Thursday, July 1, 2010
TO FORGET YOUDescription
Before I met you, I wondered why all the lyrics in love songs were so exaggerated : Why do lyricists create such mushy and overemotional sentences ? Why can't they just write a good melody without those melodramatic lyrics ? That is plain exarggeration.
Before I fell in love with you , i thought romance novels were just so silly : Why would a person cry for another person for hours ? How could a person wait for his lover for years ? That is plain silliness.
Before we became a couple, i though romance movies were just so stupid : How could a person love another person so deeply that it became an obsession ? How could one sacrifice so much, even to the extent of his own life, for his lover ? That is so plain stupidity .
When I realized I had fallen so deeply in love with you, I finally understood that songs, novels and movies are just reflections of life inspired by the writer's true stories .
Because when I decided to end our relationship, I realized our story mirrors a love song that U once heard, a novel you once read and a movei you once watched .
Random Info (:
-The first draft was more than 300 pages , he cut down a lot of scenes after the 3rd draft .
-The title changed a lot , from, "Our Fragments" to "Remembering You" , then to "Our Memories" , as well as , "Our Story" , and finally , "To forget you"
-He changed the name of the main characters a few times .
-The initial idea of the story was not that complicated , but he changed it after a new idea struck him . And with that . he re-wrote another 20 over pages .
-He scoured all the major locations before writing this novel .
-To write the final scene effectively , he borrowed his friend's bike , and zoomed at high speed on an empty road .
-The NTUC Fairprice where the male main character worked at , Boon Lay Shopping Centre , is a place where he worked temporary when he had just finished his O Levels . The pickpocket scene happened before , just that the thief was caught . And the reason the pickpockter gave was , "I took wrongly" .
Review
A refreshing writing style with a bittersweet love story . It will send every reader into laughter and tears . A great novel for Low Kay Hwa die hard fans . Our advice is to prepare a few box of tissues , you will need it !
Preview
Read a preview of the story at the following link ~
http://www.blogger.com/www.goodybooks.com/toforgetyou.htm
