Nano Plotting
Sep. 20th, 2011 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212So, private opinion poll. Should I:
A) Finish writing Ghost Wake (ghosts and a century-old murder mystery on a college campus, lots of interesting student dynamics, and I'd finally get to write the other ghosts that I've had all the backstory and interesting details on.) Only problem? I have no idea of how things are going to fit together there. It might take me the entire next 50000 words to get everything moving.
or
B) Write a lesbian Cinderella story with magic, Cinderella and a random noblewoman hooking up together, the stepmother and a royal councilor trying to stir up a war with another kingdom, and the princess of that foreign kingdom joining forces with Cinderella, the noblewoman, and the prince to stop the war from happening. Cons: I'd have to come up with a coherent system of magic, two separate working kingdoms, and a whole lot of characters and politics.
I figure I'll need to decide this stuff in October so that I can actually character-create if need be (and, you know, plot things out?) before November hits. Plus if I go for the Cinderella have at least one freak-out about trying to write something which has at least one romantic sub-plot. Still haven't decided if the prince and princess are going to be actively falling in love, or just go for the, "well, we get along well enough and it's in the best interest of both kingdoms, so sure," bit.
A) Finish writing Ghost Wake (ghosts and a century-old murder mystery on a college campus, lots of interesting student dynamics, and I'd finally get to write the other ghosts that I've had all the backstory and interesting details on.) Only problem? I have no idea of how things are going to fit together there. It might take me the entire next 50000 words to get everything moving.
or
B) Write a lesbian Cinderella story with magic, Cinderella and a random noblewoman hooking up together, the stepmother and a royal councilor trying to stir up a war with another kingdom, and the princess of that foreign kingdom joining forces with Cinderella, the noblewoman, and the prince to stop the war from happening. Cons: I'd have to come up with a coherent system of magic, two separate working kingdoms, and a whole lot of characters and politics.
I figure I'll need to decide this stuff in October so that I can actually character-create if need be (and, you know, plot things out?) before November hits. Plus if I go for the Cinderella have at least one freak-out about trying to write something which has at least one romantic sub-plot. Still haven't decided if the prince and princess are going to be actively falling in love, or just go for the, "well, we get along well enough and it's in the best interest of both kingdoms, so sure," bit.