Sunday, November 13, 2005

Strange what one little object can do to your head.

Just 20 minutes ago I was lying on my bed, bored and frustrated. Upon spacing out after struggling to draw something decent and failing, I grabbed my huge, practically empty notebook and wrote a little. A beginning of a new story...

The inspiration of the idea didn't come from spacing out, but on a drive back home from school on Friday, where I spotted a couple small, simple houses squished together. One of them had some rusty old stairs going up to the door. You know, the kind that has cool swirls designed on them. The old fashioned kind.

So I spotted it for just a moment, and a scene came to my mind. A scene with rain and clouds. A scene with a small girl and a mysterious lost boy. Of course, you find the stairs in their as well. And there blossoms the idea that I should make that into a story. I'll show you what I wrote, although I might end up re-writing it later.

That day, it was raining. The weather man considered it the sign that fall was ending and winter was beginning. The sailors considered it a nuisance. And the townsfolk considered it merely as a bad omen. But I liked to think it was a mix of all three.


Ha-ha, that's all I wrote. But it's a start. Tell me what you think.

P.S. On a side note, go check out my domain quickly. OK, so techincally it hasn't changed, but it features Kadaj, and that makes all the difference, ok?! Seriously, I wanna make a shrine for him~
Typed by Tsuu -- Sammy at 6:35 PM

1 said miss mademoiselle:

Rain-drop said...

That's one thing I really love about writing - you don't have to struggle for ideas (at least not at the beginning of a story) - they just come to you, sometimes suddenly and unexpectedly. And sometimes, the strangest things start a story going in your head.
I like the idea of the little stairway. It sounds quite quaint! I remember a story idea starting once in English class when I noticed this guy's boots...and that started a story in my head. The weirdest things can be ideas. I love it.

I like your little story beginning. It's interesting, intriguing. The first sentence might sound better as "It was raining that day," though.

Glad you are writing more lately...those writing wheels are churning in your brain...*thumbs up*

I think you tend to think of rewriting a tad too much. Instead of immediately thinking of fixing stuff up as soon as you've written it, just let ideas flow out of your pen and don't think about rewriting at all - you need to write like a writer, not like an editor.

I've found that thinking about rewriting during writing slows my writing progress. So I just I'd give that piece of advice...

14 November, 2005 20:34

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