writing ugh
Feb. 21st, 2018 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2EGyrVB
listen i know we just all got done roasting Rian “That’s Not A Plot Twist You Just Fucking Lied” Johnson over needing there to be conflict in every scene but uh
this damn mammoths novel is suffering from a lack of conflict. i mean, i introduce that the heroine wants something in the first scene, she wants to find out a thing, and then i introduce the larger quest, that she wants to find out the background reason for a thing, and she’s gonna have to go on a journey to find someone who knows how to fix the thing, and that’s fine, but like
that’s not conflict, she just wants things to go back the way they were. and like. she can get that, and can have her goals change along the way, now she wants things to go back how they were only better, with better stuff, and so on.
but like.
all the other stories i’ve ever written have involved a shitload of angst is what i’m saying and there’s no angst in that and i don’t know how to make there be.
also nobody has a sword and nobody, so far in any of the plotting, is going to have to do any Badly Injured Yet Persevering kind of tropes, and nobody’s really set up for any Mutual Pining They Don’t Know Is Mutual. And also I’ve designed this culture so that they’d be pretty nonchalant about Bedsharing so that’s not gonna have any impact.
I mean, I can introduce some antagonists maybe, get some violence into it somewhere or other so there are Bad Guys or at least Guys Whose Motivations Are Incompatible So They Have To Fight About It because all my attempts to write plain Evil have not worked out in the past, but.
Sigh.
(Your picture was not posted)
listen i know we just all got done roasting Rian “That’s Not A Plot Twist You Just Fucking Lied” Johnson over needing there to be conflict in every scene but uh
this damn mammoths novel is suffering from a lack of conflict. i mean, i introduce that the heroine wants something in the first scene, she wants to find out a thing, and then i introduce the larger quest, that she wants to find out the background reason for a thing, and she’s gonna have to go on a journey to find someone who knows how to fix the thing, and that’s fine, but like
that’s not conflict, she just wants things to go back the way they were. and like. she can get that, and can have her goals change along the way, now she wants things to go back how they were only better, with better stuff, and so on.
but like.
all the other stories i’ve ever written have involved a shitload of angst is what i’m saying and there’s no angst in that and i don’t know how to make there be.
also nobody has a sword and nobody, so far in any of the plotting, is going to have to do any Badly Injured Yet Persevering kind of tropes, and nobody’s really set up for any Mutual Pining They Don’t Know Is Mutual. And also I’ve designed this culture so that they’d be pretty nonchalant about Bedsharing so that’s not gonna have any impact.
I mean, I can introduce some antagonists maybe, get some violence into it somewhere or other so there are Bad Guys or at least Guys Whose Motivations Are Incompatible So They Have To Fight About It because all my attempts to write plain Evil have not worked out in the past, but.
Sigh.
(Your picture was not posted)
