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Mar 31, 2017 19:43

I don't know if this works as an entire outline (I mean, I've left off the context etc, this is very much the bullet points) for Act One of Tourist's Guide but it's a better bare bones than I had:

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wolfy_writing March 31 2017, 19:03:32 UTC
It sounds interesting! Do you have an idea of who's death?

Is there a reason you fear multiple POV wouldn't work? I find if it gets confusing, it helps to structure it into a regular pattern.

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apiphile April 3 2017, 16:25:21 UTC
Ya, Katherine is going to kill one of the other genius loci in a power move (because it's a lifetime appointment) LAMPSHADE-INSPIRED by Highlander, probably.

Ehhh, maybe I'll end up over-focussing on one character or another, which is what happened in Soft Inheritance (basically almost every chapter was from Amara's PoV to the point where Levi and Margaret seemed extraneous), and my tactic from Heavy, where everyone had a PoV except the villain because he was so much of a human black hole, wouldn't work here because I'm trying to keep both Ed and later Bodge (and basically all of the Born Movers) completely... other. Ed less so, but basically...

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wolfy_writing April 3 2017, 16:52:49 UTC
Nice!

Ah. Yeah, that would make organizing complicated. Do you have certain characters who you particularly want to be POV in certain sections? If so, you could look it over and see if there's a pattern.

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