Journal # 11

A piece of Fiction – Chelsea Gomes
I have always found it to be easier to write fiction than reality, but I am the kind of person who has a very large imagination. When I am writing fiction it feels like I can go on forever, because it is all in my mind, and I just have to get it all out before I know exactly what sounds good or right and what isn't so good. I tend to have way too many ideas in the beginning, and I find later that I have to take a lot of them out because they really don't make a ton of sense, but more times than not when I have my finished product my fiction writings are way better than anything I had to research to write.

When I have to write a biography, it is really difficult for me, because you have to use someone else's findings, and you have to go off from what they have said. You do not get to use any creativity, and its very difficult for me to not feel like I am plagiarizing their work because I know that what I am saying isn't actually coming from my mind, its from someone else's. That has always been the number one reason I have never been a big fan of reality writing.

While writing the novel for this class, I have been pretty blessed so far. Ever since I started writing it almost feels like I can't stop writing because there are so many different things going through my head its almost impossible to get them all down and remember them. I tend to have a strange life sometimes so some of my life experiences have helped me while I was writing this chapter. Something really funny or scary or just plain weird will happen to me in the middle of the day, and once I get over the fact that it happened, I think “hey this could be good for my novel” and that is why this has been so extremely easy for me so far. I will be really happy if I can get this whole thing done without ever having writers block, but I never truly know what my day will bring, when I get that I usually just end up putting it off and going back to it later.

I have found though while reading my work over, that I have been too many insignificant facts into my writing that really wouldn't be there in a real novel. I think it might be because I am not starting from the beginning of my novel and I feel like if the reader hasn't read the rest of my story they might not understand very much about my characters or what they are really feeling. I am really enjoying writing this novel, but I have been really bad with deadlines in my experiences with writing. I am the kind of person that starts off and writes so much, but nearing the end of my deadline, I start to panic and I find that it is a lot more difficult for me to write. I really do hope I can get this chapter in on time, because I would love for someone to let me know what they think, but I am starting to stress out a lot, considering the amount of homework I have been getting lately, and the fact that I have no peace and quite at my house to do it.

All in all, I've really liked writing this chapter so far, and I hope it continues that way. I have always felt passionate about writing teen fiction, because it is the kind of things that I read. Since the books I have read have helped me though so many different things, I'm sure that if I finished this book, some girl some day would be like “wow, I have gone through this exactly” and I might just be able to help her out a little bit.