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Damn. I got my ass handed to me yesterday. artistically, that is. I wrote a lot, but i realized the truth behind the words that i read on a NaNo forum once. I have to paraphrase, but... "I learned that writing a 50K fantasy novel without planning any of it is impossible..."
Very true.
So i called an end to my writing day and spent the rest of it planning. I had gotten about 7 pages out, and some of it is decent, so i may use it in the restructured version. It bugs me, though, that i keep doing this. It's like i block up and start thinking about all the ways my story could be better, and then i stop wanting to write what i have. Although, really, if you could read what i wrote yesterday, you would probably agree with me. seriously. I had direction the way someone who says "i'm going east" has direction. As a result, no fewer than 5 half-wild short-haired cats ran in five directions. So, i planned. And i decided that one of my characters (or rather, one of my character ideas) from antiquity would work well in this situation.
Basically, i want the over-antagonist to have something on all my characters, so when he says jump, they have no choice. This makes them mercenaries in a sense, but dangerous mercenaries, because they're working out of self interest only as long as the antagonist shows them no exploitable weakness. Which he doesn't. Not at first.
But the way it's going in my mind, it combines a lot of elements that i'm comfortable with, and some that are relatively new. For instance, my main character is a woman. I'm curious to see how this will go, though i don't see any reason why it shouldn't be fine. I get along better with women, so maybe whatever insight or whatever will help make someone believable and sympathetic. On the other hand, i'm using a small cast because a majority of the story will take place between small pockets of civilization in a barren countryside. This gives a lot of possibility for particularly nasty (or noble) encounters, something that i'm fond of.
so that's pretty much what's going on.
Very true.
So i called an end to my writing day and spent the rest of it planning. I had gotten about 7 pages out, and some of it is decent, so i may use it in the restructured version. It bugs me, though, that i keep doing this. It's like i block up and start thinking about all the ways my story could be better, and then i stop wanting to write what i have. Although, really, if you could read what i wrote yesterday, you would probably agree with me. seriously. I had direction the way someone who says "i'm going east" has direction. As a result, no fewer than 5 half-wild short-haired cats ran in five directions. So, i planned. And i decided that one of my characters (or rather, one of my character ideas) from antiquity would work well in this situation.
Basically, i want the over-antagonist to have something on all my characters, so when he says jump, they have no choice. This makes them mercenaries in a sense, but dangerous mercenaries, because they're working out of self interest only as long as the antagonist shows them no exploitable weakness. Which he doesn't. Not at first.
But the way it's going in my mind, it combines a lot of elements that i'm comfortable with, and some that are relatively new. For instance, my main character is a woman. I'm curious to see how this will go, though i don't see any reason why it shouldn't be fine. I get along better with women, so maybe whatever insight or whatever will help make someone believable and sympathetic. On the other hand, i'm using a small cast because a majority of the story will take place between small pockets of civilization in a barren countryside. This gives a lot of possibility for particularly nasty (or noble) encounters, something that i'm fond of.
so that's pretty much what's going on.