This is my first entry into my weekly writing journal and although this
may not be of the best quality, hopefully I will get better over time. This
week, the week of half term, I have found it quite difficult to find any
writing inspiration. I did, however, write a short piece that I had been pondering
over for a while. This is on my blog now, and was just a random idea that I
thought of late at night. It was exploring the idea that a character in a story
could be different to the usual; they are not oblivious to the fact that
someone is reading about them and following their journey. But when attempting
to actually write this, I came across some difficulties. Firstly, it would be
very hard for the character to convincingly act as if they knew that the reader
was there because every reader would be different, meaning the character could
not point out individual things about the reader. For example, they could not
infer the reader’s gender, because as the author you don’t know that. This made
for a challenge when putting my thoughts into words; I had to be quite vague
when writing about the character noticing qualities about the reader.
Although I have not written any other full pieces, I have a few
sentences that I have written. This is something that I tend to do; have a
sentence that I am proud of but cannot thing of context to include it in. This
leads to a ‘note’ on my Ipad that is full of random, unrelated sentences. I try
to find a way to include them into a story, or even into a paragraph, but this
is not always an easy task.
I also thought that a nice way to maybe end these entries would be to
include a quote that I have either found over the week, or previously known.
This is both for those reading this, and also for myself. So that I can look
back over these and see what inspired me or connected to me that week. Here is
my quote for this week:
“I’m always finding humans at
their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the
same thing can be both.” –The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
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