Blog Me MAYbe is a writer blog meme created/hosted by the lovely Sara McClung of BabblingFlow.Blogspot.com
Tuesday Question: MAY I tell you something about myself?
This is my first meme on my new writer blog here, so I'm excited! I feel like I'm dropping into a community that has so much going on within it already, and I have a lot of catching up to do. I hope I'm doing this meme correctly, but I guess it's hard to go wrong when you're just writing about yourself.
Of course nobody knows much of anything about me because this blog is brand new and this is literally my second post, so I can just start from the beginning. I'm a writer who wants to be an author and publish novels for the YA audience. I love science fiction and fantasy, so I love to write stories that feature speculative elements in them.
I'm currently writing a Young Adult urban fantasy set in contemporary Los Angeles, California with a, perhaps, bizarre fantasy element to it. I'm loving this story more than any other I've written, so far, and the characters are completely alive and real to me. They literally write themselves and I'm just in awe of them. I say to them, "What do you want me to know about you? Who are you?" and they tell me. Maybe not right away, but they do eventually. It's so much fun and I feel so fulfilled. I don't have children, but I imagine this is sort of like that. You give birth to them and they just grow up with your guidance and you let them become whatever they naturally want to become. And, you feel fulfilled. Is that what parenthood is like? (Sunshine & rainbows?)
Anyway, I've been itching to become a novelist for about fifteen years, ever since I was twenty-one. I know that's old for a lot of writers. I'm not one of those who wanted to do it since childhood. But, one day it dawned on me that this was the path I wanted to tread, and the desire to do it never left me. I tried to make it go away and ignored it for many years, but it just wouldn't leave. If it did, it would always come back. If anything, it's stronger now than it ever has been. Is this like being in love? I don't even know what that's like, either, since I never found my one true love (as far as I know).
Writing is how I make sense of my existence since, as you can tell from what I've admitted, I never created my own family. I'll not likely be passing down my DNA to anyone in the future, so writing is a way to become immortal if having progeny doesn't work out. I figured that out during my senior level Shakespeare class way back in my college days. I still remember that moment. After all, it's not like we know who Shakespeare's descendents are. Did he even have any children?
So, this my personal reveal of myself for today. It was fun, and I'll do another one soon, since Sara's idea is really great. It can be hard thinking of what to write in my writer blog, even though I am a writer and I want to writer professionally. Is that ironic?
