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Too much plot?
Sep. 6th, 2011 12:15 amSo I've been working on the Visitors follow-up stuff, trying to get some general ideas for the plot. (Because while it would be awesome to do nothing but porn, it really wouldn't advance the story.) I've been having a bit of a go-round with myself. You see, I've got plot. Lots and lots of plot. But! I'm not sure if it's too much plot, especially compared with the plot of the first story.
I'm running into the issue that, while Visitors was largely a character-driven story, this second one...may not be? Okay. Well. It will still be circling around the interpersonal stuff, but I've actually got (what I hope is) an interesting plot. I'll be the first person to admit that I made a list for Visitors entitled "spurious plot devices" and that's how I came up with the quarrantine thing. This second story I'm thinking a little harder about, because I want to have it all: I've got plans for plot and plans for man-on-man action. I don't want to feel like I'm sacrificing, one way or the other. However, I'm not sure how much material I can reasonably juggle, given that I'm hoping to stay around the same length as the first one. (It makes me feel a little...silly...that I'm already contemplating a third story--that is, a third story that is not the porntastic side-story.) The more I think about it, the more it looks like it could turn into a monster arc.
I've got a definite beginning and a definite ending. I've got a lot of squidginess in the middle that I'm tinkering with, a lot of wiggle room. I try to keep things simple when it comes to plots, I really do, because I think that leaves the most room for all the character development and interactions that I so like to read. (Have I said before that I try to write stories that I would want to read? That's always my goal, really.) On the other hand, I'm not going to pass up a perfectly good plot just because it might be a little more involved than what I might usually write. The ideas I've got are exciting to me. Hopefully, they'll be exciting to people reading the story, too.
Is there such a thing as too much plot? I myself have never cared for mysteries, because I don't find them mysterious or exciting. I don't like guessing my way through a book: I find mysteries to be irritating, as a whole. I worry, a bit, that my plots may be too transparent, just because I'm shying away from the twisty-turny mystery thing. But I don't know if mysteries qualify as having too much plot. Maybe it's just the way they're structured that bothers me?
Anyway. I've got to go. No more thinking about writing tonight! I've got a busy day tomorrow: it's my first day at the new job, among other things. Now, if I can only settle in to sleep...
~later
I'm running into the issue that, while Visitors was largely a character-driven story, this second one...may not be? Okay. Well. It will still be circling around the interpersonal stuff, but I've actually got (what I hope is) an interesting plot. I'll be the first person to admit that I made a list for Visitors entitled "spurious plot devices" and that's how I came up with the quarrantine thing. This second story I'm thinking a little harder about, because I want to have it all: I've got plans for plot and plans for man-on-man action. I don't want to feel like I'm sacrificing, one way or the other. However, I'm not sure how much material I can reasonably juggle, given that I'm hoping to stay around the same length as the first one. (It makes me feel a little...silly...that I'm already contemplating a third story--that is, a third story that is not the porntastic side-story.) The more I think about it, the more it looks like it could turn into a monster arc.
I've got a definite beginning and a definite ending. I've got a lot of squidginess in the middle that I'm tinkering with, a lot of wiggle room. I try to keep things simple when it comes to plots, I really do, because I think that leaves the most room for all the character development and interactions that I so like to read. (Have I said before that I try to write stories that I would want to read? That's always my goal, really.) On the other hand, I'm not going to pass up a perfectly good plot just because it might be a little more involved than what I might usually write. The ideas I've got are exciting to me. Hopefully, they'll be exciting to people reading the story, too.
Is there such a thing as too much plot? I myself have never cared for mysteries, because I don't find them mysterious or exciting. I don't like guessing my way through a book: I find mysteries to be irritating, as a whole. I worry, a bit, that my plots may be too transparent, just because I'm shying away from the twisty-turny mystery thing. But I don't know if mysteries qualify as having too much plot. Maybe it's just the way they're structured that bothers me?
Anyway. I've got to go. No more thinking about writing tonight! I've got a busy day tomorrow: it's my first day at the new job, among other things. Now, if I can only settle in to sleep...
~later
