A Very Personal Entry From My Diary.

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

11:08 am

Dear Diary,

Writing a story is no easy task. There are so many things that make a story worth anything. Being a semi-serious writer, I know this.

One key thing is characters. They have to be relatable—make the reader find parts of themselves in one of the characters. It really helps if you base some of your characters off of people you know. You really need to analyze them. Learn just the basics at first—family, friends, childhood, age, and an outline of their personality. Once you finish the story and are on to editing, then you really gotta develope your characters. It’s better if you get in their head—look at their point of view from a major event of a story. You’ll really want the characters to take control of the story.

Next is plot. Imagine the story in your mind. What are some major conversations they’re having? What are they secretly thinking behind everyone’s back? What kind of music do they set as a ringtone when so-and-so calls? What do they do when they’re not defeating a villain? (Ha, these are totally random.) You also gotta think of the message you want to send. What’s a problem you see that you want to subtly point out?

Then there’s a lot of detailing and such that I really don’t feel like getting into.

Also, I have a new favorite song! In The End by Kat DeLuna! It’s totally epic!

Do you know that Aaron is now friends with Tyler? Athene, help me! I really like being friends with Aaron, but it bothers me how he’s such good friends with Tyler. I don’t wanna just quit being Aaron’s friend, but I’m not hanging with someone who thinks it’s “forgivable” for what Tyler did last year.

What do you think I should do?

I’ll never be able to forgive Tyler for what he did, but should I stop being Aaron’s friend because they’re buddies now?

Besides that, I’m tired of hearing Aaron talk about him! This was the year I was supposed to forget about that little B word! And I was doing just fine until Aaron tells me about him like I’m still friends with that son of a bleep.

Ares, I’m getting all worked up over nothing again.

Love,

Alison

11:45 am