Writing Updates
February 2nd 2009 02:36
Not a ton of progress this week; I've been extremely busy with schoolwork which left me little time for personal writing.
I started on the next chapter of Winds of Change, which goes back to Old Haven with Maria and her friends. She's still trying to cope with the departure of Philippe, her husband, and relies greatly on her friends to help her find her strength. The most interesting incident in this chapter is a dream sequence that Maria has in which she's looking for Philippe. Quite honestly, the stuff at home isn't as exciting as what's happening with Philippe--it will pick up eventually, but I hate having to build up the tension; I wish I could just skip to the good stuff. But the good stuff will only be good after it's been built up. Besides, there's a lot of good characterization in this chapter.
In Visions of Destiny, the build-up thing is worse than Winds; as in it takes a lot longer for things to start happening, but when they do they'll be even more sudden and shocking than in Winds. Most of the exciting action sequences in Visions happen toward the end, after a very long time of weaving together subtle political and personal schemes, as well as setting up some carefully timed and executed misinterpretations on the characters' parts.
To explain the difference between Winds and Visions in terms of excitement, let me use a metaphor. In Winds, it's like rolling hills and mountains: it starts off going slowly up a shallow hill, then goes down for a bit, then spikes up a taller hill, levels off for a while, then hits a bunch of high, jagged mountains, and then slowly goes back down. With Visions, it's like ascending up a slight, long slope for a long time, then plunging suddenly into a ravine, then up Mount Everest, ending at the peak of the mountain. So Winds may be more exciting throughout whereas Visions is a lot of characterization, exposition, and building, but it ends with a huge bang. With several slightly smaller bangs to accompany it. It's tough to stick with the plan and not just go straight to the action, but it's so much more worth it--as a writer and a reader--to stick through the slowly building tension to get to the point where the tension bursts.
Writing is coming along steadily, but very, very slowly due to school. Hopefully I'll get a lot of writing done during spring break which is in March. Good night everyone!
I started on the next chapter of Winds of Change, which goes back to Old Haven with Maria and her friends. She's still trying to cope with the departure of Philippe, her husband, and relies greatly on her friends to help her find her strength. The most interesting incident in this chapter is a dream sequence that Maria has in which she's looking for Philippe. Quite honestly, the stuff at home isn't as exciting as what's happening with Philippe--it will pick up eventually, but I hate having to build up the tension; I wish I could just skip to the good stuff. But the good stuff will only be good after it's been built up. Besides, there's a lot of good characterization in this chapter.
In Visions of Destiny, the build-up thing is worse than Winds; as in it takes a lot longer for things to start happening, but when they do they'll be even more sudden and shocking than in Winds. Most of the exciting action sequences in Visions happen toward the end, after a very long time of weaving together subtle political and personal schemes, as well as setting up some carefully timed and executed misinterpretations on the characters' parts.
To explain the difference between Winds and Visions in terms of excitement, let me use a metaphor. In Winds, it's like rolling hills and mountains: it starts off going slowly up a shallow hill, then goes down for a bit, then spikes up a taller hill, levels off for a while, then hits a bunch of high, jagged mountains, and then slowly goes back down. With Visions, it's like ascending up a slight, long slope for a long time, then plunging suddenly into a ravine, then up Mount Everest, ending at the peak of the mountain. So Winds may be more exciting throughout whereas Visions is a lot of characterization, exposition, and building, but it ends with a huge bang. With several slightly smaller bangs to accompany it. It's tough to stick with the plan and not just go straight to the action, but it's so much more worth it--as a writer and a reader--to stick through the slowly building tension to get to the point where the tension bursts.
Writing is coming along steadily, but very, very slowly due to school. Hopefully I'll get a lot of writing done during spring break which is in March. Good night everyone!
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