Creatures

Twitter is awesome. Seeing as I now have 104 followers  on Twitter (@TheAmandaKim) I thought I would do something special for everyone. 

 For 104 followers I give you 104 words from Creatures (still not sure on this title name. Will probably be changed in the future)

 (I'm actually giving you 113 words because I couldn't very well cut it off in the middle of a sentence)

 This is a very unedited and unreviewed portion of the very first draft and it's the very first sentences. 
            “The creatures come out at night. Be home by dusk” his mother’s words ran through his head to the tune of his feet slapping against the asphalt, each word matching with each smack of his feet. The sun was low in the sky, barely visible now and he was still miles from the little shack he called home. 
            His mom was long gone, taken by one of the creatures years ago. It was just him in his tiny little shack, his safe haven after his mom was taken. He thought about all he still had to do when he got home and he knew the tension wouldn’t leave him until after The Lockdown.

 Those very first words were the first idea for the book. One day at work they just kept running through my head and when I got home the story started to develop. The first chapter almost felt like I was reading it instead of writing it. 

 There you have it!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Editing

Image
I hate editing! My own stuff that is. Reading through other people's works and fixing small errors here and there is really enjoyable. I love reading a new story, or a revised story and seeing how it plays out. Editing my own stuff though is time consuming and frustrating. I end up taking out whole chapters in the editing process because I can't stand the way they sound. Usually my writing takes place during the month of November for NaNoWriMo. National November Writing Month. So I am trying to follow a rough outline that I created in October and keep up my word count, usually around work, family time, and Thanksgiving of all holidays where my family usually takes a no-WiFi-available vacation. Now, you'd think, writing is just a pen and paper, or a word document. But when you really need to know the name of that one tiny town and the population of that tiny town you use a lot of fillers and have to go back and google everything when you finally get WiFi again. Trying...
Read more

Sixteen Reasons Why

While trying to think of what to write about today the show 13 Reasons Why popped up on the Netflix screen (yes I'm multi tasking) I haven't yet sat down to watch it as I still don't know if I'm going to since I have heard mixed review about it. I'll wait until a few more people have seen it. But since this is my 16th post I thought I would do 16 Reasons Why I Write. 1. Some people use yoga, or running, or meditation to relax and clear their heads. I write. Sitting down after a long day and getting lost in my story helps me stop thinking about all the things I need to get done, it helps me calm down after a particularly anxious day and it relaxes me, almost like reading does. 2. I am an avid reader. If there is a book I want to read and I can't find it anywhere I write it. There are so many good story ideas in my head and I want to put them on paper. 3. I have always been a writer at heart. While I was moving into a new home my mom dug out everything of ...
Read more

Coming Out

I just made a twitter account for this blog to hopefully get it out there. Though looking through other people's twitters and seeing just how many blogs are out there like this one I almost feel like a fraud. While some people may find comfort in the idea of other people going through the same situation, I feel like others may feel pretty tired of all of us up and coming writers and why do I think I am any different? Thoughts like this have kept me from putting my thoughts and works out into the world. But here we go. I am "coming out" if you will, as a hobby writer. I have been brave enough to share my stuff with 2 close friends of mine who have read this blog and one of them suggested I take my blog to twitter. So squashing all my negative thoughts about that idea I did it. It takes a lot to remind myself that my thoughts, my stories, my poems, whatever i deicide to write, is mine, unique to me. They may be similar to other people's works, a mash of stories I hav...
Read more