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Nickeris86:
Finally started work on my dark fantasy novel but hit an a wall, as some of you may have seen, on what perspective to put it in (first or third person). I have written out the opening of the story in both perspectives and am looking for some feed back on which reads better.
Anyone interested in helping a poor frustrated writer out *big ol puppy-dog eyes*
Lanodantheon:
Word count for my Epic Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Western is still at zero. However, I decided to compile my notes(written up at breaktimes at work in e-mails from myself, to myself) into a couple of word documents.
I ended up with around....50+ pages of pre-writing notes including at least 10 outlines.
That half a year's worth of notes + the Genre Expectation Thread I posted a while ago dclearly illustrates I have the Western stuff down cold in my designs.
Also started listening to the podcast, Writing Excuses and what's one of the last things they mention on the episode I heard?
"Probably the biggest stigma you could attach to a book is to say it's also a 'Western'"......FFFFFFFFFFFFFF...................
So I'm listening to more of that show AND going back over my notes so I can make sure the Fantasy comes first. By the end of the week I will probably have another 10 pages of notes, all of which relating to putting Magic, Elves, Dwarves, Dragons and things that think Mortals look yummy onto the Frontier.
Snowleopard:
Now would probably be the time for this story Lanodantheon - Cowboys vs Aliens will have joined the two genre's in peoples minds and made it more acceptable to the general public and the powers that be.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Snowleopard on August 10, 2011, 07:40:54 PM ---Now would probably be the time for this story Lanodantheon - Cowboys vs Aliens will have joined the two genre's in peoples minds and made it more acceptable to the general public and the powers that be.
--- End quote ---
Unless the general tone of most Cowboys vs. Aliens reviews that I've seen being "nice idea, nice title, shame about the movie" convinces the powers that be not to play around in that direction right now.
I hit into the first of the awkward chewy line edits last night. A couple of hundred words new, something moved from chapter 4 to chapter 1 to ramp up the tension a bit earlier, and a note to tie this in a bit more to the first major climax when I get there. May try some more after dinner tonight.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Also, if my dream last night is to be trusted, there is no setting so peculiar or world so alien that you can't do a redaction of "Famous Blue Raincoat" in it. I am seriously wondering whether that's the direction I want to take the subplot in... volume 5 of the Thing I Want To Write, which as I am half way through Volume 2 now is not a decision I need to make any time soon.
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