Hi everyone,
I didn't feel comfortable posting in the regions from where I actually reside (in USA) and somehow I feel more safe posting here. Anyways, a lot of my novel is full of Indian stuff. I am Gujarati and I suppose my novel excerpt largely describes me.
I hope you don't mind me joining (this was the first forum I joined last week anyway). I relate more to you than to the other groups.
But, I have been feeling so stressed with my novel simply because I have no idea what I am doing or going, because a lot of it is reality from different parts and not so far from reality fiction (at least that is how I read it), and I suppose I switch voices a lot in the novel. I don't know why I am getting so worked up over this. I watched Harry Potter's Order of the Phoenix movie, and I was wondering how to write a very catching book that people will like. I never read Harry Potter books but the author had something that makes so many people like it.....
Okay, signing off for now... I suppose it is daytime for you, but it is 1:32 AM and I have exhausted myself wondering about how to fix the novel. I feel like totally switching gears and making it pure fiction (not based off of real people or events). Anybody found themselves writing themselves in their novels and then when showing it to others find it too personally affecting one. I don't really understand what's happening to me with my novel. I have written an autobiography long back, but this novel is pulling at some psychological strings inside me possibly...
How to make narrator consistent? I am reading Wodehouse and finding it bland now compared to what I have inside me apparently wanting to get out onto paper..... but I must have some conventions ...
-Kalidasa (obviously not my real name)
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Hi Kalidasa,
Of course you are more than welcome here! And I am sure that you will find as you start writing, that you didn't really need to stress about the whole thing :-) You will read it everywhere, but it is really true. When you start writing, your characters start moving in directions you never thought of before and your novel will appear to have a life of its own! At least, that is what is happening with me too.
Hope you have a great time writing, and good luck with the word count!
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