Editing

Hey everyone,

Today i had my exam and it was very difficult so i think i need to do a resit at the end of the term for that one, it was about Grammar. Anyway after my exam i went to the library and i sat down and opened my document and i was ready with starting again. I read what i had writing the day before and suddenly this thought came up and it said. 'This is so boring, your beginning is not exciting and it doesn't says i want to know more!'

So i started editing and editing and then i just clicked enter and then i started a whole new beginning and then i got distracted because people were walking by and i couldn't get into the quiet space for one person because it was really full so i was like this is really annoying. Editing is something that you can't do in a story because then you keep editing and i see it by myself that i kept editing the story and it is a waste of my precious time.

So from now on i'm going to stop editing because i reread it and think it is boring or i can do better than this because it will make me crazy. That is one of the deals that i made for myself. If i have doubts about a piece of work, i will write the better piece down on paper and put it away, so when i think my chapter is done, i will grab the notes i made and reread the chapter again and then make the decision if i want to keep it or not.

Ughh....I'm still half way chapter one and it is bugging me already and especially the beginning is bugging me. -__-

I almost had a fight with a friend that i met on a forum, roleplay forum. (Yes i'm still roleplaying) because he was bugging me and he is so full of himself and then i'm trying to keep myself calm but i can't and then i told him. I don't care because it is just a roleplay and then he is annoying me more and more and then when i keep telling myself and him it is just a roleplay he just keeps getting under my skin. I don't want to take the roleplay too seriously but he said something about real life and then he gets me again because i don't want a fourteen year old telling me things about my private life even though he doesn't know anything important but he was going to far. It is really frustrating me so i stepped back and watched a program with my family.

I needed to get this out but now it is good now, i have let it go and tomorrow is Saturday and i will be working on my novel again and now without all the distractions.

Byeee,

Mila

The first chapter

Hey everyone,

So a new day and actually starting on the first chapter of my novel. It is going well so far i only had some trouble with how to explain certain kind of activities in the chapter. I have lots of question that i'm asking myself. I started my chapter explaining about the country and the ministry that it had become corrupt since the war but then my question is, is it smart of me to start the information in the beginning of the book? So many question has come up to me and i decided to write them down and i put my document away and look at the question i asked myself.

Most of the question i answered myself because it is my novel and i know the story more than others do but still a couple of question stays open because i don't know how to answer them. I watched movies and interviews on youtube about great English authors and then i got a bit crazy, my mind was spinning around so i decided to let it rest. I cleaned up my room and i watched some television and talked with some friends and after dinner it hit me, when i was sitting on the couch with a nice cup of tea it hit me that was after looking at it quite obvious.

This is my story, the ideas are from my own mind, i just was thinking inside the box and not outside so why can't i answer the questions? Simple if i can't answer the question i just have to change that part that can't be answered. It made me happy and it will give me a big boost when i'm editing it tomorrow and start and then i do another situation because i can. =)

Now it is pretty hard to write the first chapter because i don't really have inspiration right now and i'm busy with exams as well as speaking of exams. I have one tomorrow but then after my exam i go to the library and take a quiet spot and start writing in quietness (i don't know if that is an actual word)

So this is a short blog post because i'm learning still now i still have the time..

Talk to you all later.

Byeeee,

Mila

Finding the right names

Hey Everyone,

Again i didn't get to my deadline of writing my blog and i do know why not. I said it was 20.00 o'clock my time but i just found out that at 20.00 o'clock i'm still working at stuff for my novel. So i'm going to reschedule the deadline that i have to write the blog and now i'm going to stick to it. At eleven o'clock my time i will be writing my blog and then when i'm finished i will post it.

After posting my blog yesterday i watched the movie Great Expectations from the book from Charles Dickens. I always thought it was a great story but now i have actually seen it, it was quite disturbing and confusing but i really wanted to see it because my two favorite actor and actress are playing in it. I had hoped i could get some fresh things from that movie for my novel but i didn't understand half the movie so that was not really a succes.

So this morning i set again behind my desk and up for a start at my novel, chapter 1 of course. I found out that i totally forgot to find a name for the cities i'm using. I don't really want to have real city names as i want to use my own self created city and then i don't have to follow the facts about the city and the country the real city is in. I'm so bad at names and if i found a name, it was either a really bad name or the name did exist in a country that i didn't know it existed. So i asked a friend of mine to help with a name and she gave me two names and i was really happy about that. Well i don't have enough with two names but i have a start.

Ohh did i tell you that English is not my mother language? Well it is not and even though i follow a study that makes me understand English better and helps me with my writing, i had a really hard time with describing the winter weather for a draft of the novel i'm working on. I always use the same words when i'm writing in English or talking English and i want to have other words that means the same thing. I opened google and found an amazing website that is helping me with the other words i want to use. I'm soo happy i found that website!!

