I think it's been about ten days since i've written anything, either on here or on ficly.com. As much as I enjoy posting short stories on ficly's website I can't let go of the nagging idea that I really want to settle on some sort of plan for what my novel is going to be about.
So far none of the goals i've set on here have really worked for me in a way that's satisfying. I have no desire to keep reading Voglers book on The Writers Journey. I don't discount what he says in his book, I think it's full of interesting ideas and was surprisingly much more intelligent than I thought it would be, I just don't feel like it's for me. Not presently anyway.
Also I love writing stuff on ficly, but the minute I turned it into a goal-driven exercise for myself was the minute I lost enthusiasm to keep at it everyday.
Maybe it's impatience, or maybe it's instinct, whichever it is, I can't stop thinking that the only thing that's important for me at the moment is to develop an idea for a story that I actually want to write. So with this in mind i'm going to start on yet another way of approaching this thing.
My plan is to use my favourite novel as a model for a way of developing my own story. My favourite work of fiction is White Noise by Don Delillo. I certainly don't want to write a plagiarised carbon-copy of Mr Delillo's book, but rather i'm going to spend some time using his structure to develop a story for myself. The way he introduces his characters and themes, i'm hoping to extract the essence of his book to use it as a series of building blocks to create my own original work.
Let's see if that gets me anywhere.
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