I've always been fascinated by writers of fiction. The characters they dream up. The plots they weave. The worlds in which their characters reside. so I decided to give it a try as well. As soon as i penned down a rough draft, I knew this wasn't my thing. ;'(
I got the first inkling of failure when I made the mistake of naming the main character, after my brother. But the character i had in mind, was everything my brother was not. Not to mention, my brother was bent on being a major pain in the backside, those days. That pretty much killed my enthusiasm of writing a book, especially one about him. Hey, I'm not Newton. Gravity hits him on the head with an apple, and the guy starts proving it exists. -_-
After a few weeks of plot-making and scene setting, I read Eragon. I'm no critic, but next to Paolini's plot, mine seemed like the product of an earthworm's imagination. A very, very, unimaginative earthworm. Paolini staged whole battles, whereas the best gunfight I came up with ends when my brother farts on a naked flame, setting fire to a room full of "bad guys". Paolini's protagonist, Eragon, kills the Shade Durza- a power hungry sorcerer, possessed by spirits he unsuccessfully tries to enslave- by stabbing him in the heart. My protagonist puts an end to his nemesis, by falling onto him from a two-storey drop. Who needs weapons? =S
That's when i realized, there was never gonna be a shelf, with a book written by Nadal Hadi, on it. =P
I got the first inkling of failure when I made the mistake of naming the main character, after my brother. But the character i had in mind, was everything my brother was not. Not to mention, my brother was bent on being a major pain in the backside, those days. That pretty much killed my enthusiasm of writing a book, especially one about him. Hey, I'm not Newton. Gravity hits him on the head with an apple, and the guy starts proving it exists. -_-
After a few weeks of plot-making and scene setting, I read Eragon. I'm no critic, but next to Paolini's plot, mine seemed like the product of an earthworm's imagination. A very, very, unimaginative earthworm. Paolini staged whole battles, whereas the best gunfight I came up with ends when my brother farts on a naked flame, setting fire to a room full of "bad guys". Paolini's protagonist, Eragon, kills the Shade Durza- a power hungry sorcerer, possessed by spirits he unsuccessfully tries to enslave- by stabbing him in the heart. My protagonist puts an end to his nemesis, by falling onto him from a two-storey drop. Who needs weapons? =S
That's when i realized, there was never gonna be a shelf, with a book written by Nadal Hadi, on it. =P
this is the most interesting piece of writing i have come acorss in a long time, bravo!
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