Imma Gonna Write a Novel, Pa!
"Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out." ~John Gardner I've always said that I want to write a novel...a good one (hopefully). Really, I'd like to have a career writing novels, drinking good coffee, and traveling, but I just can't seem to bring myself to sit down and write it. I've got ideas; loads of them. Yet, somehow every time I sit down to write nothing comes out. Just blah and a blank page...mostly. It's really a disease that I've had for as long as I can remember. Well, I take that back. When I was in elementary and early middle school I would write short horror stories. This was due to the fact that, at the time, I was OBSESSED with R.L. Stine books. Not the Goosebumps series, but the Fear Street ones. The ones meant for an older audience :) Obviously that's not the vein I want to go in now. I'd li...