Writing books...err...books on writing fiction or novels can be helpful to get one's story in perspective. At least so I thought. So after randomly flipping through a few sections, I realize that I majorly screwed myself over. *sigh* all that work down the drain.
I feel that the only way to get a handle on this story that I've been working on and off on for the better part of 4 years is to toatlly trash it. Well at least, that's waht I feel like doing. I don't think that I would ever get rid of all the work that I did on it though.
It just frustrates me that I've written myself into yet another stand still, and I haven't even completed one of the chapters in my story yet! I need help! MAJOR HELP! I wonder if I will ever succeed with this story. Or maybe its God's way of telling me to put it back in the vault and to wait to work on it later.
They say a writer can write their way out of a problem, well maybe no writer has ever come across a problem as big as mine before....because there is no way in hell I can clean up the mess that is my story!
You're probably thinking that I'm exaggerating and making my problem seem bigger than it actually is, well it's sad but definately true.
My first and biggest problem is the fact that my main character isn't even fully developed, and for that fact, neither is the antagonist.
The other characters, the supporting characters are better developed and rounded characters than my MC's! It's almost making me question if he's supposed to be my MC or if one of the other characters is meant to play the part.
Second, I can't stick with one form of point of view. At the beginning its at an omniscent view, than later on at the MC's view, and only a few pages later written in the point of view of one of my supporting characters! It's enough like musical characters to drive the readers crazy!
Though strangely the few people who have read it, don't mention that as a problem. So maube they like seeing through the multiple character perspectives? Well it gives me something to think about at least.
Come to think about it, if the main character wasn't developed well enought in the story the people who've read it would have said something, right?
Well maybe I've just been worrying over nothing. Or maybe I'm just more critical of my own writing because I have a higher standard for myself. I guess I should be easier on myself in the future.
 Minyaagar · Mon Nov 14, 2005 @ 10:52pm · 0 Comments |
