Day 20: Don’t attempt to “sound like” some famous writer.

"Your “voice” is your voice. Your “style” is your style...Keep writing and keep cutting away at the awkwardness that might creep into your writing. Be a natural. As the French novelist, Francois René de Chateaubriand wrote, “The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”"

Guess I'll just do my own style.

I'm thinking about the plot all day. I'm also thinking about the "arrangement" of the story: maybe alternate the time--start from the childhood of the main character, then jump to his 20s, then jump back to childhood, and jump to his 20s again... so on and so forth. I've seen a novel does that, and it looks very good. The purpose I do this is to show how the main character's childhood influences his adult life.

But it's just an idea, and it might change.

Another thing: I'm in fact not so sure if this will really become a "novel;" a novel is a very long story. I'm afraid I can't write a story that long. Maybe start from a novelette or novella. We'll see.

I feel like I have something to say, but don't know how to present it to make it interesting and appealing; not sure how the story develops, and most importantly, how it is going to end.

But at least I'm thinking and writing.

80 more days to go.