Been slacking, both here and writing in general. I’ve started working on my screenplay again. Draft 4 should be the final draft, then I submit it to the Nicholl fellowship. Then back to the fantasy manuscript.
I’ve been itching to get back to my science fiction world again. It’s a recognizable future, with no magic technology and only 6 planets that are fairly close to each other. Not including Earth, which is far away.
I’m going to use these stories to experiment with different voices. I’ve always known I wanted to use different POVs with the stories but I’m looking at using first person for exposition and third person for action. Maybe using fictional articles and encyclopedia entries for scene/world building.
Would you rather hear the character talking for 2,000 words about the city she lives in, or read a short, dry pseudo-factual article that bashes out ideas.
That’s why, if anyone was wondering, the first person bits of the work I posted were italiczied and the third person bits were plain text.
I can’t think of anything I’ve read that does this. I’ve read plenty of stuff that uses fictional articles or diary entries as chapter headings, but nothing that switches within the text. Now, I’m not planning on jumping around willy-nilly. I’d probably separate exposition and action and setting at least by sections. Although right now I’m working this in a more short story format, so it’s possible that entire entries would be in a particular format.
Okay, here’s something, just to get something down. It’s actually kind of far into where I’m thinking this story is going to go.
Some time later, I was told by Herman what the results of my work were.
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Having SO MUCH TROUBLE getting this started.
I want to write something that’s not a “project”. Just a fun, silly little writing adventure and I can’t figure out how to get it rolling. Isn’t the point of this for it to be easy? (answer: yes).
How much do we worry about being derivative?
I’ve got two active projects right now. One is a screenplay that’s real world/present time, the other is a fantasy manuscript. Juggling them is a problem. Right now I’m focusing on the screenplay because I want to submit it to the Nichols Fellowship, which has a deadline. But I really view that as my secondary project, because I’ve always been more natural in prose and I don’t have to let some studio do unnatural things to my soul with books.
I just finished a draft on the screenplay and it needs probably one more, because I think I want to tighten the time period it covers. I finished the last draft about a week ago. How long do I wait before jumping into the fourth one? Not counting waiting for feedback, of course. I do actually have someone to give great feedback.
Work on the manuscript for a while, maybe? That needs at least one more, I think just one more draft, actually.
