the bolt of lightening
Nov. 30th, 2005 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessI finally realized a few days ago what to do about my last nano novel. Like I said this time I definitely want to find a way to encourage myself and my friends to finish their nano novels (since 50K that's not even publishable lenght) last year's novel has sat around for a year doing nothing because I didn't like how I knew it would end.
Well not exactly. The bad guys in this are the teenagers but the motivation is adult and political and I always knew someone was pulling their strings. I didn't know who and it was going to be some visiting warlord but...who cares about that. That's obvious. That's not much of a mystery. I needed someone a little less obvious and someone who would hurt the main character but so far all the adults he knows are very close to him and not bad guys.
Then I realized he's a student. It struck me that one of the biggest influences on kids are teachers so it'll be a teacher he likes. Which means major rewriting of the beginning to weave this character into the story. I think maybe I shied away from that thinking it was too harry potter or something but unless I want it to be some obvious visiting warlord it'll have to be that. I toyed with the idea of it being the MC's guardian's major domo but I can't really see that person having much contact with the MC and his friends.
Thoughts?
Well not exactly. The bad guys in this are the teenagers but the motivation is adult and political and I always knew someone was pulling their strings. I didn't know who and it was going to be some visiting warlord but...who cares about that. That's obvious. That's not much of a mystery. I needed someone a little less obvious and someone who would hurt the main character but so far all the adults he knows are very close to him and not bad guys.
Then I realized he's a student. It struck me that one of the biggest influences on kids are teachers so it'll be a teacher he likes. Which means major rewriting of the beginning to weave this character into the story. I think maybe I shied away from that thinking it was too harry potter or something but unless I want it to be some obvious visiting warlord it'll have to be that. I toyed with the idea of it being the MC's guardian's major domo but I can't really see that person having much contact with the MC and his friends.
Thoughts?
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