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some_stars) wrote2011-04-27 05:57 pm
some_stars) wrote2011-04-27 05:57 pm
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An upside of all this agita: I suddenly made a HUGE leap forward in planning the novel I've been thinking about for about eight months now, on and off(mostly off). As in, everything that I need to know to be able to start writing fell into place, but without spiraling into the over-planning that drains pretty much all my original fiction ideas of any spark of life.
So I need to either start working on it--which, probably not an intelligent thing to do right now--or put it out of my mind entirely until I can start working on it. I have a very strange relationship to story ideas, in which I can't start until I know a loose outline--can't, I absolutely cannot write my way into knowing what it's about, I panic--but once the idea is broken in, any further thought-without-writing just wears it flatter and flatter and then suddenly, it's dead. To mix...several metaphors. I think. The fact that the incredibly detailed worldbuilding I did back in September turned out to be largely wrong is the only reason this idea hasn't long since fizzled out.
But--solid starting points for two main, two tertiary characters, and some very spare building blocks of political/cultural/magical worldbuilding, and naming schemes, and an even more spare understanding of at least one significant plot arc, and a slightly-more-detailed mental sketch of the first scene from start to finish. These are good things to have.
Thrilling sneak peak: it's about colonialism and gender! Perhaps "thrilling" is not the right word.
So I need to either start working on it--which, probably not an intelligent thing to do right now--or put it out of my mind entirely until I can start working on it. I have a very strange relationship to story ideas, in which I can't start until I know a loose outline--can't, I absolutely cannot write my way into knowing what it's about, I panic--but once the idea is broken in, any further thought-without-writing just wears it flatter and flatter and then suddenly, it's dead. To mix...several metaphors. I think. The fact that the incredibly detailed worldbuilding I did back in September turned out to be largely wrong is the only reason this idea hasn't long since fizzled out.
But--solid starting points for two main, two tertiary characters, and some very spare building blocks of political/cultural/magical worldbuilding, and naming schemes, and an even more spare understanding of at least one significant plot arc, and a slightly-more-detailed mental sketch of the first scene from start to finish. These are good things to have.
Thrilling sneak peak: it's about colonialism and gender! Perhaps "thrilling" is not the right word.