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agilebritOMG WRITING IS HARD.
I have a beginning, and thus my Hook/Inciting Incident.
I have the 7 Points System sitting in front of me.
I also have no idea where I want this character to end up at the end of the story. Wiser, certainly. Happier/sadder? Up for grabs. Do I save his dad, or kill him dead after a try/fail cycle of epic proportions, and thus leave his unready, under-twenty-years-old head wearing the crown?
Who the hell is my villain? Do I even have a villain? I have a dragon. I'm not sure he counts. I had an idea for a villain/contagonist, but that person has yet to make an appearance (that I know of), and her entire raison d'etre has gotten lost in the noise anyway. So, obviously, I need to have someone plotting behind the scenes for my Hero's downfall. Perhaps, even, someone he trusts, someone I've already introduced. *flips through characters* Hm.
Then there's the Love Interest aspect. Remember, my Romance Bone has suffered an irreducible compound fracture. There's no way, with me writing it, that at least the middle of a Romance isn't Bad and Wrong, even if I somehow wrench a Happily Ever After for it out of my ass. But he's the Prince, and next in line for the throne, and he needs to get married. And if he doesn't actually love any of the women who are being thrown at his head, but instead has a thing for the lovely (but commoner-bred) Head of Protocol--hey, there's me, being Bad and Wrong again, but no one ever said this was going to be easy, right?
Not only that, but this is in first person. I love first person. If I could get away with writing in first person all the time, I so would. But I'm not sure it works for this particular story. At the same time, I don't particularly feel like changing it.
And scribbling this thing without an outline feels wrong. Understand (o my new readers) that I'm a Pantser rather than an Outliner. My first draft, generally, is my outline. But in this case, with a thing I'm not sure what it is just yet, not outlining seems like a Bad Idea.
CRAPPITY. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO OR WHAT HE'S FIGHTING. AAUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.
I have a beginning, and thus my Hook/Inciting Incident.
I have the 7 Points System sitting in front of me.
I also have no idea where I want this character to end up at the end of the story. Wiser, certainly. Happier/sadder? Up for grabs. Do I save his dad, or kill him dead after a try/fail cycle of epic proportions, and thus leave his unready, under-twenty-years-old head wearing the crown?
Who the hell is my villain? Do I even have a villain? I have a dragon. I'm not sure he counts. I had an idea for a villain/contagonist, but that person has yet to make an appearance (that I know of), and her entire raison d'etre has gotten lost in the noise anyway. So, obviously, I need to have someone plotting behind the scenes for my Hero's downfall. Perhaps, even, someone he trusts, someone I've already introduced. *flips through characters* Hm.
Then there's the Love Interest aspect. Remember, my Romance Bone has suffered an irreducible compound fracture. There's no way, with me writing it, that at least the middle of a Romance isn't Bad and Wrong, even if I somehow wrench a Happily Ever After for it out of my ass. But he's the Prince, and next in line for the throne, and he needs to get married. And if he doesn't actually love any of the women who are being thrown at his head, but instead has a thing for the lovely (but commoner-bred) Head of Protocol--hey, there's me, being Bad and Wrong again, but no one ever said this was going to be easy, right?
Not only that, but this is in first person. I love first person. If I could get away with writing in first person all the time, I so would. But I'm not sure it works for this particular story. At the same time, I don't particularly feel like changing it.
And scribbling this thing without an outline feels wrong. Understand (o my new readers) that I'm a Pantser rather than an Outliner. My first draft, generally, is my outline. But in this case, with a thing I'm not sure what it is just yet, not outlining seems like a Bad Idea.
CRAPPITY. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO OR WHAT HE'S FIGHTING. AAUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.
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Date: 2010-03-05 01:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-03-05 09:19 pm (UTC)