Where’s my big break? Brainstorming Ideas.

My friends always tell me, “Every writer always has his/her big break: that best seller. That one plot that once you write you just can’t stop until the story is finished.” What’s my big idea that’s going to get me to write stories which are longer than short stories? I’ve wanted to stay away from love and sex because it’s been done time and again. I want to still write about a relevant topic, but something different other than relationships for the longest book I want to try to get published. Of course since it’s going to be my “big break,” it won’t be published until I’m completed with it and it will take a while.

I’ve talked to friends saying I want to write a book about traveling, but since I can’t truly travel right now, I’d have to surf Web sites about places which isn’t the same thing as actually experiencing the site, I can’t write a traveling best seller. Then again, if I were truly a good writer, I guess I could use my imagination.

What the hell is my big idea?! #thinkingcap

I can’t help but think it has to do with this long distance fantasy that I keep dreaming about every night, ending the dream with “What if” we were to ever have the chance to properly be together? Are my dreams trying to tell me something, that’s why I keep having the same dream over and over? Sometimes I don’t want to have this dream because it breaks my heart knowing what’s happening in reality, but whenever I have this dream it makes me happy.

I could still write about traveling since it is after all a long distance “relationship” – ish, whatever it is. I know we’re trying to be friends right now, I do want to stay friends. I don’t want to let something that didn’t have the possibility of working out in the first place to ruin a good friendship. I want to have a good outlook about us, but, with where we are, I don’t know what to think. The other reason why I don’t want to write about love, sex, and relationships for my best seller is because it would be very personal for me [and him] and it would be hard to finish writing the book without bawling my eyes out because in reality, let’s face the fact it’s not looking like it will work out right now when we can’t even see each other once for more than a day or two. I will always wonder “what if” with this if we ever had the chance. It will be gnawing the back of my mind like crazy if I have to move on with someone else.

Is this really my big break? I’ve got to keep thinking.

I was joking about this but I said to some people what if I wrote a book about humanity? I could do so many things with that but I’m sure some people would be offended by some things I write and I don’t like having to be careful with what I write in case it might offend someone, even though it is true about humanity. I joked what if I wrote something about politics, too. I don’t know what it would be about, though on politics.

I’m currently reading other people’s works. I finally got onto the 50 Shades of Grey bandwagon to see what all the big fuss about that book is. So far it’s alright. I like books where I finish them in one whole setting. While this book is somewhat interesting to me, I have taken breaks from reading it. To me, when I can finish a story in one whole sitting that’s truly a good book that you can’t put down. If you put it down, and are distracted, it’s not a good book to keep you into still reading it.

Maybe I need to read it more and the beginning is just like that, slow, then it will pick up the pace in the middle.

I want to write something where people can’t put down the book and they want to know what will happen next and can’t rest until they finish the book.