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My Theater of Mind is Now Live

My poor lil’ blog…

dah lama i abandon u…kkk… it’s not busy actually but lazy…

I have a new thing going on now… i’m making my second novel. Well… i don’t know if it can be called "2nd" coz the 1st one was like zapped out by the time my PC broke down… it was already 23 pages or more and i was in the middle of the story climax but it finally washed out just like that… T_T cry…cry…cry… The thing that makes me even sadder is the fact that it’s based on my true love story with some modifications here and there… waaaaa… T_T hikz 100000x… i’m totally up set and disappointed.

But now i’ve made a lot of protections for this one, i saved the file in my new lovely USB, my home PC and office PC, so with 3 storages, i feel lot more safe…^_^

This 2nd one is quite different with the 1st in many ways. first, it’s totally based on my imagination, there’s no single part that comes from my real life or friends’ life or any other person that i ever know…it’s purely based on my imagination. Second, in my 1st novel, the writer is the leading role while in this one the writer is not. Third, the 1st novel was narrative while this one is descriptive… so all of the above differences make this second one tougher than the previous.

This is my 1st on making a descriptive script and i can tell that it’s very difficult, yet i have to make the readers understand what i am describing in the novel in order to have the same visualizations. Moreover, as a writer, i’m not writing about my self as the leading role, which is more easier if i am, but i have to understand the feeling and character of every roles appear in the novel fairly and put them all in words. Well, that’s a bit challenging, coz in order to show the character and feeling of the leading man role, that means that i have to know exactly how a man feels when he’s happy, sad, upset, disappointment, etc…i need a survey or even make an interview on that thing, i guess…any volunteer?

The idea of making this story came quite while ago but i didn’t dare to put it in writing, however two days ago, it’s when i got fever and stayed at bed for a whole day, i was imagining it again, the story, plot from the very 1st start up to the end.. and the most surprising thing is that, i was like watching a film inside of my mind (prob that’s what my lecturer said, a theater of mind), and i was drawn into the plot, i even cried and my heart ached when i reached the sad moments, i really could feel it and it’s like real..i was amazed and still am, and that’s when i decided to live it.

I’m still on page 3, there’s still long way to go, i don’t know how many pages it will be, i don’t make any target coz pages are not the target, instead that’ll make the story and plots too draggy.. i’ve asked my little sister to read the 1st page, i’m happy to learn that she can visualize while reading, that means it works ^_^ hope the same for the incoming pages..

The title is in English coz I couldn’t find any better title in Indonesian than what I’ve decided. Checked on search engine whether the title has ever been used coz i don’t want it to sound cheapy, but from what i found, the title was never used for a book, but it’s the title of one of Def Leppard’s songs, i don’t even know who this gentleman or even band is.

While the story itself is in Indonesian, a little bit English and German. first, i intended to write it in English but i throw up the idea coz it’s gonna be difficult for me to do it coz my english is not flawless.

Wupps… that’s long… hope this time i’ll make it to the end and finally able to make everyone read, feel and get the moral of the story.

-missb-

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