Sketch
I try to write fiction and I just sputter and quit. I don't know what it is about fiction that hangs me up. I mean, I love making up stories but I feel like I grew up writing songs where you have to get right to the meat of the thing and avoid extra words. Not that I think fiction requires extra words in the sense of extraneous words, but I certainly enjoy thorough, descriptive passages about a place or person in the story. It boggles my mind how someone becomes proficient at fiction. If I'm really honest I guess any kind of storytelling writing really sort of goes over my head. The way a good writer can hold you in the palm of their hand with words on a page. That is impressive. This blog post was actually supposed to be a foray into a character sketch but I gave up about 3 paragraphs in because I started trying to make it a story. There's my problem, I think. I sat out to do a character sketch and tried to force it into a story. Maybe I could just tell you about the dri...