Recent reads

So, as any young writer does, I've been reading all of the recent best sellers in the area I want to write for. Some are good and are receiving a lot of attention but for some reason something hasn't been sitting with me on this latest craze of apoplectic writing of the future of the Untied States of America. Today I realised why. A lot of the books I am reading show that, in the future, the country will turn against itself, there will be a lot of destruction and ruins, education and life in general will be succumbed to military and war. We will be taught to not think for ourselves but rather the country, or team if you may. These books, whether they realise it or not, are declaring such destruction over such a powerful country. I just don't believe it to be true. Why are we not writing about abundance or it's strengths? Why does the government always turn bad? How come we are made to do horrible things because of lies we are fed? I just don't want to write that sort of story.

So today I put a twist on my story, I don't want it to be the same as these down-cast books. Hopeful instead of hopeless was sort of what I was going for.