June 20, 2006
Subplots… Length… Etc.
I’m rather pleased. I’ve been working a story for about an hour and it’s showing very good possibilities for a book, or at least a long story. I like the main character and the story has humor and romance in large quantities. So far as far as romance goes I have four romances, the main character, her two sisters, and a friend of the main character. So far as humor goes I have rabid squirrels eating onions… And that’s just the beginning of the absurdity. I’m liking the story so far.
One thing that I did a bit differently on this story was focusing on “SUPLOTS!!!”(of doom) and working on making it a depthy story with a lot of needed for the story events happening instead of being a lot of filler. So there will be a lot of events happening involving pirates, princes, onions, balls, silk gowns, squirrels, adventure, pickling, briefly unrequited love, and a lot of other things I have yet to think up but hopefully will tomorrow. I’m enjoying the planning so far.
I did something special to help me write. I put together a play list of very inspirational writing music together. As it is primarily sound track music that helps me with ideas and whenever the pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack music plays it almost always helps with new characters being introduced. One of the romances and one of the subplots was inspired very directly by that music. So there is going to be a pirate captain who will play a crucial part in the story by being a principal character in one of the romances. But which, the heroine, one of the heroine’s sisters, or the heroine’s friend? Time will, hopefully, tell and hopefully I’ll be completing a book soon. I’ve been trying to work on completing a book since last week and so far I’ve developed three potential plots but of the three plots I’ve developed, the one I’m writing on, and talking about, now has the best potential to be a good book of them all. I just have to make it have enough happen in it to be a book. Which means I need to think up seventy-five plus pages worth of action. Right now, however, I think I will post this then go to bed.