Writing Stuff

People think writing is easy.

Those people have obviously never written before. 

Well, nothing good anyway. Because writing is something that follows you around even when you wanna be left alone. Think about it like this. you started writing a story. Typing time is over, so you close your laptop and open your text books because the day of murder - I mean - exams are arriving. If you manage to focus on studying, kudos to you.

But what normally happens to me, step-by-step-

Step I

My character's are so cool - I can't believe I thought of them. And the plot too, it really did come out of nowhere. I'm so excited to get writing again.

Step II

Huh, I wonder whether anyone else will like my characters. There is nothing really interesting about them. Are they too similar to other characters? What if I stole a character from another book without realising?

Step III

The plot is kinda boring. What even is the plot anyway? I was hoping to write it as I go. Wait, isn't this basically Cinderella? Oh God, I messed up on this one-

Step IV

Spiral

And that manuscript sits untouched in my Google drive for the next few months till one day, there'll be no Internet, so I go through a few old docs and find it. Then I start over again.

Something about me is I like researching stuff for my book. When I say research, I mean I'll start typing, I have a question on the topic I'm writing in. I'll ask Google Aunty. And then I go back to typing. 

I know what I should do is research first, type second - and I HAVE tried that method. 

It didn't work for me.

At all.

Ok, one book I was writing had a singular horse in it. A SINGLE HORSE.

So I thought, "Oh, since this horse is important to the plot I should learn about horses."

So I spent three hours. Learning about fifty different horse breeds. How to take care of horses. What to do when a horse gets sick. How to give BIRTH to a horse. Yeah, I learnt a lot of things I didn't need to. So for a few days, I was a horse guru. I knew everything there was to know about horses. I could name fifty breeds in under three minutes. I was a certified genius.

Until a week later, I forgot all about that manuscript and started a new one. 

And thus, I forgot everything about horses.

This is not the first time it happened. Nor the last. 

I once became a Medieval Guru.

A Guru on Delicate Gems. 

An Explosive Chemicals Guru.

I have retained a bit of information of all that research. Mostly from rereading a lot of my old unfinished manuscripts. Like - 

Did you know?

In most peasant villages, the strongest drink in taverns (what they call pubs in the olde times) was called stingo. It had a fruity, and spicy drink that really messed up your common sense. 

The most precious form of Jade is Imperial Jadeite because of it's maginificent and rich emerald green colour and translucency. 

The first use of Molotov Cocktails (Bottle Bombs) were in the Spanish War (1936-1939)

FROM YOUR WRITING GURU

N.M SIRIUS

SIRIUS OUT!