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Why do story ideas, plot, dialog and character advancement come to me when I'm in tired, in bed and want to sleep?
And when I have time to write the urge to create just abandons me?
And why does the plot have to be so convoluted? Oh, right... because the way the story is set up, it's only reasonable for it be complex and convoluted.
And minor characters want their own stories. SHUT UP... oh, wait... that's kind of cool...
I shouldn't write about people around the centers of power: mages and nobles and merchants. It brings politics and money and complications into the whole thing. You can't write a single thread that isn't tangled in a weave of interconnected ideas and characters and it makes my head hurt.
Maybe I'll write about a nice peasant girl, a shepherd's daughter who... wait.... DON'T FOLLOW THAT DRAGON! Oh no....
IT'S NOT MY FAULT! I'M JUST WRITING WHAT THE CHARACTERS TELL ME TO WRITE!
*sighs*
I just had to trash several hours of painstaking dialog on a scene I realized was appropriate to the characters... if they were several years older and more mature. It also failed to advance the story. I cut it and pasted it into a new folder of 'deleted scenes'. Maybe I can use them in a later story.
And don't talk to me about editing. I'd rather be dusting the ceiling than editing.
-m
And when I have time to write the urge to create just abandons me?
And why does the plot have to be so convoluted? Oh, right... because the way the story is set up, it's only reasonable for it be complex and convoluted.
And minor characters want their own stories. SHUT UP... oh, wait... that's kind of cool...
I shouldn't write about people around the centers of power: mages and nobles and merchants. It brings politics and money and complications into the whole thing. You can't write a single thread that isn't tangled in a weave of interconnected ideas and characters and it makes my head hurt.
Maybe I'll write about a nice peasant girl, a shepherd's daughter who... wait.... DON'T FOLLOW THAT DRAGON! Oh no....
IT'S NOT MY FAULT! I'M JUST WRITING WHAT THE CHARACTERS TELL ME TO WRITE!
*sighs*
I just had to trash several hours of painstaking dialog on a scene I realized was appropriate to the characters... if they were several years older and more mature. It also failed to advance the story. I cut it and pasted it into a new folder of 'deleted scenes'. Maybe I can use them in a later story.
And don't talk to me about editing. I'd rather be dusting the ceiling than editing.
-m
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