Bad, bad stories
Nov. 20th, 2005 12:36 pmI can see a disturbing new trend in my story generatng process going on there (no, not that one). An idea pops up, usually a character or two doing something, or a particular setting or... you know.
So I consider it, tell it that it doesn't have enough to be a story so go away. And it does. Then I can get back to whatever I'm supposed to working on.
Except lately, they've been meeting up with other ideas behind my back and they come back. "Look, we're more developed." And so they are. In fact, often they're a combination of old idea that I'm fond of but won't go anywhere and a fresh, new, attractive idea.
Lethal, and very appealing.
Fortunately, I can still fall back "You're not being written until you have an end".
It makes it hard to rewrite one novel when a new storyline & set of characters is trying to unfold though.
So I consider it, tell it that it doesn't have enough to be a story so go away. And it does. Then I can get back to whatever I'm supposed to working on.
Except lately, they've been meeting up with other ideas behind my back and they come back. "Look, we're more developed." And so they are. In fact, often they're a combination of old idea that I'm fond of but won't go anywhere and a fresh, new, attractive idea.
Lethal, and very appealing.
Fortunately, I can still fall back "You're not being written until you have an end".
It makes it hard to rewrite one novel when a new storyline & set of characters is trying to unfold though.
