It was late August when I quit my job and moved to Montreal to live with my sweetheart. The season was starting to change from summer to fall so quickly and my life started a new chapter. The biggest challenge was language and after many futile attempts of learning everything at once I decided to take the opportunity to just sit down and write.
Slowly but surely old stories started to take form and writing became a necessity to life. I have often been accused of daydreaming and now I have a reason for it. Nothing escapes my notice and any new idea gets turned into some sort of writing material.
Lately I have succumbed to re-watching anime or dramas that I had previously enjoyed. Of these are "Skip Beat", "Another", "Boys over Flowers", and "Death Note". It was watching these that I decided to try my hand at converting my old ideas into actual stories, and I have so many. I am infamously known as a procrastinator and the very fact that I have managed to keep writing everyday has astounded even me.
Everyday my full time job has become writing. I seek inspiration in
many things whether it be music, reading, or watching films.
I have been training, so to speak, for a marathon of sorts. In November it is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Basically, write a novel consisting of at least 50,000 words from November 1st to November 30th. Here I will get to test abilities as a potential novelist...we will see what happens. So far I have a few ideas to write about but at the same time I feel caught in a web. The ideas just keep pouring through my mind and they are just one grasp away, however, they are tumbling too fast. My key has been to write as many of them down as possible and pick the best one, or the most complete one.
One story keeps returning to me in small spurts. It is this one or I write about zombies which reminds me, The Walking Dead will be starting soon! Perhaps I will be more inspired with zombies as the potential novel for November when I see what Season 4 of The Walking Dead has to offer!!
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