I’ve had several ideas in my head kicking around begging to be made into a novel, and lately I’ve actually been working on them and doing lots of research… research that involves biographies of Queen Victoria, history books focusing on Victorian England, and Science Journals… do I have you intrigued? gooood…  I really like writing always have… I know grammatically I’m not that great of a writer but the ideas oh those I have in spades….  I think my biggest problem when it comes to writing is the over thinking… I take what could be a really cool image and over think it and then over write it to the point that the writing can be dreadful… I’ve been really studying authors whose writing styles I like and how they tell their stories and what format that they use… I have been copying whole paragraphs from some of my favorite books then slowly making changes to them to describe a scene from my book(all the same scene) but in the way that they would have wrote it and really enjoying the differences… I know I can write essays I’ve done it before(In fact I have a job writing a column for a Australia transgender magazine), I know I can write a slam poem, I can even write a short story(that won several awards) BUT can I write a whole novel? Can I stick with it long enough to finish and write a book? I just have to remember to calm down and stop thinking and just let my fingers write. Too often I try to make my first copy my final draft (and with essays this often is actually the case) but I am allowed to and even should go back change things rewrite them and move them around… I need to step back and just let the scene unfold from my fingers.