Unwritten

I recently read a piece of fiction based on Jim Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy, wherein Jim works for a publishing company named Enterprise and ran by Christopher Pike. Jim also publishes the ten book Captain Fine series aimed at young adults. He finds an unfinished manuscript by one Leonard H McCoy, MD, and tracks him down despite hippy-background Mr Spock's requests that he not do that.

Leonard is, to say the least, uncooperative to finish the work he stopped six years previously, and while I knew this fic had promise, I didn't anticipate how inspiring it would be.

The way the characters discuss writing, why they pursue it and how they feel about it, it made me consider for the first time in a very long time why I actually want to be a writer.

There's no doubt about it, for me. Writing has been my dream career since I was a kid, and I love how words can make you love or hate a character your previously never met. How it can light a feeling in you or make you long for something you never considered.

I lost track of it, amongst my education and transition, but I want to pick up my old ideas, shake them off and add a little more of an LGBT* spin, and write for young adults. I want believable and interesting characters of my own, and maybe I'll get there, one day. 

I can't stop thinking about the possibility of ever actually publishing a book, seriously.