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luckykaa21870 words. That's about 200 ahead of where I should be. But I'm running out of plot here.
Actually that's not totally true. There are various things that need bo be resolved. First of all though these situations need to escalate. I have three villians. The fake bad guy, the villain of the piece and the über-bad. They've only had fleeting introductions though.
The story so far - Lizzie, the main character - escapes from her home city with her uncle shortly before a war starts. Uncle teaches her useful survival skills. They get attacked. He gets killed. She inadvertantly becomes a highwayman. Lots of stuff to do with ethnic conflict going on. Also a shameless lift of a bit of plot from the IDP camp thing I did.
The structure of this novel is just wrong. I keep writing sections that would be idea as setup to things that have already happened. The highwayman rationale isn't really all that great, I need to change the start so that Lizzie starts off as a a fairly self centred highwayman before becoming a Robin Hood figure. and I need a much better training montage. Also the invasion doesn't work as well as a breakup/civil war would. And getting good character behaviour is difficult. If everything goes perfectly you end up with a Mary Sue and it's all a bit dull. So I make things go less well. Then my character comes across as incompetent, constantly dealing with her own mistakes.
Still have no idea how to defeat the villain. How do you eliminate a despot? If it was easy then they'd be replaced with a better despot. So it becomes hard. And suddenly there's no way to defeat them because all the avenues have been eliminated.
ION: Will have to work out a plan for this weekend. Don't have a lot of free time. Need to make the most of this.
Actually that's not totally true. There are various things that need bo be resolved. First of all though these situations need to escalate. I have three villians. The fake bad guy, the villain of the piece and the über-bad. They've only had fleeting introductions though.
The story so far - Lizzie, the main character - escapes from her home city with her uncle shortly before a war starts. Uncle teaches her useful survival skills. They get attacked. He gets killed. She inadvertantly becomes a highwayman. Lots of stuff to do with ethnic conflict going on. Also a shameless lift of a bit of plot from the IDP camp thing I did.
The structure of this novel is just wrong. I keep writing sections that would be idea as setup to things that have already happened. The highwayman rationale isn't really all that great, I need to change the start so that Lizzie starts off as a a fairly self centred highwayman before becoming a Robin Hood figure. and I need a much better training montage. Also the invasion doesn't work as well as a breakup/civil war would. And getting good character behaviour is difficult. If everything goes perfectly you end up with a Mary Sue and it's all a bit dull. So I make things go less well. Then my character comes across as incompetent, constantly dealing with her own mistakes.
Still have no idea how to defeat the villain. How do you eliminate a despot? If it was easy then they'd be replaced with a better despot. So it becomes hard. And suddenly there's no way to defeat them because all the avenues have been eliminated.
ION: Will have to work out a plan for this weekend. Don't have a lot of free time. Need to make the most of this.
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Date: 2009-11-13 10:26 pm (UTC)Do you have to have the villain defeated by the main character? Or at all?
Take them out of the region and retire them? Or a revolution? Or a rebellion? Or the International Criminal Court? How would it affect the story if they geared up for an assassination and then had it seized from the by the Hague?
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Date: 2009-11-13 11:07 pm (UTC)Although I like the idea of the almost assassination.
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Date: 2009-11-13 11:47 pm (UTC)