Open Secret? What's that all about?

I'll start out by answering the question in the title of this, my first blog. Open Secret is the current title of a book I'm writing. I say current title because it has changed a few times. It started out as 'Secluded Sin', then changed to 'arrrgggggg' and then ' Stupid book with no name' and finally to 'Open Secret'. It's currently around 78,000 words, if you need a comparison to how big it is - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is 115,362 words and 498 pages long. I don't know how many pages my book is in 'book form' but on my computer it's 138 pages, using MS Word size 11 font. If I put the font up to 12 it's like 150 pages.

People always ask me what my book is about and to be honest it'd take me a few hours to describe it. It's somewhat of a romantic drama but there's going to be supernatural/sci-fi element to it also...and no, it's not about vampires lol. It's about regular people. I guess it's kind of one long blog post by my protagonist and, therefore, is obviously written in first person p.o.v. Auryn is my protagonist's name and she writes everything from her point of view. I've tried to incoporate a lot of her history in the book so it's not starting up from a point in time with an already fully constructed character and you have no background on her. I describe a lot of her history and background by means of conversation between characters, she tells her 'story' to them so therefore we, the readers, learn it also.

I would love to say that I sat down and wrote a plan about how this book would be laid out, wrote idea's down and have pages upon pages of notes. But the truth is I got an epiphany for a book idea one day, sat down at my computer and wrote the first 20 pages over the space of 2 hours. From there it's grown. Sometimes I spend hours, even days writing it. Other times I go months without even looking at it. I don't write notes, I carry a note book with me to write ideas in but I don't write out passages and use them later on. I even carried a netbook laptop in my handbag and written when waiting in doctors surgery's and the like but I am currently in the process of replacing it with a full sized laptop. It's been ordered, paid for and is apparently on it's way to me.

I write when I'm motivated to and 90% of the time I don't even need to think about the direction the book is taking, it just kind of flows out of my head, through my fingers and onto the screen. I've had to sit down and think seriously about where it's going and what might happen, it has a prologue at the beginning that basically describes a situation that, the further you read, the more you realise can't be true, yet somehow it is. This means I know how the book is going to end, I just need to write the rest of it to meet that ending.

I really enjoy writing, I feel I have a more than adequate grasp of the English language and I enjoy using my brain and being creative. If I'm not writing I'm usually making something, cards, crocheted items or cross stitches. I even cook which I see as a form of creation also. I always have to be doing something. I can't just sit around watching tv all the time. I need to have my brain stimulated. I can watch tv, or a movie but I've usually got my latest crochet or cross stitching project in my hands at the same time. It's rare for a movie or a television program to capture enough of my brain's attention that I'll just sit and watch it, ignoring everything else.

If anyone even reads my blog and is interested in reading a section of my book I may post it later on.  I have a few close friends who like to keep up with it and they love it, and I'm hoping they're being honest and not trying to save my feelings lol. So who knows, others might like it too. I didn't start writing it with the intention of writing it to be published, or for anyone else to like. It was purely to get this story out of my head and to do something I enjoy, though now I am thinking I might like to have it published, for no other reason but to have a copy of it on my bookshelf and be able to say to my son 'look, I wrote that book. I did something that was meaningful and worthwhile in my life and if I can, you can' and he can have that book always. To show to his children and even grandchildren. I think that would be nice

My next entry will be a little more about me, and less about the book. I was just searching for a name for my blog and thought why not use my book title. It is now a large part of my life so why not.