The plot thickens

Some people who know me (okay, everyone who knows me) might say I've lost the plot. With regards to an old story of mine, they'd be right.

If you think that nearly 200 pages on Microsoft Word with a handful of colourful characters, some witty lines and a dark undertone would create an amazing, award-winning story, you'd be wrong. Okay, well maybe in general you get a good story but in my case, you get a really long and confusing one.

There are witches. Half vampires. Fairies. Demons. And predictable romances. It screams inexperience, oozes clichés and reeks of poor planning. I re-read it now and just want to throw up from the sickening chunks of urgh.

In my defence, I was 14 when I wrote it. But really, that's no excuse. It makes me worry about the kind of rubbish I write now, four years later. In another four years I guess I'll know.

What I want you to take away from this is: if you're going to write a long story, iron out the details and ask yourself "why is this happening?" before anything is set in stone. Then scribble all over it and start again on a fresh piece of paper. You'll thank me one day. I hope.