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Writing After Reading

I'd like to try writing after reading stories, quotes, jokes, current events, mythology, novels, fairy tales, to not only see what I think and feel about these things but to be inspired in my own fiction and non-fiction publishing efforts.

I've recently started reading a novel call "Three Days to Never," by Tim Powers. I've been having a hard time getting past the first 5 pages and I'm not sure why. I feel like my mind is preoccupied with all of the responsibilities I have, but I'd like to start writing about that story as I read it.

Start with Volume

I find myself frequently feeling inhibited by my own thoughts when I read what my mind produces as I write these blog posts. I feel a bit let down by the quality of what I read. I feel like my thoughts are backward, juvenile, naive and lacking in sophistication.

It occurs to me as well that I have been prone to letting these kinds of thoughts get the best of me, quitting before anything of quality could possibly arise from the dross.

I need to start with volume. I need to amass a lot of "content." I need to write a lot, draw a lot, produce a lot of videos, make digital art and just do stuff until I have vast amounts of stuff that I can sift through to find the diamonds. I need to allow myself to be terrible to be bad to be something, even if that something is not very valuable at first.

Novel Characters

Who are my Harry, Hermione and Ron?

Why do I feel like I want my novel to relate to people like the Harry Potter novels did? Is that even possible for me? It was a very rare occurrence and not likely to happen again anytime soon but why decide in advance that I can't do it? Why not shoot for the stars and see what happens?

Voldemort - goal was to achieve immortality through murder.
Anakin Skywalker - achieve immortality through aligning with a genocidal murderer and then becoming one himself.

Harry Potter - goal was to help his friends defeat the threat of Voldemort. Harry was all about his friends.

I have had several protagonists in past story ideas. I have had Alain Latin, Hugh Nivers, Archimagus, Geneva England and maybe some others that I can't remember at the moment.

My Questions

1. How can I discover the best in me?

2. How can I discard bad habits?

3. How can I get up early every day?

4. How can I develop good habits?

5. How can I find what moves me?

6. How can I respect myself?

7. How can I help my child be her best?

8. What is the best job I could do?

9. What would I be the best at?

10. What is my most financially useful natural gift?

11. How can I truly respect myself?

12. How can I stop sexual immorality?

13. How can I lose weight and get in shape the quickest?

14. What is the best dress style for me?

15. How can I become musically talented?

16. How long would it take to be able to play the guitar improvisationally well?

17. How fast could I learn to read music and improvise on the piano?

18. How long would it take to understand the big picture of history?

19. How long would it take to comprehend the voices of the Great Conversation?

20. Do I have what it takes to join the national intelligentsia?

21. Do I have what it takes to be a multimillionaire or billionaire?

22. What idea will take me to millionaire status?

23. Can I pay off my debts by the end of 2001?

24. Do I have what it takes to be a speed reader?

25. Can I develop a photographic and highly associative memory?

26. What is the best and quickest way to join the top 1% of the top 1% of the wealthy, intelligent and influencial?

27. What will it take to trust myself?

28. What is the best use of my time?

29. How can I make at least $1000 per week starting next week?

30. How can I develop lasting friendships?

31. How can I get people to seek me and my ideas out?

32. How can I be like Leonardo da Vinci?

33. How can I write publishable books?

34. Where do I find my speaking mind and voice?

35. How can I become an influential writer?

36. How can I become and influential speaker?

37. How can I become an important person to millions if not billions?

38. What is my best chance of leaving a fantastic legacy?

39. How do I get a great mentor for free?

40. How do I overcome the fear of failure and rejection?

41. How do I wade through failure and embarrassment to success?

42. How do I remember the principles which will carry me through my fears?

43. How do I gain exemplary balance in my life?

44. How do I accomplish more with my time?

45. How do I overcome sleepiness early in the morning?

46. How do I become a reservoir of wisdom for my generation and the other living generations?

47. How do I comprehend more of what I read?

48. How do I invent and implement world changing ideas?

49. How do I convince people like Thomas Leonard and John Pilzner to join me in Potential Research International?

50. How do I successfully start, build and maintain for 100 years or more an unbeatable network marketing/coaching organization that rivals the technological contribution of Bill Gates?

51. How do I learn how to program in C++ very quickly?

52. How do I learn design software quickly?

53. How do I see better other people gifts and how to use them for my and others benefit?

54. How do I discipline myself?

55. How do I gain more stamina and agility and energy than I have ever had in my life and know it?

56. How do I finish what I start?

57. How do I control my thoughts in the face of great fear?

58. How can I have more money than I know what to do with?

59. How can I have a genuine smile on my face most of the time?

60. How do I find the security to break away from myself to give some of myself to my family?

61. How do I practically eliminate fear from my life?

62. Who is God?

63. What does God know about me that I don’t?

64. Is what God knows about me that I don’t good or bad?

65. Does God want me to be rich?

66. Does God want His children to succeed in this life as well as the next?

67. How do I keep my house clean?

68. How do I get a house?

69. How do I solidify my resolve to be rich and successful or die, whichever comes first?

70. How do I shut out all the voices of doubt?

71. How can I become a guru like Tony Robbins?

72. How can I meet the greatest thinkers alive today and pick their brains for valuable and useful success-making thoughts and ideas?

73. How do I own all my time?

74. How do I overcome all the negative programming, victim mentality, and other skeletal garbage of my past?

75. How do I get my wife to be a support to me instead of a burden?

76. How can my wife and I work together synergistically for each other’s benefit and our children’s?

77. How do I become a great and clear communicator?

78. What will it take to be a respected writer, speaker, leader on the local, national, world, and historical levels.

79. How do I overcome the belief that I am genetically unlikable?

80. What technologies could I create that would make the answers to all these questions be answered 75% more easily?

81. What technologies out there will help me to be better quicker?

82. How can I get and process information as fast or faster than the best information processors out there?

83. What genius do I have?

84. How do I tap my genius?

85. How do I create genius?

86. What is the next thing I should do?

87. What is the most important thing that I could do right now in my life?

88. What would I be best at?

89. How do I lose stage fright?

90. How can I do anything I want?

91. What is my most likable quality?

92. What books should I read first?

93. Which great people of the past would work best for me as my hero?

94. Are there people out there today that could help me answer all the above questions if I got the guts to start talking to other people about what is important to me?

95. How do I believe that what I think and what I say is important? As important as anyone else’s thoughts or words?

96. How do I learn to draw from memory and from sight?

97. How do I become a gifted artist?

98. What is the meaning of my life?

99. How do I stop worrying if the way I do things is the optimal way to do something and just damn do it?

100. How do I free myself from fear, self-criticism, worry, hate, anger, feelings of rejection perceived and real?

More Novel Ideas

What do I want to write a novel about?

I want my novel to be about ... my story. I want it to reflect my concern of the true reality of this existence since I am now unsure whereas I used to think I had the answers. I want it to reflect the idea of a person who thought he was something special and then found out he wasn't particularly special and may be quite broken. Of course I'd like the story to have a happy ending because that is how I want my story to be.

I just want my story to be compelling for ME to write. I want to feel passionate and even a little, if not a lot, frightened about writing it. I want it to offend some people and to inspire most people.

It has to be something akin to a battling your dragon or inner demon story. People should both love the character like I love myself and loathe the character like I loathe myself while wanting the character to triumph.

For me I want to write a story which could actually be talking about the possible nature of reality even if I am writing sci-fi/fantasy.

How do I want people to respond to my novel (besides making me the second person to become a billionaire from writing a book and creating a theme park and a series of movies around it)?

Should my story be a coming of age story or should it be more like Vanilla Sky, The Matrix, Memento, etc.