Hello! It has been quite a bit, and when we last left off I had not made much strides in my book research/writing. However - we have moved past this! I plan to start writing my book THIS WEEK! I know, how crazy the turn around is. That is where the research and ideas will conclude this week and bring me to next week, where hopefully I can produce a piece of writing or perhaps once I start writing, my course will change, who knows.
Until then, I will show you the rest of what I have been working on. While before I was looking up some articles and ideas on book writing because I am not a visual learner, I learn by reading and looking at instructions. However, I thought that between last week and this week, I would try to change up the way I was researching. For starters, although it has nothing to do with the topics of what I plan on writing, I have been reading the Harry Potter set since just after the new year started. Being on book 6 now, I can't help but think about the writing styles and techniques that J.K Rowling uses and how I can transform those styles into my own writing. I have also turned to YouTube to look at a few different videos on what reading means for others, and how to write a book simply. I decided to turn my research away a bit from how to write the book because it seems to be pretty grounded in the ideas that I have come to understand. But now I want to know why? Why would I write a book? Why do people read? What kind of styles, techniques, ideas do I have to put into my book to make people want to read it?
One video I found was from the famous YouTube site 'CrashCourse' and the video is called "How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1"
How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1
This video was interesting because it explains the way that the English language (will be the language I am using to write, and the only language because I am only an English speaker) is used to highlight specific ideas and components of a book and explain that the idea is brought to life because of the way it is written and then the way it is read. What this means (which I did already know) is that authors WRITE for their stories to be READ a certain way.
Another video related to this same idea is a video called "How to write descriptively - Nalo Hopkinson" on the YouTube channel 'TED-Ed'. This video was useful for my furthering my research on the ideas of writing to portray a specific feeling, adventure, event, etc. and explaining that the point of fiction is to "cast a spell". The idea of fiction might be based on a specific event that happened in real life, but is written in a way to transform the story for the reader to become intertwined in the words and understand the feelings by FEELING them.
Specific words and writing styles touch the readers senses to portray qualities, expectations, ideas, etc. to bring the reader into the story and become wrapped up in the words to feel what the characters are feeling.
That wraps up the majority of my research I have been doing into looking at WHY we write a specific way for a reader to READ that story that way. I will also include a screenshot of what topics of books/short stories I have come up with so far. My next blog post will hopefully include a defined topic and I will have started writing that story or at least come up with some foundations like a time period, characters, setting, plot, etc.
Until next week, thanks for checking in and hopefully you'll still want to follow along to see what kind of creative story components I come up with! Bye for now!
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