WHAT IS MY PASSION?

I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks about exactly what I want out of life. It’s funny, I love movies, I always wanted to work in film but the closest I’ve gotten to that line of work is a news station. Don’t get me wrong I like my job. I like the fact that I have gained a lot more experience since working there, but I found a great passion. Greater than directing film.

WRITING!


I love to write. I love using my very extremely vivid imagination, creating a story from nothing. With my words I create characters and places and love interests. I make emotions and even place a few of my feelings within them. Okay, so I place a lot of my feelings within them, but I can because that’s what writers do. I want my readers to feel what the characters feel. To cry when they do. To even feel that pain in their throat that the characters feel as they lose that one they love, or realize they can never turn back time.

I have discovered that my passion for films and television boosted how I write. I am a visual person, so I love when I can see what I am reading. When I can picture myself in the scene of a book. When I can capture a moment in words and literally feel the emotion searing from the page I know that this book was a great read.

I started writing in college. It began with assignments and it then branched out to poetry and short stories just for fun. I was still focused on movies though. The thing is if it were not for the scriptwriters for those shows and films that I would not feel the need to cry, be mad or laugh. The scriptwriter holds the power to make or break a show. Just like a writer holds the power to make or break a book.

Currently, I have unfinished stories that took over my mind and I am now determined to finish them. I’m making sure that I sit down and dedicate my unused time to proofing and finding a way to get my stories out to those that enjoy reading. I am more of a fiction writer. I love to create unknown beings and generate my own definitions of what they are and how they came to be. This is so I can twist and bend them to whichever direction I want them to go.

This very blog started off as a joke. I was going to critique movies that I saw and books that I read and even throw in a few personal thoughts along the way, but as you can see it’s turned into more! It is now more than I ever thought it would be. I even have blogs for my characters along the right side of the page!

Karah and some of the others have their own blogs. They even have a blog that allows them all to interact. YES! They are all me, but they are characters with their own thoughts and ways of speaking.

So, in closing, I know that it takes a lot of courage to write something and put it out into the world for others to read and either love or hate, but that is what we’re here for. We cater to those minds that love to read and experience new worlds and the thought that we as humans are not alone. That there are supernatural beings and those of other worlds. I just had the need to voice what I think and how I came to be where I am now. I hope that you all continue to read my entries and comment sometimes. And who knows perhaps one day I’ll actually post that my book is going to be published and that my imagination has paid off!



~Nikki Frierson, 2010