I really like the music people have been suggesting! I love listening to music when I write, but find lyrics SO distracting!
I started a new story because I just didn’t know where to start with all the errors in my first attempt. I think I just tried to put too much stuff into the little story I made and didn’t explain ANYTHING well enough. Anyway, my new story is going really good, I just am having SUCH a hard time with a title! Looking at the recent posts though, I can see everyone’s pretty much having the same problem.
My story is about a woman recently married that kills herself because no one saw the signs. Any thoughts on a title?
Also, my goal for the summer is to write another really good short story! Probably try to fix my first story that I made you all suffer through. Sorry again for that :p
Alright, I didn’t do the greatest on my the first submission of my story The Prince and I would love some feedback on how to rework the beginning of it. Any suggestions? I would love to fix and finish my story before the end of the semester but I have no idea where to start!
saw this photo in search for inspiring pix/videos/lyrics. Also here is a song i really like by Spoken that sort of helped me develop interest in persuing this story.
Sleep Well Tonight
I’m sending this letter to you
In hopes that it find you well
I wanted to say I love you and I miss you
I pray that you sleep well tonight
I hope you dream of me
I’ll write again tomorrow
I’ll be home soon
I’m a million miles away from you
I can’t get you off my mind
(not that I’m trying but)
All I want is to is hold you again
Sleep well tonight
All these miles that stand between us get shorter everyday
I’m calling to say I love you and I miss you
I can see the city skyline
I’m not that far away
I pull into the driveway and I see you
I’m a million miles away from you
I can’t get you off my mind
(not that I’m trying but)
All I want is to is hold you again
Sleep well tonight
Sleep well tonight
Sleep well tonight
Sleep well tonight
I’m a million miles away from you
I can’t get you off my mind
All I want is to is hold you again
Sleep well tonight
I think its fairly obviouse my opinion of war. Im writing my female charactor kind of the same way. Not only because I can easily relate to her contempt for the war and death, but because it sets a more dramatic mood for my story because the husband feels the pressure to return and the wife feels the walls closing in around her due to her lonliness and regret (possibly havent gotten that far) for marrying a soldier. I kinda want to kill off the wife, maybe make her unfaithful so that the reader doesnt get sad when she dies. Not sure how to do it though; maybe a car crash, a stray bullet (show that anywhere can be just as dangerous as war maybe?) or she can die from an STD. Or I was thinking she gets prego by another man while her hubbys on leave. . I dont know. Im ready to just get to the good parts though. Any input? Im so sick of writing happy endings; just so unrealistic. My thoughts are so scattered; I know.
My Idea:
One of the real friends that I made after moving around so much is currently stationed in Japan, and his brother in Afghanistan. Because my family was a military family, my whole life has been about the military and the picture to the left really stuck out to me. I started brainstorming my story idea, and i think that I am going to do a series of letters from a woman in the states awaiting the return of her husband/man. Im thinking about not including the response letters from the soldier, just writing from the womans perspective in response to the news, life stressors, and his letters, or lack of them. Theres nothing more intense than waiting to hear if someone you really care about is alive. I think that it may be slightly difficult to make sure I get all the information necessary to the reader,but I really look forward to starting the story. Here are some other pictures I really liked that i found when googling for inspiration:
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