To battle??? Or maybe not

It has been, very plainly, a while since I last posted anything. I would like to give my sincere regrets to this subject, but anyway.

I am now tugging at the idea of putting my characters into a battle. I am fairly certain that one is inevitable for the plot, however I am uncertain if the battle should take part in the first book, of the second. I really have no clue. I have identified one of the nemesis legions to my main character, but the others are still in the making. Or rather the others are still in the researching. I do not plan any rivalries lightly, there has to be some kind of historical, rather it be fact of myth, evidence of the rival before I will commit to having another nemesis.

Furthermore, I am still on the same chapter in my book. I decided to take a step back and research and organize my ideas before writing anymore. I have an abundance of information and ideas, I just need to sort them and find the relevance and the connecting factors.

Until next time, which i promise wont be as long.

Sadness?????

What really defines a good book? And more importantly, what defines a great book?

I recently, as in less than twenty four hours ago finished Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. Who is by the way one of my favorite writers. And I was devastated by the end of the book. I knew before reading it that the probability of it ending in heartbreak was most likely. So why then was I still surprised that it crushed me in the end? And why do we enjoy books that make us feel as if we just ingested Mexican food with extra peppers?

My theory is that the best books are those that access all of our emotions, happiness, joy, loss, sorrow, and the most powerful love. If you think about books that most people know today there are all of these characteristics. Harry Potter for instance is based around the fact that Harry's parents were murdered. But in this happening he is left with the gift of being chosen, if you can say. Twilight, while none of the main characters die in this series, we all travel with Bells through her transformation into immortality and the eventual loss of her humanity. But it is because of this loss that she finds her true place. And even back to works like, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, My Antonia, Romeo and Juliet, Huckleberry Finn, there is always a huge travesty that takes place and eventually forms the characters in the book.

So I wonder if the real reason we enjoy these kind of books is because we relate better to them if the people in the story suffer normal losses or if we enjoy them because they enable us to release all of our emotions?

And in a book like Dear John was it more devastating because John and Savannah lived but could and would never be together while continuing in their lives knowing that while she loved the man she was married to, he would still never be her life's true love?

Dialog Dilemma

So.....I have morphed my thoughts into the opening of my story. Which is great, however I have hit a dead end. Smack, crash, bam, halt, I cannot seem to withdraw anything else from my brain. The writing has been at a standstill for about a week, and so far I have opened my story and introduced my main character. Oh and did I mention that when I tried to write more last week, I ended up describing a bathroom. Don't get me wrong it is a really great bathroom, the tile is exquisite, the furnishings are, WAIT, I am doing it again.

You see the problem I have so abruptly hurled myself into is the fact that dialog between characters completely intimidates me. And that is with out a doubt completely unfathomable for anyone who knows me, not correction for anyone who has ever been near me. I am to say the very least a talker. I love to converse. And it does not really even matter what I blab about. I just enjoy the mere conversation. I am one of those people you think will never shut up. This is a prime example, I was simply attempting to explain my writers block and now I have made a entire entry about how much I talk. But who knows maybe this one sided conversation will help to unblock my dialog drought.

New Years Resolution???

Well hello again. It has been three weeks, or somewhere about, since my last post, so I thought I better check back in. Here I am almost a month later or is I really wanted to be glass half empty, a new year later, I know very cheesy, and I have yet to write anymore more of my imagination on paper.

If I were one to believe in New Years resolutions I would make mine to finish my first piece. However, like a good many people I don't believe in making resolutions on new years so I resolve to not make a resolution and if by chance, and extreme lack of sleep I finish this year that is fantastic. And if i do not, then I will keep on enduring the ever long process of making my own, or what i hope to be, my own literary contribution to the world.

I have moved on from my last entry, I did find that losing the prelude to my work did make my storyline stronger. And hopefully this time someone else will not have already written the plot.

Until next time.