My Novel
I started writing back when I was little and loved it!

I've won prizes for my short stories, and had poetry published all before I was 15. So I decided that the time was right for me to write my novel.

It's a horror story and in the first year or so of writing, I was an absolute machine. I may not have known where the story was going but my god these characters had legs and took the story to all sorts of exciting places. I loved it; friends and family loved it and could never wait for the next instalment.

By the time I was 18, I was writing it on and off, picking it up sometimes and putting it back again, A-Levels kind of got in the way, you know how it goes.

Shortly after A-Levels, Uni arrived to provide me with yet more distraction in the form of education, men, booze and the rest. But I had an old borrowed laptop (until my proper computer arrived) and I decided one sunny afternoon that I needed to get back into The Novel. The best way to do this, I decided was to write the final chapter, the one that I was really excited about writing.

I wrote and wrote and it was awesome! The whole story had come to a close and it was wonderful.

But then, the laptop decided that it didn't want to face the world anymore. It died a coward's death taking the hard drive and all its contents with it. Including my final chapter.

I never wrote another word.

I've picked it up again a couple of times since, sniggering a little at the pretentious writings of my 15 year old self. It’s still a good story, and I still intend to finish it one day and write that last chapter again. But for now, I am faced with my friends doing a Stewie Griffin impression whenever the novel comes into conversation.

"How's your novel coming along, hmm?"
"You got some well rounded characters in there? Hmm?"
etc...

Feel free to join them...

I'm actually going to write a movie next.
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Tue 29 Jun 2010, 13:30, 5 replies)

"next"
hahahahaha
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 14:01, closed)

Harsh but fair

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 15:32, closed)

My story is worse...
I wrote a diary for about 18 months as a teenager -- all saved on my trusty second-hand 286 AT. I even recieved compliments when flatmates of a friend read the copy I had printed.
Unfortunately I became a depressive and destroyed it.
I'm not saying it was the next "Adrian Mole" but it would have made a half-decent blog at least.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 18:11, closed)

True
That said, I kept a livejournal when I was all teenage and depressive. It doesn't make for happy reading. perhaps it would have made a better novel...
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:41, closed)

oh, i know your pain
poetry and short story competitions: check
published as a child/teenager: check
great idea for a book/novel: check
severe lack of ideas/motivation for the last 4 years: check, unfortunately :(
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 21:00, closed)