Re-ignition
Today, despite being tired, sore and mildly miserable I have a remarkable spark of creativity and a re-ignited ambition to write. I have been reading up on some of my favorite authors (how they got their start, the lives they lived, their personal struggles with becoming writers) and I feel that I owe it to myself to try harder to achieve this dream of being published. I know there are plenty of markets out there for the type of literature I plan on producing so now there is nothing left but to get started. At the very least I should get a first manuscript going.
The only real problem I face lies in which direction I will choose to go. I have several good ideas and a couple great ones but each lies in a different genre. In some cases I feel that I could meld a couple of ideas into one, but I fear that with this being my first attempt at a manuscript it may all get confused too easily. The genres (or sub-genres) that I am interested in are creative non-fiction (likely an autobiography of sorts), a coming of age fiction, a spy/ thriller fiction, a western, and an apocalyptic/ sci-fiction. I have a couple good plots written down for each (I keep a journal of ideas, phrases, thoughts and sometimes paragraphs or conversations between characters for later use) but I am unsure of which direction to go in first. I am thinking I may just start doing outlines and see which one results in a more complete sounding story.
The bottom line is that I am tired of putting it off or not devoting the necessary amount of time and effort to this. I want to do it so it is time to get it done. Who knows, maybe something good will come of it.
