Well, CRAP.
Apr. 30th, 2010 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritI just had a Thought, sparked by Scalzi's latest Big Idea thing.
Instead of the protag in my Zombies! story being the Dad... what if s/he's the Mom instead? How would that change the dynamic? And the ending? And the entire frakking narrative?
OH GOD I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE MY BRAIN MAKE IT STOP.
Of course, my overarching problem is that, whoever my protag is, s/he doesn't have any resources to effect a cure anyway. S/he might as well be the local garbage collector as the medical examiner, because the power is out and s/he has no way of communicating with the Outside World (s/he lives in a small town in Texas). It's hopeless from the get-go, but s/he has to try because it's hir daughter.
I'm to the point where I want to throw every single WIP I have over a bridge and follow it into the murky water below. When did writing get hard?
Instead of the protag in my Zombies! story being the Dad... what if s/he's the Mom instead? How would that change the dynamic? And the ending? And the entire frakking narrative?
OH GOD I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE MY BRAIN MAKE IT STOP.
Of course, my overarching problem is that, whoever my protag is, s/he doesn't have any resources to effect a cure anyway. S/he might as well be the local garbage collector as the medical examiner, because the power is out and s/he has no way of communicating with the Outside World (s/he lives in a small town in Texas). It's hopeless from the get-go, but s/he has to try because it's hir daughter.
I'm to the point where I want to throw every single WIP I have over a bridge and follow it into the murky water below. When did writing get hard?
