Writing woes...
Mar. 18th, 2010 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritcontinue apace. I have nothing in mind for a short story, and the new novelthing is trying to go "funny" on me without me wanting it to because it deals with Dark! Serious! Issues! that are Not!Humorous!At!All.
Which may be why it's trying to go funny on me. My brain is wired to be contrarian, and it's entirely possible that it's sick and damn tired of smacking the snot out of my characters and wants them to have fun for once.
Which would be fine.
In another story.
But I have a dragon snarking at the humans, the humans are more frustrated at the situation than afraid of it, and my entire plot has come down around my ears in a welter of THIS DOESN'T WORK IN THIS GENRE. Not that I'm particularly stuck in genre conventions per se and as a general rule, but High Fantasy does have its Rulebook and I can't do this the way it seems to want to shake out, dammit.
So. Clearly. I need to raise the stakes. What is Brock more afraid of than losing his Dad?
And no. "Getting married" is not an acceptable answer. It's the funny answer, but it's the wrong answer when his Dad is lying there, slowly dying of dragon venom poisoning.
You know... *ponders* I could save the Dad and then have him abdicate the throne. Run off and marry the Head of Protocol or something as he figures out what's really important in life. That would be funny and get him out of the way...
Which may be why it's trying to go funny on me. My brain is wired to be contrarian, and it's entirely possible that it's sick and damn tired of smacking the snot out of my characters and wants them to have fun for once.
Which would be fine.
In another story.
But I have a dragon snarking at the humans, the humans are more frustrated at the situation than afraid of it, and my entire plot has come down around my ears in a welter of THIS DOESN'T WORK IN THIS GENRE. Not that I'm particularly stuck in genre conventions per se and as a general rule, but High Fantasy does have its Rulebook and I can't do this the way it seems to want to shake out, dammit.
So. Clearly. I need to raise the stakes. What is Brock more afraid of than losing his Dad?
And no. "Getting married" is not an acceptable answer. It's the funny answer, but it's the wrong answer when his Dad is lying there, slowly dying of dragon venom poisoning.
You know... *ponders* I could save the Dad and then have him abdicate the throne. Run off and marry the Head of Protocol or something as he figures out what's really important in life. That would be funny and get him out of the way...
