Writing Again.

I started writing a book. Of course, if I had a nickel for every time I said that and never completed what I started, I would be rich. Thus, the reason that I blurt it out in public on my blog. Maybe, just maybe, if I know that other people know that I've started this project I will be more motivated to finish it. I've come very close to finishing a story a couple of times, but something always happens. I always come up with a reason to not finish.

This time, it's do or die. I will finish it if it's the last thing I do. Hopefully it's not the last thing I do though. I would like to get something published before I die. Maybe it will be this story. I think I finally have something I can grasp. I always try to write a story that I'm not very passionate about. This time, however, I'm writing the kind of story that I would like to read. I don't want to write something that I think others would like to read, because then I won't care about it as much. If I care about the story, it will show in my writing and cause others to like it too.

Just to give you a little idea of what I'm going for, it's something of a fairy tale. But it's more on the side of Grimm's than Disney. It has a little bit of Alice in Wonderland, Pan's Labyrinth, Tim Burton type of inspiration. It's going to be odd, but it will also be the type of story that I love. I love fairy tales, but I prefer the way fairy tales were originally told. So, that's the inspiration behind my new story. I'll keep you posted as it develops.