9d ago in General discussion
What do you want to say?
That's always a tough question.
What should my first story be about?
Me? My best friend? The Abominable Snowman?
The answer to this question is...(drum roll please)
It doesn't matter. Nope it doesn't matter, why? Nobody is going to read it. Nobody.
I started writing more than 15 years ago and even with some success in this space nobody has ever read my first or second or third...100th story and guess what? THANK GOD!
Because they sucked, they all sucked at the very least they weren't sellable, they were hardly even legible. I wrote poems first on loose leaf printer paper, just my feelings about what I was going through at the time (remember my heart break.)
And at that time that's all I wanted to say, that's all my creative muse was giving me. I was exploring without knowing I was exploring. I wasn't trying to be my idols, I wasn't trying to make my "masterpiece" BUT something was happening, something was forming and transforming me into what I had an inkling to be. AN ARTIST. A WRITER.
My artist self was waking, then a book I read called "A Boy Called It" some time earlier flew into my present existence, and I wrote a scenario down. After that I wrote some more and some more and some more then next thing you knew this lonely kid went off to college against his mother's wishes and became best friends with the starting quarter back of school and found his first love and ya-ta, ya-ta, ya-ta...and bam my first screenplay! It had a beginning, middle and end with twists and turns and by the end of it I wondered how I even did it. (It's called "No More Mr. Nice Guy" if you care, you can listen to it on my podcast Dialogue Heavy)
Folks you have something to say, you have things to contribute. Start small, start ugly, the point is to just start. Think about it and go...Before your rational brain tries to talk you out of it.
What story ideas have you thrown away? Or better yet ones that you wanna tell but are embarrassed that no one will read? Reminder no Plagiarism in this community guys you're too amazing to try take another artist ideas.
I'll leave you with one of mine that I never flushed out.
A bi-sexual college student begins a love affair with his male professor. As he does that his relationship with his new girlfriend starts to weaken. In a last-ditch effort to make their relationship work, she invites him to her family's home for the holidays and as you can probably guess, her father is the Professor he's been sleeping with all along.
I know it's meh, right? It doesn't matter, it's just a start, now you reading this...START WRITING!
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