{"id":181,"date":"2013-07-27T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2013-07-27T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T17:28:05","slug":"why-its-tough-to-write-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/27\/why-its-tough-to-write-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Tough to Write a Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By fits and starts I&#8217;ve been trying to write a novel ever since I read Goethe&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther\">The Sorrows of Young Werther<\/a><\/em>. It&#8217;s a small book with an emo story of young love.<\/p>\n<p>My first attempt involved a clever ending where the protagonist kills his antagonist right in front of the cops, but due to the nature of the murder, gets away with it scott free.<\/p>\n<p>My second attempt involved a magical realism attempt to portray life in San Francisco during the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>I am now on my 3rd attempt. <\/p>\n<p>The problem I&#8217;ve run into is that the world is changing quickly. Also, my passion for an idea soon fades away. I lose the inspiration that made it possible to write in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough to write a novel because I need my emotions to fuel it. To keep these emotions (jealousy, love, hate, pity) going, I need to have little reminders of them. This is where notebooks and photos are really helpful. They spark and re-ignite the dead fire of what was supposed to be chapter 3. They also provide a lose structure.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping that this final attempt will produce &#8220;the novel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By fits and starts I&#8217;ve been trying to write a novel ever since I read Goethe&#8217;s The Sorrows of Young Werther. It&#8217;s a small book with an emo story of young love. My first attempt involved a clever ending where the protagonist kills his antagonist right in front of the cops, but due to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/27\/why-its-tough-to-write-a-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why It&#8217;s Tough to Write a Novel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}