Special Blog Post: My Book
Well I feel bad about things not coming together yesterday for the update, so I decided to talk a little about this book I mentioned the other day. People seemed interested. Or, at least, they did a great job pretending to be.
I have been penning a novel (ooo, it sounds so formal!) for the past five years. I did not realize it had been five years until I updated the “Copyright JKR” dates from 2002-2005 to 2002-2007. Which might show you WHY it has been in the works for five years. I wrote the opening (which I now find abysmal) in 2002, and then didn’t pick it back up until 2004. That year I wrote another few chapters. Finally, in late 2005, I grew tired of having the story unfinished so I spent 2 hours every single day writing the rest. After months, it was complete. I then shelved it until 2006, when I re-read the whole thing. My goodness it was terrible. Well, not all of it. Just the stuff written before 2005.
Whether the book ever sees the light of publishing day, I do not know. I’d love to keep polishing it up until it was worthy of people reading it. I really love the story, and am actually pretty proud of most of the book. If it is ever published or not depends a lot on me. On if I can manage to edit it. You see, my entire writing career (and when I say career, I mean throughout school) has been one of me waiting until the day before something is due and then writing as fast as I can. By doing this, I can create quite a work of fiction (even if the paper was supposed to be factual, ahem…). It is average, by my standards, but in school it became exceptional. More or less because I have some talent to writing that comes naturally, and put up against a bunch of other average works, it looks very well done. Put up against GOOD works, though, it sinks like a rock. At any rate, I never had time to DO editing. So I never learned how.
I’ve never been good at editing, and obviously never had much time to practice the art. I can see why the first four chapters are terrible, but I have no insight as to how to fix them. The information inside MUST be said, or later events can’t happen. But it is, frankly, boring until you reach chapter 5. What to do? I just don’t know.
The book, though I won’t go into much detail, is the story of a young boy who lives on a small island. Things really get moving, though, when his sister is kidnapped and he sets off to save her. It is a fantasy, taking place in a far off land, and deals quite a bit with the sailing of huge tall-sail ships. That is such a loose description that I feel I can get away with it. I would hate to tell a summary of the story and deprive people of using their own minds and imaginations to find out what happens.
If the book is ever published, you’ll all be the first to know. 
June 30th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Hmmm…I LOVE fantasy books…I’m looking forward to the possibility of it…Although I think I remember you metioning it once before the other day…Like a few months ago…Well good luck!
June 30th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Well, from the sound of it, the first four chapters must be of the boys general life on the island. If you think that the first few chapters are boring, then add an exciting and foreshadowing prolouge. There has to be a reason the villains kidnapped his sister. Maybe they planned it? Was it just a random act in a village raid? I don’t know. Or you could, if you already haven’t, give the boy a troblesome backround. He could be an orphan who has had to raise his sister. Or his parents could be abusive. Give him something the readers can support and sympathsize with. Or, since it is a fantasy, add some non-human characters.
June 30th, 2007 at 1:46 am
So basicly, it’s a Wind Waker knock-off?
J/K, but in reality, it does sound very interesting…
I alwayse enjoyed sailing on ships and being on islands and such…
Which is odd, because I live in the mid-midwest, I’ve never been on an island, and the biggest boat I’ve ever ben on is a john boat with a motor
I especcially like stories about castaways on an island.
Especcially the book “Mysterious Island” by Jules Verne, which is about a group of Union prisoners in a southern POW camp during the Cival War.
The group is composed of an engineer, a journalist, a sailor, a cabin boy, a slave, and a loyal dog who all excape in an air balloon during a terrible maelstrom and wind up on an island in the Pacific. It’s really cool, too, because they use thier inginuity to pretty much completely modernize the island (up to Cival War times, anyway)…
Plus, it has tie-ins to some other books from the time…
It’s a 600 page read, though, so it’s really quite epic!
Plus it gives good instructions and details on how to smelt ores, make traps, and even make nytroglycerin!
It’s a really good book…
*breathes*
June 30th, 2007 at 6:32 am
Thats cool.
June 30th, 2007 at 9:52 am
cabt wait maby
June 30th, 2007 at 9:52 am
cant
June 30th, 2007 at 10:43 am
you don’t have to have 5 boring chapters. Blend them into 2 boring chapters!
June 30th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I wonder what it will be called? :p
June 30th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
yeah
June 30th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
nobody cares
June 30th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
are you trent or akrate?
July 1st, 2007 at 3:53 am
That post IS a book. And what’s this book called? Legend of zelda the wind waker the book? Island of the fantasial dolphins? Oh wait, is it one of thosse books with names that have names with little to nothing to do with the book liiiiike, light dark? Dark light? Of darkness and light? Dragons, swords, goblins, light, and dark?
July 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I looove fantasy books! That’s exciting!
July 1st, 2007 at 11:39 pm
“I wonder what it will be called? :p”
I already have the title. I won’t say what it is, but that part I have down pat.
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 am
Sounds a LOT like Wind Waker. LOL.
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