Writing ”stuff” from a wanna-be writer.
I noticed in my latest book, that I had accumulated waaayy to many characters. So, being me, I decided several of them must die. Before you go crying over these lost souls, they weren’t that special and yes I am mean. Moving on . . .
When I decided that several must die, I spun the wheel of fate and it landed on the sailors. The sailors are the “extra” peeps and aren’t that cool, besides, I had trouble keeping their character lines straight. There was seven of them so I pushed them down to two. I couldn’t bear to let all those awesome names go. (I love Irish names) however, I’m lazy when it comes to rewriting. So a brillant plan struck me. I could erase all the parts names are mentioned, rewriting only a little, and only mention the sailors by name at the point when I was writing.
This lead me to what I’ll write about, taking risks with writing.
When I’ll only mention the sailors by name in the 29th page of my book, the people won’t be attached to teh characters. The sailors die (hacked down by English of course) and the “audience” will probably only feel limited emotions. It’s not like they cared for them right?
So when I introduce the characters, I need to create strong emotion/connection for them to grab on to people.
I decided to do this by having one of the characters find his dead twin brother. The other characters imply finds the first.
I’m hoping to create a connection, but it’s balancing on the edge.
What if people don’t care about their brothers?
What if the writing’s just not good?
What if the brother seems overly distraught or not caring enough about his brother’s death?
I could create a heart-rendering part of the book that people will love, or I could create a bad mushy/gushy connection that people feel is the worst part.
Most likely, I’ll have opinions on both sides.
I like the idea of a challange for writing. It’s an interesting thrill when someone reads it and says, “Wow!”
Of course, some will read and hate it. It’s all just a balancing act.
I’m trying to understand this post. were you giving advice, or just explaining your story?
or was it just writing “stuff”
srsly, I have no idea. I’m considering redoing it . . . it doesn’t make sense to me.
well, it’s interesting. don’t bother re-doing it. just do another post.
I thought it was a good choice to kill of the twins brother, I felt lots of emotion, but I think it also gave the character a good reason to WANT to fight.
Hope that helped.