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And of course that means I ought to write a post. Actually it is November fourth already since I have been extremely lazy and haven’t written much lately. On Bethjoy.com that is. I’ve actually written about ten pages of story work on a new story I’m working on. I’m going to attempt writing at some point(I hope). Currently I working on the plot, characters, settings, etc.

This story is going to be nice to write because it’s been in existence in my head for quite some time. It is very seldom that I actually write even the basic idea down for one of the major stories I think on. Mainly I just enjoy them as I ride my bicycle, and this one has definite bicycle influence as racing fast vehicles that distinctly resemble bicycles is a main plot point. The plot takes place in a grand galactic scale that takes the main character many exotic locations. Of course that means I’ll have to think up exotic locations but I’m hoping it won’t be too difficult. The main problem will be disguising where I got my inspiration from…

I’m not exactly certain how some things will be. I could, if I wanted to, make this an extremely funny story but I’m not exactly sure I’m going to do it. I think it will be more of a serious adventure, but if through my writing humor soaks through I probably will leave it. It’s a fairly strait-forward story. The heroine, Drelia, has a mission, or quest, that she must accomplish within a certain amount of time. The whole book follows her and doesn’t go off on any side plots etc. Also, I don’t think it will be a “romantic” book as I think that since I have no personal experience in that respect, I’ll probably write more romantic tales after I have some personal experience. At least, in this story the main character won’t have any romance. Though I won’t say anything about her handsome older brother who just might have a bit of romance since he is only a minor character and it won’t come into the story much except at the end.

One thing I will defiantly have to work on avoiding in my story is run on sentences.

I think the main reasons I’m writing this is 1. I want to be writing something. 2. To work on my writing skills and a story is a way to do this. 3. To see if I can actually write a good adventure/action/interplanetary story. These being my reasons(though I forgot, 4. I’m not doing school right now and this is a way to spend time profitably) I have written much of the key story. I’m changing the plot quite a bit from the original. Especially since the original story is like a giant jigsaw puzzle with lots of beginnings, endings, and middles and tons of stuff in between. This is a story that has been going around in my head for years you see. So I’m only using a small portion of my original ideas. That way, when and if I want to and am able to, I can write the thousand page epic story and include just about everything, including the huge intergalactic war, without it seeming to be the same story that this one came from.

However, I’m not having a war of any sort be in this story as it is going to be a “short story” though I sincerely hope it will exceed more than fifty pages and that is a “long story” for me.

Characters are something I really want to work on as I’m not particularly good at writing them and creating them well. So I’m hoping this story will be a very good learning experience for me and will come out at least decently. I highly doubt with the way it looks at present that my family will enjoy reading it much as it is somewhat serious and not exactly as light and humorous as “Elaine’s Pearls” or even as “The Royal Crowns of Scotland”. I really hope it is much better than “The Royal Crowns of Scotland” as that book is, in my opinion, not very good and has not been widely read by my family. I am slightly proud of “Elaine’s Pearls” though, that book being my first great success in long stories. I wrote TONS of background information and plots and other things that fill text boxes for it.

I think this post is long enough at the moment. I started writing Drelia’s story on November 2 so it will be interesting to see just how long I’ll be actively writing on it. So this post is now over.