Eeyore's Blog

How many of you out there like writing fantasy? I love it, and I do pretty well at it -especially when I can focus on one of my many stories. The accountability I have in our writing group is also great. Plus, it helps me get more done on two stories at once. I fill up my quota on one story for the writing group, and then I work as much as I want to on another series that I'm creating.

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You might ask how long I've been writing. That's actually a somewhat tricky question. I've always been doing short, one- or two-page stories. Then I advanced to starting to write a book which I labeled 'The Four'. It was about four girls with magical powers. They were five and in college. Yeah, I was nine at the time. That story is long gone. I never finished it.

Then came ideas for stories left and right. So far I've only finished one -it was about twenty pages longhand. I threw it out because I really didn't like it. It was about then that I started a story about a girl named Doretta. I abandoned it after a little while to work on a story about a girl who had nineteen siblings. I got the farthest I had ever achieved in any story up to that point, and then I lost all inspiration for it and passed it along to my sister. I think she's forgotten about it.

Then the story about Doretta started to advance. I was getting pretty far in it and was actually starting to create something. Then I looked at it from a new perspective, by a girl named Birte. I've been hopping around perspectives since then, but I haven't given up on it yet. About that time I started another story (these are the main ones; I have several others lying around) about Ysabel, a girl disowned by her father.

I think I'll leave you there and come back tomorrow 'cause I've got some work to do!