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For the past couple of days now, I've wanted to try my hand at writing again. I've been trying to come up with an outline, characters, and settings in my head. However, my mind changes easily and quickly.. I still don't have a basic idea of what I want to do. I just know that I want to try to write.

I have such a difficult time writing for female characters. Being a guy, it's hard to get into a girl's mind. To get an accurate picture, I'd have to model the characters I make on people I know in reality... or on those female characters I've read in stories before.

I guess the question is.. how do you make a character seem believable? Or likeable? It's probably something that would be answered if I took a creative writing class, but I like to think about it myself. I need to challenge myself on this. I've never finished any of the stories I've written. Halfway through writing them, they begin to seem too long, too weird, too silly, too strange.. well, the list goes on.

For once I'd like to finish a story and be proud of it.