To Write, Or Not To Write...

...That is the question.

Since 4th grade, I've been writing creative short stories. I'm pretty good at it, but My ideas always stretch farther than I'm able to write. Since sometime in middle school, I've attempted who knows how many novels. The farthest I ever got was probably 5 chapters in. I attempted NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) last November and, of course, failed.

My ideas are interesting, my characters are realistic, my names are flawless, but somehow I end up getting bored or not knowing how to get from point A in the story to point B in the story; thus, I have never finished a single novel.

Maybe I shouldn't write it in order, but jump around from different parts of the story and go back and connect them all? Maybe I should push through it and suffer with some boring transitions?

It's on my bucket list to finish at least one novel. I don't care if I get it published or not, just to finish it would be awesome enough.

But I want to write something that is worthwhile. Something worth writing, something worth reading, maybe even something worth publishing. Someone I know published a book as a matter of fact, and he's using all the money he makes off of that book to donate to help stop human trafficking. I think that he is very admirable for this and if I ever do get a novel published, I plan to do the same.

Lying in bed the other night I was thinking of a story. It had different main characters, all with different strengths and flaws. It had a moral to it. It had young characters, yet mature themes. I just planned out all of my characters biographies, described what they look like to me, and named them.

But here is where I stop to wonder, would it just be another waste of time?