Bitesized Fiction

When I was a kid, I used to want to be a doctor, then a nun, a dancer, a singer, a housemaid and then a teacher. But all these changed when I started to get into reading. It’s no secret that my first ever “idol” writer is Elizabeth Wakefield in the Sweet Valley Kids series. I love the fact that she could create worlds and weave stories — and she’s a fictional character at that. I told myself that if she could do it at such a young age, I could do it too.*

So I wrote. And wrote and wrote and wrote. From fighting weathers to fights based on real life and Sailormoon characters to too-perfect characters in a story with vampires, stolen silver and break-ups, a story that started because of my fanaticism of a certain boyband to short stories that was born because of heartache — I just wrote. Seeing words form on paper — or on screen — is simply thrilling. I loved it, I lived for it, I know I wouldn’t last a day if I don’t write.

But then a time came where I started dabbling with other things — things of technical nature — that I slowly lost the drive to write. Until I finally stopped.

Then I felt it — the itchy feeling on your hands where you want to do something. Specifically, you want to write something, but you can’t find the words to.

But I need to. So I wrote. I don’t know if I got my groove back already, but I know this time, I want to write.

The only (serious) writing activities that I have done for the past year is the little bits and pieces of additions I have made to my NaNoWriMo 2006 story, which is still not finished until now. Oh, and some Didache reflections and blog entries, but that’s about it. I’m more of a fiction person, but sometimes I feel like my pieces are too constricted to what I knew, what I felt. But I know there is so much more than that.

Bite-sized Fiction is an attempt to go beyond my writing barriers and just write. Here you will see pieces written on a whim — while riding, while watching TV, while doing something — as well as pieces fueled by a writing prompt. Anything and everything under the sun, in short, chewable pieces that won’t be too hard to read. :) I know I am not the best writer around here, and more than half of these writings may not be any good at all, but I also know that there is so much room for my writing to grow.

So I will write. Take a bite. :)