Now I realise why my old writings never got off the ground. I just sat down and wrote. Ok I designed the characters in depth, but not what was going to happen to them. I enjoyed imagining things as it went along, rather than thinking I’m going to have a finished product.
I’ve been writing out a plan of this practice graphic novel/comic type thing, and thankfully resisted the urge to just get started on the drawing, because now I’m scrapping it and starting anew, with a sudden clarity on writing.
What I’ve discovered, is the plot doesn’t mean sod all on it’s own. It’s the characters you get attached to a story for (or at least, I do) and rather than plotting one big journey/plot for all of them, they all need their own journeys and then they must be tied together.
Every shot must have meaning, as must every action and every plot device. Not ‘because it’s there and they must deal with it’. If it just plays out like real life, whatever the setting happens to be, well… who cares? We live real life all the time, now lets have something that’s symbolic through and through, rather than having to dig through filler to get to what you’re getting at.
So not “here’s an event, and he’s a romance that grows out of it”
“Here is a romance, and we must get there somehow”
So my plan’s getting scrapped, and I’m starting again. With the characters, not the events =P
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