Lack of direction, so here are the options

I don't know what I want to do with my life right now, but I think I'm leaning towards teaching Highschool/College english perhaps, since I'm not a good enough writer to really make it in that area. Perhaps that could be a sideshow thing going on. All I know is that I wouldn';t like to be a programmer for a living. It's just not fun, even though it would eventually get me almost close to my dreams...that's the problem, though. Almost close. I want to create worlds, and the technicalities of programming would really get in the way. I'll be satisfied with playing games for now instead of making them :).

Ideas, stuff...

Lauren's going to have my head for thinking in such a worldly fashion (the dreamer part comes when I write it, young one ;) ), but I think that the ideas that I'm coming up with will help my plotlines be more touching emotionally and more powerful to the reader.

Ok, my idea is that there are several emotions that generally affect the human mind strongly. These are emotions that cause us to be happy, sad, rejoiceful, emotions that fill us up or sink us down. Really good writing can have that effect on someone, and many writers try their whole lives to convey strong senses of how their audiences feel, so taht they can manipulate(I hate to say it, but it fits) their audience and use the emotions conveyed in the writing to further strengthen the emotions felt by the reader.

These emotions can include feelings of loss, of love, of revenge, of justice, of hope, of friendship and companionship. I think that I will have to use my plotlines to effectively surround at least three or four of these ideas in order to really get my audience to feel the writing. Many popular stories have done this, stories such as Lord of the Rings (companionship, love, despair, hope, etc.) really encompass many of these strong emotions. The ancient playwright Sophocles used this same sort of idea to really create amazing storylines, and his works still can't be touched to this day.

Well, there it is...I'll have to use that idea somehow...

New fantasy idea, thanks to Erica

Well, Erica said that she was considering starting her fourth novel, so she gave me the opening sentence. I proceeded to predict the rest of the novel, and of course I was totally wrong. However, I don't think that my ideas were that bad...and I may be writing something later on, to be posted here.