Well now i don't have much things to say, writing my first chapter was hard but it is coming so i'm glad but now i'm just tired and all i want to do is post the blog, turn off my laptop and play a game on my phone.
I'll see you all tomorrow night.

byeee,

Mila

Inspiration..

Hey everyone...

Yeahh in the introduction i said 20.00 o'clock my time but instead i'm writing it now almost midnight here in damn cold Holland. I have no excuses for my delay. So as i was sitting behind my laptop, prepared to start writing. With my notepad with the drafts next to me and a pencil on top of it, i just couldn't come up with a good summary. I thought suddenly this is not happening to me now because i have no time for a writersblock.

Well i guess i'm a bit stuck on how to begin, i have been doing research for my novel and i have been creating my main characters. It just came up to me that i need more inspiration but how am i going to find inspiration?

I opened google in a next tab on my webbrowser and typed how to get inspiration, so many things to get inspiration and for some people going outside for a walk gives them a lot of inspiration but then i thought about myself. I tried going out with a small notepad and a pencil and i went for a walk. Behind my house there is some kind of an open space, they made it a small park and i walked over the path and then i sat down and it was a very nice view, with water and a bunch of cows (it was spring then) eating grass. I looked at the view and then i grabbed the small notepad with my pencil and i just started writing things down, the weather, the landscaping but as i was writing people walked by and they looked at me awkwardly and at first i didn't notice it but when i looked up and a man was looking at me from a distance while he was walking towards me i just felt uncomfortable. It was like they never saw a girl with a notepad and a pencil before. I just quickly grabbed my things and walked home.

I also tried to sit on the couch and look out of the window and looking at what happens outside, it helped and i wrote a lot of stuff down but i stopped when my mom and my brother told me that i shouldn't be so curious about what is going on outside and my younger sister when she sat next to me just looked outside with me as if there was something happening, i looked at her and she laughed and asked why i was looking outside the whole time. I couldn't tell them i was trying to get inspiration for my novel, i want it to be something i made up so i haven't told my family that i'm writing a novel.... Well i did told my sister because she is my soulmate, she is my supportive and lovely sister.

Now when i was creating my characters i was listening to one of my favorite artists. I love piano music and one day i stumbled upon him while i was searching for some feel good music on youtube. Ludovico Einauldi, this man is brilliant, i love his music and especially I Giorno. You all should look him up if you have the time, that song makes me calm but on depressing days it can either cheer me up or make me cry.

That is all i tried to get inspiration and to be honest i don't even know how i got this idea for a novel, it just popped into my head and i started brainstorming and one day i just decided that i was going to make this, what i had brainstormed into a novel. I'm just going to keep searching for ways to get more inspiration.

So if you want to give me tips or leave a comment how you like my blog so far, you can and i love to get comments as long as they are nice and with good feedback =)

Well this is it for now, blog you all later.

Byeee,

Mila

Let's start with....introduction.

Hello everyone

Here this is my new blog and today it is 21st of January 2014.
I want to introduce myself and tell you all why i want to keep a blog.

First my own introduction...

I'm Jamila, my nickname is Mila because that is easier. =)
I'm 24 years old and i'm from the Netherlands. You see that i write in English and that has a reason so don't worry, i will explain that to you later in this blog.
I was born on June 2 in 1989 and was born in a family with 7 children including me! I have two older brothers, three older sisters and i have a younger sister. I have a lot of cousins from several ages and i love being an aunt to them. It is not always easy to be the nice and happy aunt but i love the kids to pieces.

Enough about my family, up to me because that is all this blog is about. I have a hobby and i have this hobby since i was a year of nine. I write stories and i stepped from writing stories in Dutch to writing stories in English. I am a huge fan of the English Language. So what is nicer than to create a novel in the language that i love right?

That is why my first blog is a novel in 365 days. I'm going to create a novel in 365 days! This blogs is going to help me go through those 365 days of hard work, through the bad and the good times, the writersblock i will have and how i celebrate the small victories i will be having, at least i hope i will be having them.

I will write blogs for my own so i can loose stress and tension to make this novel. I need to get used to come here at the end of the day and write a blog about my day and what the good and the bad things were. Also i need to keep telling myself my goal. That goal is that i have this novel in 365 days.

Doing this novel next to my school work and the birthdays, the holidays or just the days that i'm sick will be hard but i want to do this for myself and letting myself know that i can do this. So i'll start with 5000 words written per day for the next two weeks. It is a challenge but i'm going for it. It will end on the February 4th.

So on this blog you will read about my hard work, starting tonight at 20.00 o'clock my time.

Thank you all and i'll see you tonight.

bye, 
Mila