3WW--Three Word Wednesday

If you're unfamiliar with 3 Word Wednesday or you're intrigued by the idea, make sure you stop by and sign up.  There's always a ton of people and lots of really interesting writing (both fiction and non).

I do have to admit that the last time I took part in 3WW, it was much easier. I had just come home from an amazing vacation, and I think any words would have worked to remind me of my trip.  This time, it's a bit harder, but I'll try to do my best.

She had never been a charming girl.  Even in kindergarten, the age where any child can coax a smile out of an adult, she had been the sullen child in a corner.  The one that never smiled, played games that made no sense to an outside observer.  No one ever asked the rules.

What some people took for rudeness was really only a solitary nature.  Content with the feast of her imagination, she needed no others.

Much like the taste of a robust wine, she caught a little on the palate of those unused to her.  But over time, you developed a taste for her.

And then the complexity of her actions made others who were more easy to understand seem bland, stale.

Really just a short character sketch.  I like the feel of it though.  I can tell that I've been reading Dashiell Hammett, it sounds like a combination of a Sam Spade novel with an edge of Thin Man to it.

She doesn't have a name yet, or much surrounding her, but I can see her starting to take shape in my mind.

Now to only find something for her to do!

My writing has a personality disorder

After stumbling upon a random tweet, I found I Write Like. . . It's a pretty cool concept.  You paste something you've written in a box and it analyzes it to tell you a famous author that you write like.  I'm not sure how accurate it is.

I was curious, so scene by scene, I analyzed my 50k in 50 Days WIP.  Here's the breakdown of authors that I write like:

• Margaret Atwood for two sections (Yeah! I love her poetry and A Handmaid's Tale. I feel more brilliant already!)
• J.K. Rowling (If I can sell books like her, I'd be more than satisfied)
• Rudyard Kipling (I've never really read anything by him, so not sure what to think about this one)
• Stephen King (No surprise here. One of my favorite authors.  The Dark Tower series is the best fantasy ever written, in my opinion)
• Isaac Asimov (I know he's a legend, and I actually own a couple of his books, but I've never read them)
• Jack London (Ugh.  I gotta say "To Build a Fire" is probably one of my least favorite things written.  But I've loved every movie version of White Fang I've seen, so that's got to count for something, right?)

Overall I was pleased.  I'm not sure what this says about my writing style.  It sounds like it's all over the place, which has me a little nervous.  But this is the first draft, so I can unify, etc on the second go-around.

Well, I'm three days in to the 50k in 50 Days challenge.  I'm really enjoying it so far and like to see my story grow each day.  Here's the first update.

3,793 words written

What I've learned about the process:
It doesn't take me as long as I feared to write 1,000 words. It's also very hard to not go back and fix the previous day's writing.

What I've learned about myself:
So far, I'm pretty sure I've written three or four things that would send me straight to Hell if I was Catholic. As I'm not, there's probably only two things.  I've also realized if this ever gets published, I'll have to use a pen name and won't be able to tell all of my family about it.

(PS--Feel free to use the button for the challenge.  That's how I killed some of the writer's block today.  I think it turned out pretty good for my first try)