I know I said I wouldn't talk about my books, but I'm quickly running out of ideas. I just tried a post about my siblings, but that got really boring. I want to elaborate on Remember Ariel some more because it's easier for me to talk about my books.
Originally I wanted to name it The Code or something more computer-ish and technological sounding, then I found out there was a book and a movie by that name. The sentence remember Ariel is supposed to be used in two ways in the book. "Don't you remember, Ariel?" is one way it might be used. Ariel lost her memory so that's a question she would be faced with occasionally. "Remember Ariel?" is another question, one I already used in the book. In the book a mysterious little girl asks a woman if she remembers Ariel.
When I title a book I like to use the title at least once somewhere in the book. I want it to mean something. In this book when the mysterious little girl asks that question it means everything. It's very important. That's also the part of the book where I got my writers block. I have no idea where I was going with it or why the girl is asking that. I just know it's important.
How Remember Ariel came to be. For months I kept coming up with a few ideas for some books I could write. I wanted to do something with technology, I wanted to give some of my characters an ability or "talent" that we don't have in the real world, I wanted them to wear dresses like in fairy tales and the medieval era. I wanted them to use swords and bow and arrows, but I wanted there to be cities, an oppressed people, a sad love story, a happy love story, and I wanted the main character to lose her memory. Instead of writing separate stories I combined them all into one. Ariel lives on a small farm like many others in the country. She knows little about modern technology, she wears medieval dresses like everyone else she knows, and she's engaged to the man she loves. The people in her land are suppressed and have to pay high taxes. She's taken away by the government that dwells within tall walls and she discovers a modern city within the towering walls. There she's used in an experiment, a computer chip of some kind is implanted near her brain that gives her the ability to control computer stuff and do other cool things like that. But, the operation erases her memory of everything in her life before that, she doesn't even remember her name. Because she doesn't know she's engaged she'll fall in love with someone else. So there you have it. All my book ideas crammed into one book.
There's just a couple problems, pretty big problems, actually. A partial or none existent plot and a mysteries girl asking an important question, but I don't know why it's important. I wrote myself into a deep, deep pit and I can't get out.
Frustrated and tired of trying to think it through I left the book and decided to pick up Darkest Before Dawn. As I mentioned before I hope to pick up Remember Ariel again someday.
Originally I wanted to name it The Code or something more computer-ish and technological sounding, then I found out there was a book and a movie by that name. The sentence remember Ariel is supposed to be used in two ways in the book. "Don't you remember, Ariel?" is one way it might be used. Ariel lost her memory so that's a question she would be faced with occasionally. "Remember Ariel?" is another question, one I already used in the book. In the book a mysterious little girl asks a woman if she remembers Ariel.
When I title a book I like to use the title at least once somewhere in the book. I want it to mean something. In this book when the mysterious little girl asks that question it means everything. It's very important. That's also the part of the book where I got my writers block. I have no idea where I was going with it or why the girl is asking that. I just know it's important.
How Remember Ariel came to be. For months I kept coming up with a few ideas for some books I could write. I wanted to do something with technology, I wanted to give some of my characters an ability or "talent" that we don't have in the real world, I wanted them to wear dresses like in fairy tales and the medieval era. I wanted them to use swords and bow and arrows, but I wanted there to be cities, an oppressed people, a sad love story, a happy love story, and I wanted the main character to lose her memory. Instead of writing separate stories I combined them all into one. Ariel lives on a small farm like many others in the country. She knows little about modern technology, she wears medieval dresses like everyone else she knows, and she's engaged to the man she loves. The people in her land are suppressed and have to pay high taxes. She's taken away by the government that dwells within tall walls and she discovers a modern city within the towering walls. There she's used in an experiment, a computer chip of some kind is implanted near her brain that gives her the ability to control computer stuff and do other cool things like that. But, the operation erases her memory of everything in her life before that, she doesn't even remember her name. Because she doesn't know she's engaged she'll fall in love with someone else. So there you have it. All my book ideas crammed into one book.
There's just a couple problems, pretty big problems, actually. A partial or none existent plot and a mysteries girl asking an important question, but I don't know why it's important. I wrote myself into a deep, deep pit and I can't get out.
Frustrated and tired of trying to think it through I left the book and decided to pick up Darkest Before Dawn. As I mentioned before I hope to pick up Remember Ariel again someday.