I actually did it last night! I wrote a whole page just before I accidentally fell asleep! I'm about to read back over it now. I hope it's not total crap, but we will see! An idea I'm getting used to, and that has helped liberate me, is knowing that even if I think it's crap and don't want anyone else to ever read it, it's not a waste of time. Just a way of learning by doing...and how else can you learn?
Though many of you know who I am, I'm going to elaborate just a little bit so you'll have a hint about what kind of stories you might be reading in the future.
My main interest in life is history. I know that will probably bore half the people on here who had that God-awful teacher in middle/high school that bored you to tears or scarred you for life from memorizing names and dates. To tell you the truth, I wasn't overly interested in it until college. That's when it gets fun, because you get past the name and date stage and you just get time frames and context. You can find dates in the book later when you absolutely need a solid number. Names, you still have to memorize...otherwise it would be really hard to know how the story went and keep the characters separated.
So for those of you who hate history, I ask you to try to bear with me. You might learn something fun. I promise, I'm not going to write history textbooks. It's the fun stories I'm interested in telling and from the first (maybe third) person perspective. Hopefully you will find it enjoyable and with any luck inspire you to research on your own. Google and Wikipedia count!
As far as my personality, I'm actually too confused to be able to tell anyone with confidence anymore. I've taken the Myers-Briggs test 3 times in my life and have gotten 3 results. Most recently today. So for right now, I'm an ESTP. About 5 years ago I was an ENTP. Almost 10 years ago I was an ENFP. I don't know about ENFP anymore, but ESTP, and ENTP both sound right, and they both sound creative and fun...which is how I like to think of myself.
What I can tell you is that I'm a procrastinator and so this whole process may be very long and drawn out, but due to mad ESTP skills, I will make it fun!!
P.S. Lots of cool people were suspected ESTP's....TEDDY ROOSEVELT!, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway.....Madonna.....ok, let's pretend she's not one....
YAY! SO proud that you wrote a page! It's so easy to think about writing and talk about writing and write about writing, but actually writing part of a story? LIKE PULLING TEETH, I tell you. So congratulations on your success so far, because even though it may seem small, it's not! (PS - I am an INFP, so, hey! We're almost exact opposites! Haha :))
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I'm not the only one with these issues! I'm hunting down some good blogfests on twitter, but so far most of the prizes are free readings of a manuscript or partial manuscript which, of course, I don't have! I may do some anyway. None are really rocking my boat, though. I still need to check out the rest of the people you suggested on Sunday, too!
ReplyDelete(Too funny about INFP! The E and P are pretty consistent with me, but I just can't seem to figure that middle junk out! Haha. Ridiculous...)