Christmas and the writer

I tried to finish my Christmas shopping today.

I am a writer.

Someone suggested I could write stories and give them as gifts for Christmas and even suggested that some people in my family have been expecting something like this from me for some time now. This person said that all it would cost me is time. This person does not understand what storytelling is or what it means to me. If anyone did understand they would know that such an undertaking would take much more than just time. I do not just put time into the creation of a story. It takes much more than that.

Maybe what really bothers me is that I did not think of it myself. I have long desired to share my stories with the world. It did not occur to me to craft stories just for my family.
If I did do this I would not be able to write just one story for everyone. It just would not work. Everyone would get their own story. They would not be long but each one would have to be custom written for the person they would be given to.

But the idea is not my own so I can't do it. Maybe some other year I will remember early enough and I will be able to do something like this for everyone in my family. Not just my parents and my sisters but everyone, my cousins, and aunts and uncles and grandparents and even the ones I barely know and never talk to.

But I can't do it this year. The person who suggested it said all it would cost me is time. That one statement made me feel so alone and hopeless that I barely have the strength to write this now.

Maybe someday I will share my stories with the world and someone out there will be able to grasp what the process of writing and storytelling really means to me. But that is not today.

I love Christmas. I love this time of year. I wish more people understood the real reason behind why I do.

The only way I think I might be able to make any of this make sense is to tell you that I believe in Santa Claus. I don't know if he really lives at the North Pole and has flying reindeer or bends time and space to deliver presents. I have never seen these things.

I believe in Santa Claus the way I believe in Superman. I believe in what they stand for. I believe in the things they are meant to represent.

In closing all I can say is Merry Christmas to all.
I hope none of you are alone.

NaNoWriMo update #4

National Novel Writing Month has come to an end.
I finished A Space Story and now I plan to try to get it published.
Although I may have to come up with a better title.
I need to smooth out the ending some too.

At some point I will get back to working on Ms. October and the Vampire Prince but I will be doing some major reworking of the plot and how the main character Molly October gets introduced to the world of magic and what order and under what circumstances she meets the other characters.

I also got this idea for a werewolf story. I was never big on werewolves but I think I like where this story idea is going.

I will continue to share storys I am working on as well as any future videos I make.

NaNoWriMo update #3

So Part 2 is done. There was some sex. There was drama. Some characters died.

Now Part 3 is in progress. The characters are dealing with what happened in Part 2. They made their way to an alien planet and met their enemy face to face for the first time.

Next they must escape the mind trap.

NaNoWriMo update #2

Okay so it has been a lot longer than the next day it was supposed to be for these updates.

I finished Part 1 of A Space Story.
What happened you ask?
Janessa met the rest of the characters. Everyone learned where the starship Daedlus really came from. Zai, last of the Raath revealed himself and his mission.

I am almost done with Part 2.

I am not sure if I will be finishing Ms. October and the Vampire Prince as it is. I came up with an idea of how to better bring the audience into the world I am creating in that story and it will require a few major plot changes as well as a major alteration to the main title characters. But overall it will keep the concepts it started out with.

NaNoWriMo update #1

I started my NaNo novel today. It takes place on a spaceship. My working title is A Space Story. Feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions for something better.

What happened so far?

Janessa Kepshawn arrives on the starship Daedlus. She remembers a conversation with her friend Tania. She looks at the official starship wardrobe everyone was issued and she meets Junitha Pendragon.

More Tommorow.

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

Okay so National Novel Writing Month has started. I was going to try to have the next part of Ms. October and the Vampire Prince done before but I did not get to it. So there will not be any updates to that in November because I will be working on my NaNoWriMo novel. I may do some updates on that as I go along.

Megan Fox, feminism, nerds and the media video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzDbQKTQro