Confrontation

Moving away from home for the first time is fun and exciting.  Stressful sometimes and scary all the time.  I moved out with two of my sisters and they have made the whole experience so much easier and harder then it would have been along.  Three girls in a single bedroom apartment can get on each others nerves.

"We're out of space we need to put the books on top of the shelf."

"No, I think it looks bad.  We can just stick the notebooks in a box."

"No, I want to be able to find my notebooks."


And so it goes on.  There have been many argument in our little apartment, and there will be more.  We knew it would happen before we moved out.  You can't put three girls in a one bedroom apartment with the same car and same place of work and not expect a lot confrontation.  But instead of splitting us up it has helped us grow closer.  Every time we make up we learn more about each other and how to get along with them.
Arguments aren’t so bad when you end them the right way.  When you end the discussion knowing more about the other person and understanding them better, you did it right.   Last week I asked my older sister for ideas on what to write about in the next post, she came back right away with “arguments”.  I got to thinking about confrontation in life and stories.  In life it forces you to go past the ordinary “hi, how are you” kind of conversations.  An argument shows you a vulnerable part of that person and opens the door for you to get to know them better.  The same thing applies to stories.  That moment of weakness gives you a chance to show the characters fears and motivations.  It gives the different characters an opportunity to get closer and the reader to get closer to the characters.  Arguments can be used as a tool introduce the readers to hidden sides of your characters.  

The Writer Side of Me

                                          

Someone asked me last week what I wrote about on my blog and my answer was "I don't know, random things."  So I figure it is time I start getting some focus, that is part of the reason I am joining the #Mywriting Process Tour.  The other reason is Della from Gut Level Christian invited me and it sounded like fun.  Its really simple,you talk about your writing process and answer these three questions:  

1 What am I working on now?

2 Why do I write what I do?

3 How does my writing process work?

Then list three bloggers who are going to post and share their links.  Finding three people to post after you is probably the hardest part. 

Right now I was working on editing the first Nightin book.  This is really a big deal because in all my five years of writing I have never edited a single one of my books.  I was planing to finish the fourth book this summer and the fifth this November but now I'm just going for the first book rewritten.  The first draft had a drop dead ending.  Where a big airship bursts into flames and crashes, the end.  I talked to an author about those kinds of endings and she advised me to write the book so that it could stand along.  That meant completly rewriting the plot for the first book.  It covers lest time story wise, but as far as I can tell it will be just as long.  So far I'm only on the third seane but I have decided to do 500 words a day for the rest of the month and maybe next mouths if things go well. 

I write for the fun of it.  I've been telling stories sense I was six or seven.  Stories were always a part of living.  If I go too long without writing I start acting strange.  Sometimes I'll be depressed and then the next day I'll be silly and random.  Writing is a challenge that I love and look forward to every time I open a blank page.  I write because I love it and I want to get better.  With each idea I think this is the book, this could be my favorite book.  I keep trying to write a book that I would love to read over again.  

My writing process?  This one is a little harder.  Well first I get an idea for a character or a setting or a plot and play with it.  I'll get to know the character or do some back story on a setting.  Throwing some 'what if''s into a plot is really fun.  When I have a character that I like and think can tell a story I just start writing.  I find out more about the story and characters by writing them.  So far I have not been able to start a story from just a setting which is a disappointment because I have a really cool made up world that has history's and mythology's and the beginnings of several languages but no characters have caught my attention.  Anyway, so I start writing with a plot most likely a character and the story unravels from there.  Unless it is the Nightin story that took me a year to find a plot that fit the characters.  When I am working on a book I generally work on it till it gets done.  I learned how to write from NaNoWriMo so writers block is practically nonexistent.  I can only remember one case of writers block that I had a few years.  It was between books and I could not get a good idea to work on.  Back to the subject though.  I write till its done and then I move on to the next story, some times I'll plot the story first most of the time I just jump into the story.   

Well that's all I think.  This was kind of fun.  Ellie Moore from Jabbering of a few teenage authors (to be) will be posting next.  I am afraid I failed to dig up the other two bloggers to follow my post so if your reading this and want to write one to, just leave a comment and I can put your link up.  You would be doing me a favor.

Thanks for reading and have a blessed week.

Morgan J

P.S.

What do you all think of the new title?  Is it hard to understand or does prudence sound like a name instead of another word for common sense?  I would love to get your opinion on it.