Today I'm sick. In fact I've been sick since Sunday, but now I feel very weak. I even missed the parent-teacher conference; I never miss the conference before.
But still I want to write something.
"The story must not bore the reader." Well, it's so subjective. Things I find interesting may not be so for another. Guess the best I can do is to create conflict in the story. I'm evaluating the idea I have for the story so far: a woman gets pregnant from the affair with a married man, jumps into a time machine to go back in time before she meets the man. But what is she going to do? Warn herself? Kill the man? Kill the man's wife? Steal money from that man? Or else? And the time-traveling thing, can she always comes back and forth? Or is this just a one-time thing?
I guess it depends on what message I want to send.
Continue with what I care the most topic from yesterday, I guess I care about kids too. I am not really a good father: I don't spend enough time with them. Well, my excuse is my father never spent time with me so I just don't know what to do and how. But whenever I read news about abused children, I can't help it but to relate the news to my kids, and I am enraged. There are billions of people living in extreme poverty, every 3 seconds a child under 5 die, and yet the countries across the world spend over $30,000 on weapons every second. Each death could have been saved by just one dollar or two.
That's why I love the movie "The Girl in the Café." It tells you about helping the world without preaching on your face.
Alright. So a pregnant woman goes back in time to fix her problem, and I care about children. Is it heading to anywhere?
So far not yet, I guess. But hopefully we'll get there... 95 more days to go.
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