Jane Austen is considered one of the absolute greatest writer of love stories. Women, even to this day, fawn all of character like Mr. Darcy, and many more. Why, then, was Jane Austen notorious for being alone? How can one write so far out of their realm of reality and have it be so convincing? I'm not sure that I would be able to write about being alone, because I've never really been alone. But maybe because I have been in love so many times, I would be complete rubbish at writing love stories. Maybe we are not capable of writing something so close to our hearts. That would explain a lot as to why Victoria gave us this assignment in the first place. Because she says that if we are always writing about ourselves and only things that we know to be true, then we probably won't get past the 1/3 mark of a novel. I don't know if that's true because I've never attempted to write a novel. My literary writing skills consist of the 140 characters I'm given on twitter and the emails I write to my professors when I'm sick in bed. Not all of us are born to be writers, but I feel like I was. I only have one problem.
What the hell am I going to write about? My life? Jane Austen?
Or, am I going to be one of those great writers who are able to completely evacuate their own senses to write about things so beyond their wildest dreams? Jane Austen never married and really only had one suitor throughout her life, but someone managed to create some of the most notable romances of all time.
If only we all could have been so lucky to be able to conjure up Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
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