我的快樂 會回來的

5/24/2009

Tidy up my life

After I moved to the new house, I have thought that this house will be the place where I started my first novel. However, my life is always hectic, and the words are all stored in my mind now.
I have been thinking about writing my novel for a long time, but the most important element is missing. Why? I am going to write a spy novel, but what is the thing that the spy is protecting? Why do we need these spies around? My novel never got very far from the beginning because the device is not there, and I think I have read many books now that doesn't actually contain anything that is worth reading about. That is about to change.
I have found something that is worthy to protect for my novel now. I am not going to reveal it just yet, but I am going to talk about how the idea came to me after two years.
I've been reading a book about pirates lately, and there are a lot of magic in this book. However, this book just gave me an idea. The device in this book is quite interesting, and many people have used devices in their movie or their book to keep the plot interesting. In Star Wars, there's the Light Saber and Jedi. In Star Trek, there's aliens and beam me up Scotty. In Twilight, there are vampire and werewolf. Spy novels, as I know, normally consist of people from different countries trying to protect their country's interest. Famous spies from China are almost exclusively women, although there were some men who were quite smart and wriggled out important information from the other side. There was one who took the mission on when she was living with her adopted father. She seduced the adopted son and father who held the king random at the time, and destroyed the relationship between the two men. The other woman was trained by the sage and she went on and became the king's consort in her enemy's country. The third woman, whose beauty wasn't even discovered by China's emperor, was sent to a foreign country to marry the king/chief so they will not invade China. The last woman, perhaps the unlucky one, was so beautiful that the emperor had forgotten to do his work for the country. She died in front of the emperor because the soldiers believed that it was her fault that the emperor was incompetent. The four most beautiful women in China were not only fair in face, they were smart, calculating, diplomatic, talented young women in their respective time and countries. The circumstances may be different, but their story make them immortal.
I will come back and write my story. I have tidied up my room, and I have tidies up my life.