02/12/13
As promised: my blog part 3 - The Odyssey of this Writer. Here's
the link: http://fritz-franke.tumblr.com/.
Posted once a week and kept short. Follow if you dare & click if you like
for a heckava ride.
So I began writing The Chosen One from the Savior Project and
discovered something profound. Even though I could see the entire story from
beginning to end as if it were a movie in my mind, I had no idea how to
translate that into words on paper. After a few attempts, I got as far as a
couple of paragraphs and it looked like crap. It wasn’t anything like what I
saw in my mind and it certainly wasn’t anything like Fantasy/SciFi books I’ve
read. I realized that I didn’t know how to write. Frustration set in but the
dreams continued. Yes, that’s where they all came from but that’ll be addressed
later. So what was I to do?
Well, the first thing I did was to sulk and stay pissed for a
while. That sure helped a lot. I finally decided I needed to learn in some
organized fashion. I checked into classes at my alma mater, UVa. In the fall of 2007, I took my first Creative Writing course
since my days in college way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth – as my kids
would say. I absolutely loved it. And it helped. Next week – Fritz the
student.
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