Hmmm....

"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."
Eduard Hanslick

Contemplation has been the name of the game today. All my sister has wanted to do is watch Weeds, and when I finally admitted I was tired of watching it she and my hubs decided it was time to play video games...something equally as boring to me as I am not very good at playing first person shooters, especially online. So here I am, 6 hours of boredom later and I have decided to do something productive: figure out that opening chapter! Right now I will simply refer to it as 'Cinder'(the intended finished title of my story). I figure a main attribute of my female main character needs to be the first thing introduced because it wont make sense anywhere else and it's one of the most important things involved in the plot. She and her best friend take an adventure in search of love(yes it's a romance, which will not be the hallmark of my potential writing career, but it's an easy place to start). I am now having a little trouble figuring out exactly how they will depart on this journey of the heart without raising any suspicion. I think a major issue I need to overcome as a writer is, I can write dialogue like it's nobody's business, I just have a problem with the filler. How much is too much description? What should I be putting in the description? I have turned to researching books currently in print, and since I want my story to be successful I have been looking at successful stories. I may dwell on it more in a later post but Twilight to me is a descriptive nightmare, is it really necessary to know the smell of his breath? Her descriptions of the characters seem more like creepy stalkers that need to be institutionalized rather than romance. Practice makes perfect, luckily the advent of computers and Word make it very easy to go back and make changes to documents :)