What a Novel Idea.

Okay, it's been awhile since I last posted anything substantial but then again nothing exciting or fabulous has happened to warrant writing about. That's usually how my life is. But enough of the dullness that is me. Anyway I figured that before August is finally gone till next year I thought I should at least have something that I posted during this dismal month. (As you can see I don't really like the month of August, even though it means its only one more till my birthday month.)

So I took some blogs that I wrote on MySpace and I am posting them here. The subjects deal with Remembrance (My Book) and go along with how I came up with the idea for the story and how I am using a pen name instead of my own.

The first is as followed:

When always asked what inspired me to come up with the idea of my novel Remembrance and why I chose to write about what I did. All I literally tell people is that it was an idea I pulled right out of my head.

It was actually a dream I had when I came across the idea to write about a young woman who returned home to play town doctor and runs into her high school sweetheart who hurt her badly by what he did. Then I just started playing with the idea, adding the kidnapping of Kathryn and how Zach would save her and they would eventually get back together, putting the past behind them and finally start their future.

After toying with that aspect, I decided that why don't I add some sadness to the mix and actually have Kathryn reliving this memory while going through another change in her life like battling cancer. And that by remembering this moment and a few choice others, she will in fact be helping those who love her, deal with the thought that she may not have any time left. And that they need not grieve for her but remember the happy times they all had together. Or even the bad and how they pulled through stronger then they were before.

I thought it was a great little story to write and started piecing it together. I had originally written it in the first person while having the flashbacks in the third but because of how my story ends (Sorry even I won't give that away. You'll have to read that for yourself.) I realized the first person wasn't going to work out. So while I was typing it on to my computer, (I had actually written the story first with paper and pencil) I changed everything to the third person. All in all, I thought the story line turned out pretty well.

I will let you in on something. Though none of this is based on any true events in my life or anyone else's, there is a bit of realism in it. The playground where Kathryn runs to, to get away from Zach and how it's set up is based on a real place in my hometown of Chandler, Arizona. The setting for that particular scene was inspired by the playground at my elementary school.
So in a way there is a bit of truth in the book even if it's only just a place where I went to school.

So now you know how I came up with the idea. Now if you haven't gone out to buy it. You should. ;)