I have spent days and days doing research online. I have found that there are plenty of people that make money by blogging. And each time I learn about one more person who has made something brilliant and gotten paid for it, I rethink my plan to settle by working at my current job forever. The truth is, I want to sleep in. I want to be creative daily and spend time doing what I love.
However, I have also researched enough to realize that these people did not get there over night. In fact, it took them years! It took them years of work every day to get where they wanted and so guess what, its my turn. I am going to be going at this with a plan from now on. This blog will remain the process of me writing with more focus on blogging about the struggles I find while trying to write.
In that light, I must tell you that my journey has changed a bit. I met a friend online that is a published novelist. He has been my friend for years and I just now realized what a treasure trove of knowledge he is! So I picked his brain and he told me to write daily and he told me to make an outline so I could intermingle (Yha, sleepy.) the story lines and know where I'm going.
I have literally been spending so long ignoring the idea of an outline because I would 1) Keep it all memorized and 2) I dislike making them. But the man convinced me and since I'm so obedient (ha) I made myself an outline. In fact, I am currently working on making a spreadsheet for said outline because its elaborate. Each character has their own outline and some things all happen at the same time, others are separated by years.
Anywho, it feels good making this outline. I worked on it for an hour and a half today! I love it! I think the story is brilliant and I'm really enjoying what feels like the privilege of hand placing events that make the story great. From what I can see, it would be an injustice to this particular story to try to cram it all into one book and what it starts out as is not at all what it becomes in the end and I think that is what has me so pumped!
It is said a siren is made to sing, to lure sailors to their deaths with their beautiful songs. They were created for the single purpose of singing their songs. And so it is with me; I feel in my very bones that my life was created to write. My entire being is destined to word dance into peoples hearts and change them with the words on my heart. This is my journey to find my song, my dance, my words.
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