More flailing about.
May. 12th, 2009 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritPart of my problem with the new novelthing is that I've been lacking a Villain.
The lady!vampire started out that way. And then, as all good characters do (and I don't mean "good" as in "good vs evil"), she evolved. She's not the villain. She doesn't want to hurt Ben and does, in fact, have his best interests--as she sees them--at heart.
Now, what she sees as his bests interests aren't, necessarily. In fact, Ben himself rather vehemently disagrees with her on what his best interests are. But this doesn't make her the Villain. This makes her the Contagonist.
The three main Plots are: Man vs Nature, Man vs Man, and Man vs Himself. I had the Man vs Nature (or the environment) conflict going pretty well there. The Man vs Himself conflict was cooking merrily along. You'd think this would be enough conflict, but it really wasn't. I still wanted to have a Man vs Man conflict as well. Some would say this is because I like throwing 90mph curveballs at Ben's head. They may very well be correct. Because I can be a bitch like that.
Anyway. Now that I've got this vampire guy who is pissed at him for being the Uppity Cur Who Doesn't Know His Place in the Natural Order of Things...my actual Plot is coming together very nicely. Instead of this just being a random collection of "How can I hurt Ben today and make him fall apart in the worst possible way" scenes, I have something that will tie them all together and have them make some semblance of narrative sense.
I've been pounding away at this thing, word-vomiting away. I've been pleased with it, but not Happy. Now? I am Happy. Maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to turn it into something Special.
In other news, we're heading out to Moab tomorrow, as the handsome and talented![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kurukami is going there. We shall visit Arches National Park, I think, and possibly take him jeeping, I'm thinking up Poison Spider Trail. The Willys is in primo condition after getting the radiator fixed, and this can be a nice little shakeout cruise for it. I may be scarce on LJ for the next couple of days.
The lady!vampire started out that way. And then, as all good characters do (and I don't mean "good" as in "good vs evil"), she evolved. She's not the villain. She doesn't want to hurt Ben and does, in fact, have his best interests--as she sees them--at heart.
Now, what she sees as his bests interests aren't, necessarily. In fact, Ben himself rather vehemently disagrees with her on what his best interests are. But this doesn't make her the Villain. This makes her the Contagonist.
The three main Plots are: Man vs Nature, Man vs Man, and Man vs Himself. I had the Man vs Nature (or the environment) conflict going pretty well there. The Man vs Himself conflict was cooking merrily along. You'd think this would be enough conflict, but it really wasn't. I still wanted to have a Man vs Man conflict as well. Some would say this is because I like throwing 90mph curveballs at Ben's head. They may very well be correct. Because I can be a bitch like that.
Anyway. Now that I've got this vampire guy who is pissed at him for being the Uppity Cur Who Doesn't Know His Place in the Natural Order of Things...my actual Plot is coming together very nicely. Instead of this just being a random collection of "How can I hurt Ben today and make him fall apart in the worst possible way" scenes, I have something that will tie them all together and have them make some semblance of narrative sense.
I've been pounding away at this thing, word-vomiting away. I've been pleased with it, but not Happy. Now? I am Happy. Maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to turn it into something Special.
In other news, we're heading out to Moab tomorrow, as the handsome and talented
kurukami is going there. We shall visit Arches National Park, I think, and possibly take him jeeping, I'm thinking up Poison Spider Trail. The Willys is in primo condition after getting the radiator fixed, and this can be a nice little shakeout cruise for it. I may be scarce on LJ for the next couple of days.