Creative Writing – Writing Fiction

Creative Writing can be overwhelming, especially if you are a novice attempting to come up with the perfect idea for your first novel. There are so many great writers, so many stories have already been told, and new ones are being published every day. You may feel intimidated and think that there may not be any stories left to tell.
How will yours differ? Can you write something that will be praised or will it just be a pale lookalike in the eyes of your peers? Where will you end up in the never ending stream of wannabe storytellers?
Every idea that comes to mind is criticized, cut down and thrown out with the trash.
Space and Time:
Your mind wanders off through the universe, in search of new planets or aliens, ideas begin to take form, moons, stars, spaceships, you’ve seen it too many times, give up, and warp back to reality, wondering if there ever lived a worm in a wormhole.
Underwater:
Now that’s an idea! Underwater cities – taken, man-eating sharks – taken, mutating fish, mermaids, submarines, you’re drowning, and decide that you really didn’t want to get your feet wet anyway, as a giant squid hangs you up to dry off.
Fantasy:
That’s got to be easy, it’s just make believe, imagination… You can have mad beasts, winged horses, fairies, even talking animals, a few wizards maybe…oh no, you forgot the magic words, and you spilled the potion on your draft.
Romance:
Tears come to your eyes as you think up the scenes to the best love-story ever, who could write a romance novel if not you. You live and breathe it every day. Waiting for prince charming to knock on your door, ready to throw yourself into his arms and hide your tear stained face at his muscular chest. You take his hand and ride off into the horizon and as the sun sets you become one.
Creative Writing gives you power! You have the entire known and unknown universe at your fingertips. You have the power to manipulate, to build and create, to do anything.
Anything and everything – do you feel that power?
You and only you can tell the story!
Create alternate universes, non existing planets, beings never imagined before. Cities, rivers, forests and mountains unknown to man, uncharted lands lie before and beyond you. People or aliens, different races and species, with fiction there are no boundaries or limits. You are the creator!
Mad, evil, loving, dumb, they are putty in your mind’s eye, add or take away. Make them all suffer for eternity or let them live happily ever after. Give them the breath of life or send them to their death. They laugh, they cry, you are in control. Life and death are in your hands!
Did you ever think that creative writing could be so empowering?