Nemi Cotume Viberg

It’s going forward!

So… after a lot of work and thoughts I’ve successfully got two apps on my iPod so I can write on my book when I’m not at home and then syncronise as soon as I get home. One of the apps costed me some money but it’s really worth it. The second one is a trial for 30 days and we’ll see if I will buy a subcription of it or if I will do some extra work and only use the one that I paid for. But so far so good, I think. Now I can get to all my word documents and all my documents on onenote. Since I have an older version I couldn’t use the app for it, cause it was just for onenote 2010.

I’m glad that this works! I’ve been writing in my loggbook that I’m trying to keep so I can write down my thoughts, fails and what I’ve succeeded with.

I hope you can excuse my bad english, I can speak english pretty well but obviously not write in english. I have a bad feeling that there’s a lot of mistakes here but.. I don’t wanna think about it at the moment.

Well.. I’m of to watch a movie and perhaps update my loggbook… bye for now.

Writing is my life

I love to write, there’s nothing better and I would love to share this with you, this feeling I’ve got everytime I work on my big project or everytime I write something.

Ever since I was a kid I’ve been writing stuff. Mostly very lame things where I took already existing characters and put them together in a story. The thing every story I wrote back them have in common is that they all were about animals, and how they live as we do. That’s something I’ve always been writing about. When I got older, I started to write more serious stuff, but still about animals. This time the stories wheren’t that lame as they were when I was a kid.

When I in 7th grade I began to write about something that I thought would be good, but I dropped it after just a couple of years, I was kinda stuck and I didn’t feel so good.When I began in high school I started to write something that was really serious. I still got my thing going on with the animals living like human beings cause I feel safe in that world, but now something was different. It started out with a simple story, with murders and someone is blamed for it but is innocent and someone have to clear him from all charges and get the guy who really did it.2005 I had written 500 pages by hand and I had written 80 of them into the computer. The computer crashed and so did those 80 pages and I was mad for two weeks. I had to start all over with the new draft but instead I started to build up the world a bit more after the accident.

I continued to write about this world, more and more characters got names but this was not so deep. I had my maincharacters, I had their family, some friends, some enemies and a place where they could live but something didn’t feel right. That year (2005) I began to write poems. I was dying without knowing I was so I wrote my first poem. I got better the same year and I was stronger and I had more inspiration and motivation than ever. I was stuck though, something wasn’t right.

When I moved to another city after high school I started to work a lot on the background. I did that during high school aswell but now I focused a little bit more on the background. I got my first laptop and I started all over again on the story, I wrote a new draft after I’ve finished the new facts in the background. Now I got to page 157 until I felt that something doesn’t add up. I continued to work with the background and this was year 2006-2007. I have worked on the background ever since. I came up with a sport, with a government system, with a currency and how they do their trials. Something was wrong though, something was still bugging me and I couldn’t figure out what.

It wasn’t until last year or perhaps two years ago I could finally put my finger on what the problem was. The world I’ve built up for my characters wasn’t their own world at all. They lived among humans, and they had to stay in secret all the time, no freedom at all. I created a hugh island for them to live on, and every problem I had just lifted from my heart. The big change I made gave me more work to do cause now I need a history, how they got to where they are now and it’s a lot of work and a lot of research but as long as it’s fun I will continue until I’m finished with it.

So now I’m building my capital city, I’m trying to make up some sort of league for their sport and some sort of school tournament. A lot of public buildings have to be described and I haven’t finished the history part yet or built up a proper government.

To create something like this is just wonderful. I love this, to have power over a world of my own. A world nobody else can change but me. I love to imagine that I’m actually there, walking around on the streets, in the park or on the mountains. I love to imagine that I’m with my friends there, watching a game between the top teams in this sport I’ve created. My friends in this case is the characters I’ve created for the story. It’s important to get to know them and I’ve done that with some of them but I’m not done with that part either. I need to find some connections between some of the characters that is a bit of a surprise or a twist in the story, and it’s a tricky thing to do. I need to figure out how the characters met, where they met, if they are good or bad, what species they are, what they look like, walk like, their interests and deepest wishes. Everything is important and everything is wonderful to write about.

I’m gonna be honest with you… If I didn’t have this book to work on… I would be dead by now. This keeps me alive, keeps me breathing and keeps me sane. My aunt said so herself, “If you didn’t have your book to turn to, you wouldn’t have made it so far… not with that depression.” That’s kind of what she said this last christmas.

I live for this, then if I publish it, it would be a big bonus but as long as I can write about my beloved characters and give them life and teach them things. As long as I can be with them through their hard times I will stay alive. They listen to me, they support me like no one else can, not in that way that is.

I don’t know what my point is really, I jus wanted to share this with you.

Bye for now.

Rookie

Hey!

I’m a bit of a rookie in this but I thought it would be fun to try, so I’ll try this. And if I doesn’t find it fun, then I don’t.. well we’ll see.. I will probably write alot about my writing here but I might post other stuff aswell.

We’ll see.

Wish me luck!