats on you and your wife's novels nearing completion. Always great to have a goal done or nearly done!

~Minja~

Mar 21, 2015 at 1:02pm
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Well, there's a lot of great news around the site as you may notice. You don't need to be ashamed for your absence as I wasn't here for a long time as well. I don't feel that you left me hanging. As a matter of fact I feel like I left you hanging as I didn't finish reviews for your novel. When I came back in January I thought you wont come back anymore to this site so I was working on my writing a little bit. I realized I love poetry

I'm glad to hear that your and your wife's novels are near to publishing. I bet that's an awesome feeling. I wonder if I will ever get there. I hope really that you'll stay longer here and to finish what you have started. I'll do my best to help if you want. Maybe I wouldn't bother too much with someone else but you're seriously great person and writer!

If you forgot how things in WDC work, like linking, posting, navigating, please let me know and I'll remind you.

Rob G. ~Led by the Master~

Nov 28, 2014 at 10:14am
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Great blog from what I've had a chance to read. You are right about the cut-throat publishers of course. That is the scary side of writing, but we all have to get our feet wet sometime, even if we do seem to lose a body part here or there.

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