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Post by heroicmuse on Jun 5, 2021 22:01:16 GMT -5
booksoapwriter81 I think that's it. I sometimes get wiped out after writing an emotional scene because I'm feeling ALL the emotions along with my characters. I finished my scene tonight too, though I'm not sure I'm happy with it either but it's getting there. I'm mostly not sure about the end of the scene where my protagonist changed the subject to a different issue they need to deal with, I also want to state for the record that I came up with this storyline before Days started with Allie/Chanel, as my protagonist cheated on her husband with her female best friend one night when they were both drunk, and her friend happens to be Black. She's convinced it means nothing, but she will drop everything to try to help her friend not drink (her friend is an alcoholic at this point) and he feels like they are continuing an emotional affair if not a physical one. When I saw that kiss scene I was irritated because it was a similar premise. I wrote it first LOL. Kpatch For me, timelines vary. I have a hard time jumping in time and a lot of times it will be the next day, but I will jump a few days or longer if the story calls for it. In fanfiction I tend to just say "the next day" or "the next week" or whatever, whereas in my novels I'll usually try to provide a short summary of what happened off-screen so that the reader gets the sense of what the characters have been up to all this time.
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Post by Kpatch on Jun 7, 2021 8:20:22 GMT -5
Thanks for the feedback, guys! This is the first time I have a story that is following a strict timeline. Each new day is the very next day so far, and I feel like I'm painting myself into a corner. Chloe is pregnant, which makes the timeline important and skipping ahead can be dicey. I will have to skip days at some point though.
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Post by Kpatch on Jun 12, 2021 20:09:50 GMT -5
Does this happen to you?
Often when I’m writing, I feel like the characters are creating the story and I’m just transcribing the action. Sometimes the story goes off in a direction I didn’t plan because of something the characters do. It’s almost as if I don’t have a lot of free will in determining the story. The characters determine the story.
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Post by heroicmuse on Jun 12, 2021 20:59:08 GMT -5
Does this happen to you? Often when I’m writing, I feel like the characters are creating the story and I’m just transcribing the action. Sometimes the story goes off in a direction I didn’t plan because of something the characters do. It’s almost as if I don’t have a lot of free will in determining the story. The characters determine the story. All the time. My plans NEVER work out because my characters don't cooperate. When I started Breaking Ties, my plan was for JJ to start dating Marissa since Paige didn't want him anymore (that was part of the reason for the title), but JJ was not having that LOL It happens in my novels too. I tend to write a bunch of drafts before I figure out the story when novel writing because I'm always following my characters somewhere that turns out to be a dead end. |
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Post by booksoapwriter81 on Jun 13, 2021 21:09:35 GMT -5
booksoapwriter81 I think that's it. I sometimes get wiped out after writing an emotional scene because I'm feeling ALL the emotions along with my characters. I finished my scene tonight too, though I'm not sure I'm happy with it either but it's getting there. I'm mostly not sure about the end of the scene where my protagonist changed the subject to a different issue they need to deal with, I also want to state for the record that I came up with this storyline before Days started with Allie/Chanel, as my protagonist cheated on her husband with her female best friend one night when they were both drunk, and her friend happens to be Black. She's convinced it means nothing, but she will drop everything to try to help her friend not drink (her friend is an alcoholic at this point) and he feels like they are continuing an emotional affair if not a physical one. When I saw that kiss scene I was irritated because it was a similar premise. I wrote it first LOL. Kpatch For me, timelines vary. I have a hard time jumping in time and a lot of times it will be the next day, but I will jump a few days or longer if the story calls for it. In fanfiction I tend to just say "the next day" or "the next week" or whatever, whereas in my novels I'll usually try to provide a short summary of what happened off-screen so that the reader gets the sense of what the characters have been up to all this time. I know what you mean about being frustrated when a storyline that you came up with appears somewhere else before you have a chance to share it with the world, heroicmuse. I had that happen to me with the main premise of my third book. In it, an election for town mayor is occurring, and one of the candidates is a rich entitled man who thinks he deserves to win simply because of who he is. This storyline was first written in 2000. Little did I know that when I was rewriting the book a few years back, a very similar thing would be happening in real life! I thought, "Aw, man! When I release the new version of this book, everyone is going to think that I based it off of the 2016 election!" But I really didn't. I had the idea long before something that seemed like it could only happen in a fiction novel became a reality. |
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Post by booksoapwriter81 on Jun 13, 2021 21:16:43 GMT -5
Does this happen to you? Often when I’m writing, I feel like the characters are creating the story and I’m just transcribing the action. Sometimes the story goes off in a direction I didn’t plan because of something the characters do. It’s almost as if I don’t have a lot of free will in determining the story. The characters determine the story. This happens to me all of the time too, Kpatch. It is actually one of my favorite parts about writing because I am often very surprised by where things wind up. For example, in my newest book, I have a character who is about to officially introduce the woman he intends to marry to his parents. His father in particular already has a bad impression of her because she comes from the richest family in town and has had a reputation for being a snob who hurts other people on purpose in the past. Somehow when I was constructing the storyline, an extra element that I had not planned on worked its way in there. The father has had a lawsuit wrongfully filed against him by someone who was staying at the hotel he owns during a week when some pipes burst and flooded some of the rooms. The character's girlfriend happens to be a brilliant lawyer who has never lost a case, so he comes up with the idea to have her construct a defense for his father and impress him with it as a way of breaking the ice and proving that she no longer lives up to the reputation that she has had for so long. I never planned for that to happen when I originally came up with the storyline, but it works really well, and I am glad it played out the way it did! |
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