FICTION FRIDAYS!

Ive been looking forward to this all week.  Not only because we get a devastatingly delicious double dollop of alliteration, but the whole concept of the blog spanned from this single spark of an idea.

Fridays will be the day that I post the short story I have been working on all week.  This story could be just about anything.  It could be a serial that continues week to week.  It could be stand alone stories of ideas I want to test.  It could be fan-fiction.  It could even be erotica (which, if I am allowed to say so myself, I am quite good at).  This is the meat of my blog, and I hope that the work I do here every week will prepare me for this years NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month.

See, for the last 8 years or so, I have had 3 ideas for novels.  One of them is fleshed out in full.  I know who all the main characters are, what they do, why they do it, where it takes them... everything.  I even have it set up as a trilogy.  The only problem is I am so horribly lazy, writing it all down seems like a lot of work.  Also, writing is most fun when I DONT know whats coming up.

Like in my second novel idea, which is like a side-quel to the first idea, happening at the same time as the trilogy but in a different place. I know who the main characters are, I know the motivations and how I want it to end, but I dont know how they all get to that point.  I had one character I introduced in the first chapter, and she was to be the love interest for the protagonist.  So you must imagine my surprise when *SPOILER ALERT* I killed her at the end of the first chapter.  I totally wasnt planning it, I didnt expect it, I just got into the zone and wrote probably my finest scene.  It was filled with emotion, it was powerful, it gave me goosebumps for crying out loud.  As much as I needed her alive, she served me far better dead.  This is how I prefer to write.  Off the cuff and let the characters be themselves, as opposed to me trying to fit them into something they aren't right for.


Then my final novel is the one that is most interesting to me at the moment.  All its ever really been is an idea, although I have written a rather confusing (and saucy) prologue for it.  It departs from sword and sorcery fantasy to take on a more sci-fi role, which I feel is where any chance of being published would be at currently.  I have spent the last week filling in a lot of gaps, fleshing out my characters, and I am really really excited about sitting down and writing one of the main characters, who I have yet to decide if I love or loathe.  I love the characters in movies who are real jerks, but you somehow find yourself rooting for them.  I have never been able to properly write such a character, as their motivations are really hard to a) determine and b) express correctly.  The closest I have gotten is a character who is likable in the beginning, and begins a decline into assholehood (Sounds like a kinky sex thing... O_o).

So yes, I guess I am really rambling about stuff no-one cares about, but thats ok, because I am positively charged with excitement, which is a very rare feeling for me.

So, to be precise and get to the point...  Fridays I will leave a piece of fiction here.  I havent started thinking about what I will write yet, as I am more focused on the long-term goal of NaNoWriMo.  But I suspect there will be a serial of some type, with the occasional stand alone stories here and there.

I cant stress this enough, I WANT criticism.  Preferably constructive, but whatever you can manage.  Even if its "I like it" or "I dont like it", leave a comment on all my stories.  I know I have a LOT of room to grow in this field, but this is seriously something I would like to make some sort of earnings off one day in the future, so help me out here :-)