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sci-fi editing eye?
Feb. 3rd, 2011 05:53 pmSo I've been working on the next part of Visitors. I'm taking a break after writing steadily for the past couple days. I'm pausing because I'm questioning just how much complexity I can reasonably add to the story without making it too overwhelming and wtf when it comes to plots and sub-plots and whatnot. I admit, when I first started the story, I had trouble coming up with a plot. Now I have too many! I don't want to do too much editing, but at the same time it's very possible to take away from the story by putting in too much material. I'm not sure that I can get everything in the story that I want, but even if I could, I'm not sure I should.
As it is, I seem to be veering a bit off from the direction I'd originally planned. I'm afraid this story is rapidly losing all intended humor. I swear, I let my brains go on autopilot for ten minutes and everything's gone to pot. On the one hand, I like the seriousness, but on the other...I'm not sure how/if I can successfully integrate the two ideas. I've got a miniature bit of drama going on, which can be (fairly easily) resolved, but what happens in that drama is bound to change how the characters interact with and perceive each other. I'm not certain I'll be able to coax them into bed with each other, which was kinda sorta one of my goals. XD (Okay, so that's really an ulterior motive for a lot of my fanfics.) But still, I try not to write myself into a corner, as it were. I don't want to have to pull some deus ex machina jobbie to get things back where I wanted them to head in the first place; I would like to avoid the trouble altogether.
....I seem to have forgotten the point of all this. *shrug* Can't have been that critical, if I got derailed mid-thought. Probably I just need to give my brain a break, and what I've got so far for part three of five will make more sense.
~later
As it is, I seem to be veering a bit off from the direction I'd originally planned. I'm afraid this story is rapidly losing all intended humor. I swear, I let my brains go on autopilot for ten minutes and everything's gone to pot. On the one hand, I like the seriousness, but on the other...I'm not sure how/if I can successfully integrate the two ideas. I've got a miniature bit of drama going on, which can be (fairly easily) resolved, but what happens in that drama is bound to change how the characters interact with and perceive each other. I'm not certain I'll be able to coax them into bed with each other, which was kinda sorta one of my goals. XD (Okay, so that's really an ulterior motive for a lot of my fanfics.) But still, I try not to write myself into a corner, as it were. I don't want to have to pull some deus ex machina jobbie to get things back where I wanted them to head in the first place; I would like to avoid the trouble altogether.
....I seem to have forgotten the point of all this. *shrug* Can't have been that critical, if I got derailed mid-thought. Probably I just need to give my brain a break, and what I've got so far for part three of five will make more sense.
~later
