Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats. Oh wait, I think that's the problem.
Firstly, I changed my layout! Yay for a change of pace. It'd been like a year and a half, seriously.
Secondly, people are extremely silly. Like a lot. Indeed.
Thirdly! I am having horrible horrible problems finishing this outline for a book I am planning to write, and I want to get the outline done before school starts again so I can concentrate on stupid teenagerly things like school work and boys, and also so I can do the sort of writing that keeps me entertained during class. That way, I'll have an outline for November but I won't have to try to think too logically during school. BUT I CANNOT FINISH THE OUTLINE. It is very frustrating, because I thought I knew where the story was going to go, but then I realized that I in fact had two distinct options with many variables each. That's the problem with starting with a character and then building the story around them.
You see, the main character of this story, one Jackson Fisk Neve, has a pretty depressing life for the first part of the book. I mean, there's nothing particularly wrong with it, other than the fact that he has to make his living playing piano, which he hates, rather than his beloved violin. But he lives next door to this girl, who has been growing slowly closer to him for quite some time, and it's fairly apparent they like each other. But Jackson hasn't been able to stop thinking about this girl he met at a concert a few months ago, even though he didn't get her name. Now, of course, he really really regrets that.
Well, to cut out a large part of the story, he meets the concert girl again, whose name is Mags, by the way, and she sets up a date with him. Unfortunately for him, girl-next-door Amelia has recently kissed him. Choices, my friends, there is not much I have in common with this Jackson character but we both do hate choices (and like Bach, but that has nothing to do with anything).
So he sort of has these two girls to choose from, because he is a genuinely nice guy who doesn't want to hurt either of them and couldn't bear to go behind their backs. So he has a bit of an issue, and so do I, because I can honestly see it going either way, so I can't finish the story. He could end up with Mags, who is spontaneous and fun and compelling even if she is super skinny; or he could end up with Amelia, who is sweet and considerate and a good cook even if her little brother who is also friends with Jackson really doesn't want the two of them to go out.
Or I guess he could end up without either of them, but I can't see any way to do that that wouldn't make the whole story pointless, cliched, ambiguous, or overly moralistic.
I confess I may also be having a problem choosing how to end the story because Jackson's situation mirrors one I was recently in (or possibly still am in). I wrote this problem out for him, and roughly three days later, there I was stuck with the same problem; so I obviously couldn't choose for him because that would have influenced my own choice in real life, which I was (and still am a little) reluctant to do.
Help? Advice? Anyone? It's driving me crazy to be stuck like this on a friggin' outline.
Secondly, people are extremely silly. Like a lot. Indeed.
Thirdly! I am having horrible horrible problems finishing this outline for a book I am planning to write, and I want to get the outline done before school starts again so I can concentrate on stupid teenagerly things like school work and boys, and also so I can do the sort of writing that keeps me entertained during class. That way, I'll have an outline for November but I won't have to try to think too logically during school. BUT I CANNOT FINISH THE OUTLINE. It is very frustrating, because I thought I knew where the story was going to go, but then I realized that I in fact had two distinct options with many variables each. That's the problem with starting with a character and then building the story around them.
You see, the main character of this story, one Jackson Fisk Neve, has a pretty depressing life for the first part of the book. I mean, there's nothing particularly wrong with it, other than the fact that he has to make his living playing piano, which he hates, rather than his beloved violin. But he lives next door to this girl, who has been growing slowly closer to him for quite some time, and it's fairly apparent they like each other. But Jackson hasn't been able to stop thinking about this girl he met at a concert a few months ago, even though he didn't get her name. Now, of course, he really really regrets that.
Well, to cut out a large part of the story, he meets the concert girl again, whose name is Mags, by the way, and she sets up a date with him. Unfortunately for him, girl-next-door Amelia has recently kissed him. Choices, my friends, there is not much I have in common with this Jackson character but we both do hate choices (and like Bach, but that has nothing to do with anything).
So he sort of has these two girls to choose from, because he is a genuinely nice guy who doesn't want to hurt either of them and couldn't bear to go behind their backs. So he has a bit of an issue, and so do I, because I can honestly see it going either way, so I can't finish the story. He could end up with Mags, who is spontaneous and fun and compelling even if she is super skinny; or he could end up with Amelia, who is sweet and considerate and a good cook even if her little brother who is also friends with Jackson really doesn't want the two of them to go out.
Or I guess he could end up without either of them, but I can't see any way to do that that wouldn't make the whole story pointless, cliched, ambiguous, or overly moralistic.
I confess I may also be having a problem choosing how to end the story because Jackson's situation mirrors one I was recently in (or possibly still am in). I wrote this problem out for him, and roughly three days later, there I was stuck with the same problem; so I obviously couldn't choose for him because that would have influenced my own choice in real life, which I was (and still am a little) reluctant to do.
Help? Advice? Anyone? It's driving me crazy to be stuck like this on a friggin' outline.