Has anyone else been watching a movie and have it all figured out in the first 20 minutes? It's annoying, isn't it? You sit there and watch the rest of the movie, hoping that maybe the actors will pull off some sort of transcendent performance to make you forget how uninspired the plot is, or maybe the writeers are able to at least punch it up with some witty dialogue. You just end up thinking, "Man, I could do better than this."
No. You can't.
It turns out that writing fiction can be incredibly difficult. I firmly believe that inside me, I have the next great movie franchise. but writing is hard. Dialogue is difficult to make it sound real and not forced, plot is difficult. Before you start, you need to have an idea as to what your story is about before you just sit down and start writing. But I'll tell ya, the part that I struggle with is coming up with names. Just simple names. First name, last name. How do you come up with something? Do you choose something ridiculous? Or something that sticks out? Or something plain?
Apparently, one of the hardest things to do is to simulate reality.
Bernie, I miss your blog! I hope you start it up, again!
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