Wisteria

Hello Everyone!
I have just came up with a fantastic idea and I am so super excited!!!!!!!

When I was in 7th grade, I had an English teacher named Mr. Reynolds. He introduced us to this book club that he would be holding on Wednesdays (or Thursdays, I forget which). I decided that it could be pretty exciting and a new experience for me, so I went in as soon as I could. As it turned out, Mr.  Reynolds had a different idea for a book club. Instead of choosing different books to read with the class, he wanted us to write our own stories. Genius!
I have always thought that I was an adequate writer. I was definitely able to put together a reasonable essay. But writing a book of your own composition is so much more...powerful. I felt my like I was such a great writer. I loved the feeling of getting something exactly right!

Then, I would read something back, and you know what? Some of them sounded pretty depressed. I would like to say that my thoughts aren't depressed, but I wrote it, so I guess some of my thoughts are a little messed up.
Before you start getting a strange impression of me, let me just tell you that I am a very positive person. Sure, I can be set back a bit, but my happiness never completely fades out. You can quote me on that, for it shall always be true!

So, for a class project, we had to write either a poem or a short story, or any other kind of short writing prompt. The project was that we were going to take all of these short written pieces from the entire grade and put them together in this book. We would then sell the books for $5 and send all the money to Free The Slaves. I wrote this short story called Tommy. I had such a fun time writing it! My theme was writing about having some sort of nightmare and then suddenly realizing that it was a dream.
I then realized why I started not to like the stories I was writing. I was trying to stretch it out too much. With Tommy, I wasn't going for anything extreme, so I was able to end it appropriately where I exactly wanted it.

So, onto my glorious plan! I want to write another story! I have no idea how long it will be, whether it will be a short story or a novel, or what kind of characters I will use, but I know it will be wonderful! This blog is called Wisteria because that is what I plan to call it. I don't know why yet, but soon that may come into play. I just came up with the word when I was in the car one day. I thought it sounded like a fantastic book title, so that is why I am using it. I figure that along the way, I will have to come up with a connection to the book title, but I'm sure I can think of that.

I won't tell you what my book is about yet, but I do have a general idea. Now I just have to come up with a great name for my main character. Any ideas? It's a teenage female, if that helps in your suggestions. Her personality will be adventurous, and very woodsy, meaning that she likes to go out in the outdoors. I want the name to be perfect for this! I already have a plot idea and everything!

I should get started!