Writing, writing advice and decisions
I'm reading two books about writing.
I think I'm okay with stories that are short and sweet, but anything longer tends to fizzle out. Since I have no idea about story structure or literature theory, I've read up about it.
One book, "The heroine's journey", was very helpful to me. It was especially useful to understand why I gave up on other books, which tried to explain how to write the stereotypical "Hero's journey". The fact is, I don't like this kind of story. "Increasingly isolated hero wins on his own" is just not something I like for more than a bit of entertainment.
Instead, the "Heroine's journey" contrasts this with a plot where the hero gets increasingly networked and connected, and wins the day by bringing people together, finding compromises and working as a team. Which sounds much more like my cup of tea. Important is that the hero/heroine in the names pertains to traditional gender associations, and not to the sex of the hero.
The other book I'm reading is "Saves the Cat! Writes a novel." about story structure and beats. It is interesting and provides food for thought.
This food for thought in turn melted with different story ideas. Especially, I'm thinking about my "lesbian warrior princesses" story, and fleshing it out and plotting it. And thinking about starting NaNoWriMo with it. As a real challenge. Or whether I'll do the same thing I did last year: A mini-Nano, where I just write a 100 words minimum, each and every day in November. This target was very helpful to me last year, and 50000 words in November sounds very, very daunting.
Especially since I plan to take part in the Tatort advent calendar, which means at least one other story that has to be written and maybe edited in November (leaving a bit of time for me between writing and posting to better check it over.)
Well, there's still time to think about it. This entry was originally posted at https://turelietelconta.dreamwidth.org/8363.html. You can also comment there using OpenID.
I think I'm okay with stories that are short and sweet, but anything longer tends to fizzle out. Since I have no idea about story structure or literature theory, I've read up about it.
One book, "The heroine's journey", was very helpful to me. It was especially useful to understand why I gave up on other books, which tried to explain how to write the stereotypical "Hero's journey". The fact is, I don't like this kind of story. "Increasingly isolated hero wins on his own" is just not something I like for more than a bit of entertainment.
Instead, the "Heroine's journey" contrasts this with a plot where the hero gets increasingly networked and connected, and wins the day by bringing people together, finding compromises and working as a team. Which sounds much more like my cup of tea. Important is that the hero/heroine in the names pertains to traditional gender associations, and not to the sex of the hero.
The other book I'm reading is "Saves the Cat! Writes a novel." about story structure and beats. It is interesting and provides food for thought.
This food for thought in turn melted with different story ideas. Especially, I'm thinking about my "lesbian warrior princesses" story, and fleshing it out and plotting it. And thinking about starting NaNoWriMo with it. As a real challenge. Or whether I'll do the same thing I did last year: A mini-Nano, where I just write a 100 words minimum, each and every day in November. This target was very helpful to me last year, and 50000 words in November sounds very, very daunting.
Especially since I plan to take part in the Tatort advent calendar, which means at least one other story that has to be written and maybe edited in November (leaving a bit of time for me between writing and posting to better check it over.)
Well, there's still time to think about it. This entry was originally posted at https://turelietelconta.dreamwidth.org/8363.html. You can also comment there using OpenID.