'Cause I'm All Alone...
It's a fact. Normally (except in particular cases) we don't like being alone with no one around us. Some people attempt to fill this people void with cats instead, but this doesn't always work. Others branch out and actually talk to people, and then you get some nice void-filling conversation going on, and finally you all decide to go to a play about cats. So either way, you're going to end up with cats. Let us all hope and pray you are not allergic to the said felines.
What exactly am I getting at?
In a lot of books, there's a main character who doesn't feel love, who feels alone, who's family doesn't function together. I've noticed that it's a reoccurring theme. It works well for a lot of plots, because if Tommy didn't feel alone and didn't decide to go to the eerie looking pond next door, then he wouldn't have met Suzie and found out about his magical ability to cure all his acne.
But this is often a cliche way to start a book.
Of course, you can't have Tommy adventuring through Pimple Land while his doting parents are freaking out and he has to keep calling them and telling them that he's okay and the white-heads aren't eating him alive. It would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to keep a good plot going and keeping it suspenseful if Tommy's parents keep calling him for updates on his adventure through Pimple Land.
So, yes. Even though it is cliche, it'd be hard to do it otherwise.
A lot of books that I enjoy have this whole alone thing going on. Jack Blank books for example. He's an orphan in an orphanage, everyone's against him it seems...but the author I thought did well to add his own spin on it. If you so choose to use this theme in your books, you need to make it original--not like any others that I've read. By making yours unique and attractive to the readers you're trying to hook into the story, your book will be a success.
Now that I've got my opinions floating out in cyberspace, I'm off to do various Seana things that require my attention. Such as the neighbor's dragon's daily walk, hmm?
<3 Seana
What exactly am I getting at?
In a lot of books, there's a main character who doesn't feel love, who feels alone, who's family doesn't function together. I've noticed that it's a reoccurring theme. It works well for a lot of plots, because if Tommy didn't feel alone and didn't decide to go to the eerie looking pond next door, then he wouldn't have met Suzie and found out about his magical ability to cure all his acne.
But this is often a cliche way to start a book.
Of course, you can't have Tommy adventuring through Pimple Land while his doting parents are freaking out and he has to keep calling them and telling them that he's okay and the white-heads aren't eating him alive. It would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to keep a good plot going and keeping it suspenseful if Tommy's parents keep calling him for updates on his adventure through Pimple Land.
So, yes. Even though it is cliche, it'd be hard to do it otherwise.
A lot of books that I enjoy have this whole alone thing going on. Jack Blank books for example. He's an orphan in an orphanage, everyone's against him it seems...but the author I thought did well to add his own spin on it. If you so choose to use this theme in your books, you need to make it original--not like any others that I've read. By making yours unique and attractive to the readers you're trying to hook into the story, your book will be a success.
Now that I've got my opinions floating out in cyberspace, I'm off to do various Seana things that require my attention. Such as the neighbor's dragon's daily walk, hmm?
<3 Seana
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