I was bored again
Plot-debating ...
So right now I'm feeling kind of torn. The beginning of Wreckage is pretty much what I want it to be ... except I have this great idea for a summary ("great" ... well, it's OK) and now I don't know if I want to switch to first person.
I'm following Lily anyway, and sometimes Lily-first-person just sounds melodramatic to me. So she's a teenage girl, I'm sure she's allowed some melodrama. But I'm not sure how mature I want the story to be - it's definitely more than Marauder pranks and falling in love - and I'm not sure how the tone would affect it. I write both OK and it's not like one's harder to me. Some descriptions and stuff are easier in third person because you can take a break from your character and then come back, instead of seeing everything through their eyes ... but on the other hand, some flaws in characters are easier to see in the first person. I don't want Lily to be perfect.
I just got an awesome review (go check out the Hufflepuff reviewing circle, because I'll give you like 500 words of feedback and love you forever) about a first-person story and how I stuck with only what the narrator knows, not giving away things that they couldn't possibly guess, which sort of helps with keeping the plot a mystery ... but still not so good because everything has to be "thought out" in Lily's head and that means I have to come up with more red herrings. Not that I don't like to do so anyway ...
See, I had this sort of lame idea a while back about the seven deadly (not dadly; stupid spelling) sins and assigning each of them to a character (sort of typical cliched stuff: Sirius = lust; Peter = gluttony). It helped shape two of my OCs, which means that now I have to figure out how to make more OCs believable so it isn't the total Lily-has-two-best-friends-who-date-the-Marauders. One of them starts out dating Sirius, yeah, but they break up for plot reasons (I love thinking I have a plot) and Lily's tutoring her, so that's how she comes in to be one of the seven. So I sort of put it aside, but now that I'm plotting out my story I'm seeing how it can fit back in. So this awesome summary?
The people who loved me most and most influenced my seventh year were great, except for the fact that the embodied six of the seven deadly sins: Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath and envy. But me? I was pretty perfect.
Except not so laaaaaaaame. Basically, I'd make it even more clear that she was prideful by her specifically calling other people out on their faults. Of course, she'd see the good in people because she's still a nice character and I don't want to murder canon, but it's hard to be observant on one side and not - at least internally - notice the bad points.
I don't foresee ever wanting to switch points of view with this plot anyway, so I wouldn't all of a sudden follow James around - this is definitely Lily-centric. I'd have to rewrite the first 8000 words, which wouldn't be so bad. I still have a week of nothing until I do anything related to school (two weeks Charge Ahead + one week newspaper crap + the really long weekend after that in which could devote even more time to writing). But I don't know.
ON THE OTHER OTHER HAND, my other WIP is in first person and it changes POV, which I don't want to repeat (it's kind of icky to change POV, but I felt it was best for that story ... which is now totally wrecked because canon ended so happily). But if I go back to writing it, I'd want the experience between the two to be vastly different, so I could write whichever POV I felt like writing.
On the more decisive side, I did find some interesting things in the challenge section (Greek tragedy! Sort of goes with my plot, and even more with the pride thing; pride = my favorite human flaw), and some even more interesting things on Postsecret, so now the Marauders have subplots to follow and I have more interweaving to plan. Yay!
As for posting, because I don't want this post to ever end and force me to go to bed, I think it'd be way cool if I could finish up a couple more chapters before September, and then post them once a week and sort of dabble along until I got some more writing time. But I'm terrible about sticking to a schedule (I LOVE making them, but once it's set, I sort of slide and readjust it, and it's probably more fun readjusting than planning in the first place, so perhaps I do it subconsciously ...) so it'd be cool to go back to my carefree days and just sort of post whenever I wrote, and then get that rush of writing done when I realized my reviewers were waiting. =P Yep, because I'm sure I'll have a lot of reviewers. But it would leave my plot more open to suggestion. So maybe this isn't on the more decisive side.
So right now I'm feeling kind of torn. The beginning of Wreckage is pretty much what I want it to be ... except I have this great idea for a summary ("great" ... well, it's OK) and now I don't know if I want to switch to first person.
I'm following Lily anyway, and sometimes Lily-first-person just sounds melodramatic to me. So she's a teenage girl, I'm sure she's allowed some melodrama. But I'm not sure how mature I want the story to be - it's definitely more than Marauder pranks and falling in love - and I'm not sure how the tone would affect it. I write both OK and it's not like one's harder to me. Some descriptions and stuff are easier in third person because you can take a break from your character and then come back, instead of seeing everything through their eyes ... but on the other hand, some flaws in characters are easier to see in the first person. I don't want Lily to be perfect.
I just got an awesome review (go check out the Hufflepuff reviewing circle, because I'll give you like 500 words of feedback and love you forever) about a first-person story and how I stuck with only what the narrator knows, not giving away things that they couldn't possibly guess, which sort of helps with keeping the plot a mystery ... but still not so good because everything has to be "thought out" in Lily's head and that means I have to come up with more red herrings. Not that I don't like to do so anyway ...
See, I had this sort of lame idea a while back about the seven deadly (not dadly; stupid spelling) sins and assigning each of them to a character (sort of typical cliched stuff: Sirius = lust; Peter = gluttony). It helped shape two of my OCs, which means that now I have to figure out how to make more OCs believable so it isn't the total Lily-has-two-best-friends-who-date-the-Marauders. One of them starts out dating Sirius, yeah, but they break up for plot reasons (I love thinking I have a plot) and Lily's tutoring her, so that's how she comes in to be one of the seven. So I sort of put it aside, but now that I'm plotting out my story I'm seeing how it can fit back in. So this awesome summary?
The people who loved me most and most influenced my seventh year were great, except for the fact that the embodied six of the seven deadly sins: Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath and envy. But me? I was pretty perfect.
Except not so laaaaaaaame. Basically, I'd make it even more clear that she was prideful by her specifically calling other people out on their faults. Of course, she'd see the good in people because she's still a nice character and I don't want to murder canon, but it's hard to be observant on one side and not - at least internally - notice the bad points.
I don't foresee ever wanting to switch points of view with this plot anyway, so I wouldn't all of a sudden follow James around - this is definitely Lily-centric. I'd have to rewrite the first 8000 words, which wouldn't be so bad. I still have a week of nothing until I do anything related to school (two weeks Charge Ahead + one week newspaper crap + the really long weekend after that in which could devote even more time to writing). But I don't know.
ON THE OTHER OTHER HAND, my other WIP is in first person and it changes POV, which I don't want to repeat (it's kind of icky to change POV, but I felt it was best for that story ... which is now totally wrecked because canon ended so happily). But if I go back to writing it, I'd want the experience between the two to be vastly different, so I could write whichever POV I felt like writing.
On the more decisive side, I did find some interesting things in the challenge section (Greek tragedy! Sort of goes with my plot, and even more with the pride thing; pride = my favorite human flaw), and some even more interesting things on Postsecret, so now the Marauders have subplots to follow and I have more interweaving to plan. Yay!
As for posting, because I don't want this post to ever end and force me to go to bed, I think it'd be way cool if I could finish up a couple more chapters before September, and then post them once a week and sort of dabble along until I got some more writing time. But I'm terrible about sticking to a schedule (I LOVE making them, but once it's set, I sort of slide and readjust it, and it's probably more fun readjusting than planning in the first place, so perhaps I do it subconsciously ...) so it'd be cool to go back to my carefree days and just sort of post whenever I wrote, and then get that rush of writing done when I realized my reviewers were waiting. =P Yep, because I'm sure I'll have a lot of reviewers. But it would leave my plot more open to suggestion. So maybe this isn't on the more decisive side.