Done to Death
I think my obsession with originality has finally become a problem. Well finally a problem for me at least, which lets be honest all that matters. Ideas for my novel series The Ashes have been in the making since I started down this bumpy artist road, but they have morphed and changed so much that a year or so ago I probably wouldn’t even recognize my own story. My problem seems to lie in that I want something completely original. Something drop your jaw, start a fanpage, call a friend to read it a second/third/hundredth time original.
And before you think I’ve completely lost my mind, I do realize just how near impossible this is. I do know I’m grasping at straws and looking for the holy grail of romances. As I’ve been told countless times before all story ideas have been done before, but I can’t seem to get the little perfectionist that is my writer’s soul to take this to heart. This couldn’t be more true than in paranormal romance.
Boy can I pick a genre. I honestly feel bad for anyone who has a fabulous vampire or werewolf idea because it’ll probably get lumped in with the rest of the mediocrity that’s being released to cash in on the “fad”.
So I guess my dream book would be:
Fascinating, fresh, and addicting
Not immediately compared to the rage of the moment
Filled with characters that leap off the page and into hearts
Taking place in a paranormal world that writers would squeal/weep over (either is acceptable) and readers would dream about.
Ya know the usual. ::rolls eyes::
It is quite difficult to find anything that is completely, sparkling, brand new. There is so much out there now that some things seem like they are just going to overlap. Granted, there is a lot of junk out there due to this, but there’s also a lot of interesting things too. I love reading, and have probably read at least a thousand or more books in my life time, and some of it gets a bit jumbled up in my head, some ideas are so similar to others.
Good luck with the paranormal romance. I’m working on a vampire romance right now, and am not sure how that is really turning out myself. I love the stuff, but am not sure if I’m actually all tht good at writing it.
You’re preaching to the choir lol. Unfortunately the lack of sparkly brand new things does nothing but convince my muse that I can do it “if I really wanted”. Yeah it’s scary up there in my mind. I can’t wait to check out your vampire romance. And don’t worry! Writing, like any art, takes time and practice. I’m sure that if you pour your heart into it that it’ll have no choice but to show on the page.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I’ve been at this for a while, and have only had one short story published. It gave me a lot of confidence, since it was published in a greatest hits magazine, but I’ve been unable to get a publisher to look at anything since, so I’ve sort of slowed down and am trying harder to make the stuff good.