It\u2019s 10:30pm, and I just finished composing a near seven-page passage for my book. In an odd sense of moving forward while not moving forward, I was struck by inspiration this evening and composed the second of the three scenes I\u2019d intended to go back and insert into the story rather than continue on the last page where I\u2019d left off. But I\u2019m very pleased with the lengthy passage I wrote tonight. It\u2019s still not the most affecting scene in the story that I\u2019ve written so far, I think, but it\u2019s close, and that proximity alone pleases me. Now, I haven\u2019t re-read what I just wrote, and while every creator is his own worst critic, every writer is also his most biased supporter. So naturally, in the afterglow of creation, I imagine my work as approaching brilliance. Of course, I\u2019m also probably mistaken, just hopefully minimally so. <\/p>\n
\nSince I\u2019m writing predominantly female characters and devoting a lot of time to personal philosophy and motivation, I hope I\u2019m being accurate and natural to the characters. I\u2019m very anxious over my fears that Naomi, at least, will read this draft and tell me, \u201cDamn, John, you don\u2019t get women at all!\u201d However, author Stephenie Meyer is female and has been widely criticized for writing a female character that\u2019s entirely unbelievable, so if I don\u2019t get it right, I\u2019ll take consolation in the fact that even a wildly successful female author of young adult fiction may not compose entirely realistic female characters either. Furthermore, I still don\u2019t know if this book I\u2019m writing is actually \u201cyoung adult\u201d fiction or not, but considering that it\u2019s absolutely not William Gibson yet is set in a futuristic Japan and features magic, robots, superhuman battles, and, well, shouldn\u2019t spoil the surprise by revealing too much, I suppose \u201cyoung adult\u201d may be an appropriate categorization.<\/p>\n
Although I\u2019m not aiming to become a professional novelist, at the very least I do hope that this book is developing as well as I think it is. I just don\u2019t want to churn out crap. (I\u2019m not making a comparison here between my own writing and Twilight<\/em> or any other specific writer\u2019s work.) I\u2019m entirely okay with producing a novel that draws inspiration from the anime and manga that I love, so long as I don\u2019t unconsciously plagiarize anything. I just desperately hope that I\u2019m now about 85 to 90% of the way through the first draft of a book that geeks like me will enjoy and, if I may be so boldly honest, respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s 10:30pm, and I just finished composing a near seven-page passage for my book. In an odd sense of moving forward while not moving forward, I was struck by inspiration this evening and composed the second of the three scenes I\u2019d intended to go back and insert into the story rather than continue on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29742,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29738\/revisions\/29742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}