This is an experiment that I personally want to try for this year. Writing a fiction. It’s like threading uncharted waters for me. Honestly, I don’t have any background of fiction writing. All my life, I’ve only been a consumer, a well-spending consumer really. It’s kind of embarrassing how many books I have in my shelf that I haven’t touched yet.

So far, I enjoy the small progress. Writing tiny notes on how the story would go, what kind of characters I want to have. All sorts of nice stuff. In the middle of writing the second part, I realized the similarities between the story I write and the anime, A Sign Of Affection. Well, I wish mine is that good and impactful.

Granted, it’s never wise to compare your own work to the great work of others, especially for a first timer like me. I can see A Sign Of Affection as a great inspiration for me, though. After all, my story and the anime share a similar setting, and genre.

However, it leads to another block that I just now noticed. When I read, I feel emotions, albeit they’re kind of second hand emotions. You know, when a character feels this way, it’s not me who’s feeling the frustration, the sadness, or the joy, it’s them. I find myself to empathize with them, yet it’s never my genuine reaction to the situations they’re in.

I guess it’s okay when I’m reading. But, when I’m actually writing, I find myself spending so much time figuring out what the character I write would feel. I have a pretty good idea about what they’re supposed to be as a person. But, it turns out, conveying how they perceive things, how they express what they think, and stuff like that isn’t as easy as I imagined.

On top of that, if I decide to narrate from another character’s perspective, then I need to adapt to them on a personal level. Wow! I guess this is where acting class can really come in handy. The more I write, the more I understand how complex fictional works can be.

Anyway, if you would like to read what I wrote, this is the link to my Wattpad. It’s still at the beginning of the story. But, feel free to say what you think about it, though. I plan to write about ten to twenty chapters, with around a thousand words in each chapter. I think it’s a decent starting point. Cheers!