Write What You Know
Apr. 20th, 2007 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotThe universal advice to budding author wanna-be's. So what DO I know...that's worth writing? That's the problem.
Chillin' Out was based on where I was ten years ago, and for some reason I don't want to resolve it. When I try to move on, though, I find myself approaching much the same general premise. The happenstance of Boy-Meets-Girl is actually a contrivance of Girl, who knows everything about Boy but Boy goes along for the ride because he likes Girl. Add a good dose of Weird for flavor and color, plus measures of sex and rock-n-roll, perhaps a hint of violence or a good chase scene, and you get...nowhere, roughly 400 pages worth.
What's my problem? I can't blame Writer's Block...this is far more fundamental.
FP
Chillin' Out was based on where I was ten years ago, and for some reason I don't want to resolve it. When I try to move on, though, I find myself approaching much the same general premise. The happenstance of Boy-Meets-Girl is actually a contrivance of Girl, who knows everything about Boy but Boy goes along for the ride because he likes Girl. Add a good dose of Weird for flavor and color, plus measures of sex and rock-n-roll, perhaps a hint of violence or a good chase scene, and you get...nowhere, roughly 400 pages worth.
What's my problem? I can't blame Writer's Block...this is far more fundamental.
FP
