Le sigh, if I may borrow from Zap
Jul. 31st, 2008 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethgrayThere are things on my mind which I'm not sure I'll be able to express adequately because I have teh tired and can't brain.
Anyway, I've decide to "write" this down because maybe if I do I'll actually follow through. Tomorrow I will get up and actually write down in my giant sketch book the plot for the next few projects swishing around in my brain. Maybe if do that with them they won't end up being the mediocrity that is Devil Cares. I don't know why DC sucks so hard, but it does. In fact, I'm almost to the point where I'm giving up on even posting it anymore, which would really suck because it's almost over anyway. Just one major arc left. Part of me thinks I should just keep churning it out until it's finished. It might suck, but at least I'll be done with it. On the other hand, do I want to keep putting out subpar product?
Those of you who RP with me know I am capable of crafting a narrative with far more cohesion and character depth than I currently have been with Devil Cares. Maybe it's writing more than one character in third person that's screwing me over, I don't know. In an online RPG you only have character's thoughts and feelings to worry about. True, you must react to the other character's actions, but you only need describe your own characters inside-head-going-ons. Perhaps I've gotten so used to that I've lost the talent to do it with more than one character at my disposal. If, in deed, I ever had it.
With that said, I don't want to abandon DC completely. I like the characters and the world they live in. I like the way things operate and why the supernatural elements exist. Although I've come to find out by reading Alexandra Erin's Tribe my brilliant take on magic has been done already.
Should I give up on the main storyline, I might turn Devil Cares into a kind of anthology series or something, a string of mostly unconnected stand-alones. I have this idea where the boys get turned into fairy tale/fantasy characters, for instance. A short story every now and then might suit them better. Maybe they just aren't suited for a novel-length, quasi-epic storyline.
Before anyone tells me that Devil Cares isn't *that* bad--if anyone even would--let me say I know it wouldn't seem that way to the reader. The reader doesn't know the way it should be, only the way it is. The project is just not turning out like the idea in my head says it should be. Only a writer will know what the hell I mean by that, but I don't know how else to explain it.
Alright, enough of that.
So, the order of business for tomorrow is as follows:
1) Actually put some effort into writing down major plot points
and
2) Make some sort of decision about Devil Cares
Should be easy. Right.
Anyway, I've decide to "write" this down because maybe if I do I'll actually follow through. Tomorrow I will get up and actually write down in my giant sketch book the plot for the next few projects swishing around in my brain. Maybe if do that with them they won't end up being the mediocrity that is Devil Cares. I don't know why DC sucks so hard, but it does. In fact, I'm almost to the point where I'm giving up on even posting it anymore, which would really suck because it's almost over anyway. Just one major arc left. Part of me thinks I should just keep churning it out until it's finished. It might suck, but at least I'll be done with it. On the other hand, do I want to keep putting out subpar product?
Those of you who RP with me know I am capable of crafting a narrative with far more cohesion and character depth than I currently have been with Devil Cares. Maybe it's writing more than one character in third person that's screwing me over, I don't know. In an online RPG you only have character's thoughts and feelings to worry about. True, you must react to the other character's actions, but you only need describe your own characters inside-head-going-ons. Perhaps I've gotten so used to that I've lost the talent to do it with more than one character at my disposal. If, in deed, I ever had it.
With that said, I don't want to abandon DC completely. I like the characters and the world they live in. I like the way things operate and why the supernatural elements exist. Although I've come to find out by reading Alexandra Erin's Tribe my brilliant take on magic has been done already.
Should I give up on the main storyline, I might turn Devil Cares into a kind of anthology series or something, a string of mostly unconnected stand-alones. I have this idea where the boys get turned into fairy tale/fantasy characters, for instance. A short story every now and then might suit them better. Maybe they just aren't suited for a novel-length, quasi-epic storyline.
Before anyone tells me that Devil Cares isn't *that* bad--if anyone even would--let me say I know it wouldn't seem that way to the reader. The reader doesn't know the way it should be, only the way it is. The project is just not turning out like the idea in my head says it should be. Only a writer will know what the hell I mean by that, but I don't know how else to explain it.
Alright, enough of that.
So, the order of business for tomorrow is as follows:
1) Actually put some effort into writing down major plot points
and
2) Make some sort of decision about Devil Cares
Should be easy. Right.