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 By Jack Lepiarz Apr. 24, 2006 I have spent the past couple of days desperately racking my brain for an idea for my third novel. The other two remain, and likely will remain unpublished. I went through several ideas while brainstorming for this one, and came up with several idea. More often than not, I would discard these ideas after writing a paragraph of them, or even before I started writing at all. It occurred to me that I had no storyline to go along with my premise. I might have an idea of a college boy getting involved with a drug smuggling ring (NOT autobiographical, I'm even in college yet anyway), but I had no idea of how to write that, how to develop characters, and how to even bring up the concept of it. I discarded that idea roughly nine pages into it. Ah, well. I toyed around with other ideas, and rarely got past six pages. I started to write a sequel to my second novel, and got roughly 20 pages into that until I put it on hold. I didn't want to rush into that before I'd even gotten the first novel published. A sequel to an uunpublished novel seems, well, pretty useless. I tried to get that novel published by sending it out to about 20 agents and received feedback from about 5 of them. One asked to see it and rejected it after I sent to him, saying that it did not fit in with what he was currently representing. Ah, well. So now I think I have another idea. I'm roughly 15 pages into it after about three writing sessions--which is pretty decent by my standards of writing (I try to write about 1,000 words a day, and right now I'm averaging almost double that). The idea didn't come to me in a moment of sudden enlightenment, as these stories rarely do. Although I did have breakthroughs with how I wanted to write it--as I often do--The idea was actually one that I had put aside in my "mental file" about three or four months ago. A rough autobiography of my senior year (which I would pass off as fiction), starting with a particularly strong emotional experience I had last August. The most positive thing about this next novel, I think, is that I have confidence in my finishing it. It hasn't been since my first novel that I felt so certain that I would finish a story. Perhaps it's because I care so much about the character. Maybe it's because the story gets written for me. Who knows. But speaking of which, I'd like to go work on it a little more. ------------ About the author: Jack Lepiarz is a senior at Madison High School. Born in Waco, Texas, he lived with the Big Apple Circus for much of his early childhood, eventually moving to Madison, New Jersey, where he now resides. Although he is often described as stubborn and egotistical, he tries to keep an open-mind towards new ideas and treat people the way he would like to be treated. Email: Jackwuzhere42@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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