From Boring To Interesting

If I hear one more complaint, like “it’s boring”, I will explode and blast my fragile good girl image to pieces. I am not afraid of explosions, but I am wary of the consequences since I have to clean up the mess, rehabilitate my reputation, and extinguish the fire of self doubt.

I think it is because of prevalence of social media. Nowadays everybody has a higher standard for “being interesting”. “How to make this more interesting?” I am asked very often. I am supposed to solve this problem for one after another.

I guess I just have to accept the fact that I am a disappointment. Admit to it. You know when I was young, my two narcissistic parents wanted me to be the solver for their relationship problems. I was supposed to bring liveliness to the family life, be pretty and obedient, be praised by others to boost my parents’ image, be a good student in school, be blamed on if something went wrong, be cheerful despite living among the narcissistic ruins and dysfunction. And you can probably guess I was such a total disappointment to my ultra narcissistic parents and countless narcissistic relatives. I was sulky, surly, withdrawn. I hated my parents and their flying monkeys.

Well, anyway, coming back to writing. How to make a writing more interesting? I don’t know. If I really know the answer, I would have written much better posts.

Adding A Hook

I gave this advice before, but it is easy said than done. People would ask me for ideas to connect irrelevant hooks.

Being Philosophical

Adding a quote can probably make it better, but it has to be a relevant quote. It is strange that whenever one is desperate to find a relevant quote, one ends up getting all kinds of irrelevant quotes.

Contrast And Comparison

Although I am an immigrant and a person who lives in two cultures, I don’t do contrast or comparison very well. I wonder why. I am supposed to be immersed in contrast and comparison every minute of my life, but still I can’t make this into my writing.

Details And More Details

Actually most details are boring details. And interesting details are often hidden behind a mountain of boring details.

Beginning And Ending

I’ve spent so much time on beginnings and ending. Despite the effort, often I get disappointing beginnings and endings.

Connecting

I think connecting is the most crucial element in making things more interesting. Think about it. If I can connecting every character in my stories with my real life observations, I can come up with much more interesting characters. However I often cannot. I don’t understand why. I’ve met and observed many people, but somehow I can’t connect it very well with my writing.

I’ve dreamed about many things in a non-English fashion–as a non-native speaker, this is inevitable. However I can’t connect my dreams with my writing.

I’ve had emotional moments before, but I can’t really connect those moments with my writing. I wish I know why.