Coming across major set backs on the book. I find myself not liking  certain parts and re writing them.  Honestly I'm loosing motivation . Defiantly need to find more motivation. Maybe I'll get a spark of good ideas to make it better.  Writing a novel is  requires a lot more than just writing essays and short stories. I'm slowly learning that. I'm thinking I'm setting a new goal to have half the book done instead of rushing to make a deadline.

This week I wrote a little over a page in class. I'm working bouncing between different events when I get stuck. I'm also working on describing and introducing minor characters that sort of affect stories. For example chris travers starts a fight with lee at a party. I need to describ chris but not over do it because he's irrelevant other than that certain event.

Writing this novel I'm slowly learning that when writing in the point of view of someone else, a character you created, you really have to analysis who they are, how they act, almost every aspect of them. You have to think like them when you're writing. You have to compare yourself. With the characters that you aren't writing from their view you have to compare them to people you may know or want to know.

This week I wrote two pages in class, nothing to big just some dialogue. I plan on writing alot more this weekend on my own time. I will post again concerning that work.

This weekend I decided to pound out the rest of the first chapter. I've successfully elaborated the context for Lee. His outrageous summer he had, how he feels about school, the school itself, the girls that are relevant in his life, his home life and his current friends tray basinger and David lock, I've even dabbled into Lee's atheist philosophy. Which will become extremely relevant in later conflicts.  So the story is still in the exposition and will stay there indefinitely.

This week reading through, I decided to erase half a page because I felt it was unessasary monologue. I then rewrote the scene so I could set up a different event. So far I'm quite happy with the way this novel is going. Also this post is late but oh well.

Today I wrote the first two pages of the book, and right now I'm trying to set up the setting, characters, and all around the context of the story.

Writing a Novel

My 20 time project is to write and complete a full length novel with the help of English teachers at Brandon High school. The novel is about a 16 year old junior in high school named Lee. A new kid comes to their school named James and him and Lee quickly become friends. Lee and James are both of Korean decent mainly because I'm dedicating this book to a friend of mine, Ben, which is currently in campus. Ben is Korean. Only reason they're Korean. James influences Lee to be "bad". And the novel will consist of Lee and James reckless adventures. I've always wanted to write a full length novel and i figured this 20 time would be the best situation to write it in.