So today, I decided to tell my very best friend, that I´ve spent the last week or so almost writing only and that I am quite excited about my story. It may not become a novel, maybe it´s only good enough for a short story, but it means a lot to me and I really wanna do this the right way.
So I haven´t got a lot by now. I mean, although I seemed to have worked quite a lot on it, I “only” have the pre-story to my story – so that things are clear – and a lot of characters. And since I want to make them as real for the reader as they are for me, I´m determined to work a lot on them. (I´ll write about characters later)
So, of course, she asked me what the story was about. I told her that I´m not rather sure about the details in the main plot yet so she wanted to know something about my main character.
And suddenly it occurred to me, OMG! What shall I say, so it won´t sound stupid?! I started to tell a little bit and it kind of felt really very personal, do you know what I mean? Like it´s kind of difficult to share the story at an early stage like that, and that I had spent much time in this other fictional world with those fictional characters that are so real to me (don´t wanna sound psycho, lol) and I was so afraid to have them criticized already.
So I really want to know if this is normal, that it´s like really personal stuff to you when you are writing. Because although I have written some kind of short stories already, I never talked about them to anyone and only two were read by teachers, so yeah, you might say I´m new at this telling others. I´m not sure if I really even want to tell anyone that this story is serious for me, and not just a joke or a pastime. I think, I won´t tell anyone about it whom I know in person, except maybe to this friend, but only later, when my story is more mature….
-Katie*
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