Friday Rants and Raves - April 25

[sarillia]

Happy Friday everyone! I haven't done this in a while but we're back. Hopefully you all have lots of good things to talk about , but I want to hear about the bad stuff too if you need someone to commiserate with. How has your writing life been lately?

Continuing with my ongoing presentation of the pictures in my "inspiration" collection, today we have James Skelton Smith's Courting the Moon.

Comments

[serria]

I've made a lot of progress on my "epic", but then hit a wall. There just seemed like too many pieces, and it didn't seem solid enough yet. I don't understand my antagonists yet, I am introducing more characters than I feel like I can handle, and I'm not sure how exciting any potential reader will actually find it. I don't know whether or not to keep chipping away at it, or take a break to clear my head.

So, I've kind of done the latter over the past week. I've worked on a different story, which is definitely not an epic, and much more simple. Hopefully I can keep it a little more straight forward.

[sarillia]

I know that feeling where the number of characters gets overwhelming. I had one story with 11 POVs that I jumped around between and each one of them had other people that they knew and it was really hard to keep track of them all.

Working on a simpler story while you clear your head sounds like a good idea. I hope you get past your wall soon.

[splinteredstar]

Arg, yeah, large casts are difficult. I somehow tend to end up with five narrators and it never works out. And I definitely know the "wait everything is going everywhere aaaaah" kind of feeling.

Good luck!

[serria]

Blah, POV narrators are tough. I have one main protagonist, but because there's so much going on in the story it'd be impossible to have it follow her alone. It's nuts how much can develop, and it feels like it's never going to come together smoothly. I tend to try to write certain plot points straight from start to finish, and later I'll try to fit them in to the main story. But so much of what I write, I think, should I just cut this for pacing?