Hit the Books!
I'M GETTING MORE and more depressed as the days wear on. I spent the other day going through some old writings of mine -- since my brother has finally moved out and left the computer to me -- and I'm not impressed. And when I try to re-write, I feel like I can't move the story anywhere meaningful, even though I know in my mind where it should go. All in all, a very frustraiting and worrysome feeling to have.
I had some ideas come to me while on vacation for an old story of mine I started several years ago called The Echo, about a boy who enters a parallel universe and switches places with his extra-dimensional counterpart. I read it again when I got home and wasn't happy with the quality of the writing. The story's a good one, I know that, but making it flow seamlessly from one page to another was difficult for me, even as I tried to tweak it just last night. I'm afraid I'll have to start from scratch on it, which can be both tiresome and entertaining.
I'm also worried about my introduction to the first section in Order Through Chaos: The Voice of the Bard, where I depict the main character's grandfather being rescued from a Nazi raid on a Ukrainian ghetto in 1944. It's very confusing and sparatic, with lots of dramatic repition. I always liked it because it came directly from freewriting and it holds emotion well, but not as strongly as I'd like without getting too abtract with descriptions.
I suppose I just don't want to have to re-write all these beginnings in a different style, because I've grown attached to the words, even when they don't feel right to me. I'll probably end up taking the stories to friends and getting their opinions. Hopefully, they'll give me somewhere better to go and the stories will get on with themselves. So, I've got some studying to do on writing styles...I think I'll pick up some 19th century writings and see if I can find some sort of pattern to the storytelling.
Time to hit the books!
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