Shouldn’t every blog start off with a BANG?

Not mine, apparently. Really, the fact that I’ve gotten around to writing an entry is an achievement in itself.

I’ve always admired those bloggers who stay consistent and somehow manage to update daily, weekly or even monthly. Seriously, give me an article to write and I’m on it, but personal updates? Once a year is in an achievement in itself.

So, how do I push myself to write and complete books when 1. a novel is technically personal to the author as it’s written using fragments of life experience and imagination 2. I’m so bad at being consistent with any ‘personal’ posting?

Beats me. I guess having deadlines helps, and coffee. There’s also something about watching a story come to life that keeps making me come back. The cons? My characters take the story out of my hand and into their own. It happens. Every. Single. Time. How can an author lose control when they have the power you ask? Haha…dunno.

Let me put it this way, if you’ve read my Dragon of Legend series, or any other of my works, I can assure you that the story you read and the one I planned are very different. Not just in premises and plot, but even the characters.

When it comes to writing, things just happen. There are moments when the plot clearly should head one way but ends up going in another. Characters that weren’t meant to die go and do so while those that were doomed to a miserable demise somehow live. Good characters become bad and vice-versa, and often the main character even has the audacity to walk down the path of a completely different plot.

Would you believe me if I said Dragon of Legend: Destiny was supposed to end at one short novel?

Of course, my lack of power does frustrate me at times. Friends have occasionally walked in on me having a one-sided yelling contest with my characters. This usually ends with the same friends slowing backing away and never speaking of the event again or asking one or two concerned questions about my health. The moral of the story? I’ve learned to just sit back and go along for the ride. Though I often feel more like a third party watching rather than the author, I almost prefer this. It keeps things interesting.

Now that I went off on a tangent, I don’t even remember what this blog was going to be about. I assume that means it’s a good excuse to end my random ramblings here.

Thanks for reading.

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