Plots are always hard to express on paper

What I hate about coming up with ideas is that I never get to put it in words.

For example, my idea is to have Natsume as a farmer (this is supposed to be my story for Hilaire's contest) and Mikan suddenly gets stranded in front of his farm because her gas ran out. So she asks Natsume for help. Problem is, Mikan is an English-speaking girl, who just went to Japan for a vacation. And since Natsume didn't speak to her when she asked if he would help her, she assumed that he doesn't speak English. This amuses Natsume, so he played along. He pretended to not understand her, when in truth, he can fluently speak English, since he spent 8 years studying in America.

Somehow (I haven't thought of how yet), they worked out a deal that Mikan would stay in his farmhouse until help would come (btw, Natsume's farm is like, way far out of the main highway, so not that many cars pass through, and Mikan forgot her phone at home. How ironic).

Mikan stays at Natsume's house, without speaking one word, since it would be no use because Natsume wouldn't understand it. Natsume didn't speak either, since he wanted her to think that he didn't understand her.

Soon, Mikan falls in love with Natsume, and gives an effort on learning Japanese, so that she could communicate with him. Every now and then, Natsume would catch her holding an 'English-Japanese dictionary'. Soon, Mikan would speak little Japanese to Natsume. Words like, "Goodnight, Goodmorning, thank you, no, yes and how are you."

After a while (like, chapter 5 of the story, I guess), someone finally showed up in the farm, saying that they're there to rescue Mikan.

Mikan didn't want to go, since she has fallen in love with the raven-haired boy, but since she wasn't sure what he felt towards her, she went home, thinking that Natsume doesn't have any feelings towards her whatsoever.

Gahh! I don't know. That's the plot so far, but it'll be a hard story to write. I mean, things like,

"Hi. I'm Mikan, sorry. I ran out of gas and I was wondering if you would help me." Mikan said in English.

Yeah. Those 'she said in English/Japanese' stuff is kinda annoying.

Sigh.

Anyway! My point of this post is....

is....

To tell you that plots are hard to write!!

No. Actually, that's not my point at all.

I forgot what my point is, actually. It escaped my mind when I was writing out the plot. Unfair.

Sigh.

Yeah. I'm going to say goodbye for now.

She loves you,

Janikka