A Little Revision And A Lot Of Shakespeare

I hate revision. It is so frustrating. I just had to cut about 3,000 words of extremely hard work. I have to rewrite a whole bunch of scenes but I have to admit that the writing part I'm enjoying. It's just really hard to get myself to cut all those words.

Woe is me!

I'm really self-depreciating too. I slashed across a scene with my pen and wrote, "DIRT," over it. I do that kind of thing a lot. I think half my problems with writing come from within. Doubts, fears (a lot of those), frustration. I'm my own worst enemy. I don't think any other person in the world can cut someone down as much as they cut themselves down.

I'm doing pretty good with my fan fiction though. Dance With The Devil is pretty popular, so I know I'm doing something right. I'm making friends through my writing on there. It's really nice to have conversations with people who actually like writing and reading the way I do. My family is fairly supportive but they're also pretty clueless.

I say Shakespeare, they scream no. Is there anyone out there who likes Shakespeare anymore?
I'm reading Hamlet right now and I'm crazy over it. It's fantastic. So touching and emotional. I'm not one for tragedies but this is one of the few I think I'm going to read again. I'm also reading A Midsummer Night's Dream and that one I really love. It's uproariously funny and very romantic. Much Ado About Nothing is another one I adore by the Bard. He's great when you need a little romantic comedy to lift your spirits.

Another great thing about Shakespeare is that his stuff has been used so many times before in other media that  the characters are as familiar to you as your favorite pair of shoes. There's something timeless about them that touches your heart and sweeps you away to another world.

Enough of my gushing though.

~ Jane

Losing The Finger And Working With yWriter

I just lost about half my finger in a terrible kitchen accident involving scalloping potatoes.

Just kidding. I cut the tip off, but I won't bleed to death. Pity, isn't it? It'd make a great story if I did. *wink*

Typing isn't particularly easy but I'll probably still manage to pump out hundreds of words of fan fiction. Be nice if I was that dedicated to my novel.

I haven't done a whole lot of work on Plain Jane lately. I'm working with a new software called yWriter. It's amazing. It's not like any other writing software I've seen out there, and it's FREE. Yeah, people. FREEEEEEE!

I love it. It's unlike anything out there for writers. Take a look: http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html
What's to lose, right? 'Cause it's FREE!

I Have A Dream...

You know how Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream? Well, I have a dream too. Now it's no where near as altruistic as equality amongst our races, but I still think it's pretty cool.

My dream is to have a career in the fiction writing genre.

Which is why this blog is called "My Future Writing Career."

My name is Plain Jane, and the reason I created this blog is to share my agonizing journey to publication with all other aspiring writers out there so that they know:

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!

Holly Lisle is more or less my inspiration for even attempting to have a writing career at all. Before finding her site three years ago, I never thought that I would be able to pursue a career in writing, regardless of how much I loved it.
Holly Lisle is a writer with more that 30 books published and more on the way. I ran across her website http://hollylisle.com, and figured if a single mother with two jobs could do it then why not I?

I'm only 17, but I already have a finished novel under my belt, and I'm working on book number two while revising the first one.

Pray for me, Fellow Writers. Heaven knows that I need it! ;)

~ Plain Jane