Aspiring Authors, Macaroni Noodles & Fantasy Romance

I have been trying to write a book for a long time. I remember my first attempt at writing a novel, I was probably about 8 or 10 years old. Oddly, that is one of the ones that actually stuck with me. My life is filled with a series of unfinished works, half of which I can’t even remember. Sometimes, I will even find one during a spring cleaning and discover that I don’t remember having written any of it.

Anyway, I don’t remember what I titled my book when I took my first stab at being an aspiring author, but I do know that the bad guys were giant Kraft Mac and Cheese Noodles that teleported from another dimension and kidnapped the main character and took her back to it. Her love interest then spends the rest of the novel trying to rescue her. Or at least that's what would have happened had I actually finished it.

Don’t worry, someday when I am a successful author, I will finish it, and it will be published.

Coming back to what I mentioned above… you know…

about finding old works and having no memory of it. It is a very bizarre phenomenon.

The fact that we can tap into the amount of brain power that even a short moderately detailed plot requires, and use it to create something physical, and then have no recollection of it, is terrifying. (I feel like that is a run-on sentence but I’m leaving it anyway because I can. However please note that I do prefer to use correct grammar, but am too lazy to do the research to refresh on punctuation right now.

If you are offended by this…. You are silly.

I am just being honest with you. Another honest thing I’d like to mention is that I would still appreciate any neutral toned educational feedback about my grammar in the above sentence so that I don’t have to do the work required to research for next time. Thank you in advance for your time)

Anyway, the point I was trying to get to was that I’ve tried to write a lot of books and have failed. I was thinking about why this is, and what makes me feel like this time is different, and I realized three things.

1. I have a routine

2. I have an entire plot developed

3. I believe in myself

Beginning with the least exciting, over the past year I have discovered that I can actually accomplish things if I have a routine with measurable outcomes, and something to keep me accountable. This is why I decided to publish on Kindle Vella. Those weekly deadlines will keep me on track.

Coming up with a plot for a novel is an interesting thing. The only way I have ever started writing anything is because an idea randomly came to me. I have never really sat down and thought to myself…. I am going to write a book now and try to come up with something on the spot. Generally I tend to feel inspired by something and then an idea just comes to me. In my experience, those ideas sometimes come in the form of a specific scene and then I try to develop the story around it. Other times I get an idea for a character, or a setting, or a type of magic, etc…. You get the picture.

Most often it seems to be an idea for an intro. So I'll begin writing and then I fizzle out because I never had a plan, hence the heaps of unfinished books I’ve written. With the Triangle of Exile, for the first time in my life, the idea came to me for the core of a plot, and the rest of the ideas around it continue to come naturally. I have the entire thing written in my head, I just have to get it into words.

It is interesting, because Romance has never been the genre of writing that I ever considered publishing. Fantasy has always been my dream, so I definitely needed to combine them somehow, but the core of the plot is Romance…

Wait no, maybe it is Fantasy….

Or actually… Maybe it is balanced, (just like the Acrillician Weighing tables :-D).

There is a part of me that feels things would be easier if it were a different genre. Writing and sharing it with the public requires a certain level of vulnerability in general. This is heightened even more when developing a romance.

But… The idea was too good. I can’t let it go, and the more I develop it, the more I get lost in the world. The more I have fun!

So, I am going to finish it. I am going to keep building this new little world of mine, and I am going to do it without caring what other people think along the way.

To you… my soon to be fans…. I look forward to taking this journey with you.

Oh yeah…. Did I mention I believe in myself?