Where's Beebo?! There she is!!!
11 years ago
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
2690
And I had to take a break today. I wrote nothing more yesterday because I had to go to the Ville and I was lazy after work and before bed. All I wanted was some How I Met Your Mother and sleep which is what I did. I was hoping to get to 2860 before the end of the day, and I just realized that I was much closer to that than I imagined. 170 more before the end of today totally possible. Also hoping to have taco salad for dinner tonight, and I should start cooking that soon.
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I'm sure you don't just have a word count goal so I was wondering ... what are your story goals? Are you separating by chapters?
I don't really have story goals at this point because well I started with absolutely no story ideas other than romance novel with a first we hate each other but we really love eachother bidness.
I am separtating by chapters (sort of roughly) totally using the fact that the thin trashy paperbacks I am basing this on all have between 21 and 25 chapters, hopefully with something that keeps you reading through them. So far I have the first chapter with the intro of the heroine and her set up (and potential complications) and we just learned the name of the hero.
As I get a better handle on what has started to happen I will probably have more story goals, other than obviously they won't just fall into happily ever after, but that I do want the obstacles to be not stupid (which I guess is kind of objective, people who hate romances will probably think they are stupid, people who like romances I want to think they are understandable and realistic reasons to make a mess of things before they fall into a happily ever after).
i was just about to ask the same question jim did. SIMILIAR THOUGHTAGE.
also, the captcha says "crone". what is it trying to say to me? if captcha is going to insult me, it should at least try a little harder.
I've always preferred obstacles that aren't stupid. Example:
Good obstacles = She pretends to be her sister so he won't think her sister's a whore only then he thinks she's a whore instead and then she shoots him.
Bad obstacles = Not trusting the hero to be a good guy despite the fact that he is a good guy and has never, ever EVER done anything to indicate otherwise. Or any other plot element that feels contrived over a natural part of the story.
You're smart. You're theatrically trained. I suspect you're capable of telling the difference between motivated and unmotivated obstacles.
Sigh, I love Sally's good obstacle book (Devil's Cub right?) and I reccomend it for anyone who likes a rip roaring story!
I figured you'd get that reference. The "and then she shoots him" makes it unmistakeable. It's got to be one of the greatest moments in literature ever. Seriously. Such a great book.
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