Ideas for books

People always tell me to write about my life and how I have become the person I am today. I always tell them my life isn't that interesting. Believe me no one wants to read about my life. I am as Plain Jane as they come. Sometimes I think of myself as Jane Eyre although I was never a governess, lol, but sometimes I think I did belong in a different time period and I don't know what I would be if I did live in a different time era. I have my love of the Regency of England and the Civil War here in the United States. I wonder would I be the rich beautiful heiress or would I be the lonely slave who had no idea what it meant to be free and do all the things that I have dreamed of?

I was born, I grew up and I have lived. I can't quote the exact way that Dickens started out Oliver Twist or was it David Copperfield? I always get them confused on the opening line but he had a point. We are all born and it is up to us how we live. I have done things in my past that I am not proud of and there are some things that I am very proud of. Sometimes I find myself in my stories and I am like how did that happen? And there are times when I do intentionally put my life in the story and change the outcome so I can feel a little bit better and have a way to release my frustrations. 

When I was in college I tried to write a story of my life in college and my friends I had there but I never finished that one and then I tried to write one about how my life was different than it really was and it was much happier than what I had been through. That didn't get finished either. Then I started a story about 3 little boys who were ghosts and and a girl and her two sisters and set that one in Jefferson City, Missouri since I wanted to showcase the history of the town but that one is still left unfinished, hoping to one day see the light and become a book. The other story I started was a result of me being extremely irritated and frustrated with my parents and so I took the idea of having vampires attacking the family and the girl having to deal with the loss and leaving the town to start over again. It too is still sitting there waiting to finish telling me it's story. See the patttern?  My lastest one which is fully written but waiting to get completely revised is set in England and she is a bookstore owner, which I wanted to own my own bookstore at one time and a part of me still does, and her dealing with an egostical male, not that I have met too many of them. Most of the men I have met have been uncommitted to relationships and pretty much geeks, not that it's a totally bad thing but sometimes I wonder.

I always have ideas running through my head and thanks to a wonderful friend and fellow writer I now carry a notebook in my purse to write down the ideas when they come to me. There are a few ideas sitting there but not going very far. I have to try and stick with one and finish it and then go back and fix the others. They will stay put and maybe one day they will tell their story to me.

I did have an idea one day while watching Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with my niece. What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were zombie hunters???????????? I mean come on, it's not that far fetched. LOL. I mean if they can make Honest Abe a Vampire Hunter why not Snow White? Just an idea. Hehehehe. 

Also I know I am a writer at heart when I tell a co-worker that there could be a story written about an ice machine that turns into a monster. Not completely sure where that one would have led but it was an idea. 

That's what I love about writing and even baking. Through words or even cake or food you can express your feelings and at the same time tell some sort of story.