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And a great woot went out over the land
May. 4th, 2008 09:50 amI finally finished the outline to the Queenmaker story, or at least the first installment. The thing about this is, I already know that there's no freaking way to tell this story in one novel. I can tell it reasonably in three, and since the publishing industry seems to like that kind of thing, so be it. And I do think that this has potential to at least make it to an agent's desk and probably not make them scream or tear their hair out or anything like that.
In this tale or 'verse or what the frak ever we're calling it, everybody has a really interesting tale to tell so I sort of have to direct traffic and make sure nobody's stories get into head on collisions. Because right now it's a challenge to keep things balanced. Especially since the next story is desperate to get told and outlined as well.
Though that's understandable, because frankly, who wouldn't want to skip ahead to the part with bickering Emperors and the monkey with his four monkey daughters, and the old lady pirate admiral who thinks everyone just needs either a slap or a good shag and the duel to the death over party decorations and and excuses to slip famous lolcat sayings in under the guise of legitimate literature. Because, well, jesus christ, it's a LION!.
But at least the outline for the first part is finished. I took longer on this outline than I usually do because I think one of the problems with the Tower!Guy story was that when I did the outline for it, there were parts of the story/background that I didn't know, so all the info I didn't have got pastede_on_unyay with whatever I could come up with.
This lead to fundamental problems when it came time to explain certain logistical elements of the story.
Thus, I decided that it would be worth my while to take the time to really think out and structure the parts that I didn't immediately already have invented in my head.
As you can probably tell, I'm having a lot of fun with this story.
It'd be nice if I could have as much fun editing the Tower!Guy story, but so far it's just an exercise in, "What the frak was I thinking? I SUCK."
But no matter how much it sucks, no matter how much I'd love to give in and abandon the damn thing, I made myself a promise. It will be put in an envelope and mailed to either an agent or editor somewhere. Of course, said agent and/or editor may laugh themselves into a vegetative state over how bad it is, but still. It will at least get mailed somewhere to someone.
In this tale or 'verse or what the frak ever we're calling it, everybody has a really interesting tale to tell so I sort of have to direct traffic and make sure nobody's stories get into head on collisions. Because right now it's a challenge to keep things balanced. Especially since the next story is desperate to get told and outlined as well.
Though that's understandable, because frankly, who wouldn't want to skip ahead to the part with bickering Emperors and the monkey with his four monkey daughters, and the old lady pirate admiral who thinks everyone just needs either a slap or a good shag and the duel to the death over party decorations and and excuses to slip famous lolcat sayings in under the guise of legitimate literature. Because, well, jesus christ, it's a LION!.
But at least the outline for the first part is finished. I took longer on this outline than I usually do because I think one of the problems with the Tower!Guy story was that when I did the outline for it, there were parts of the story/background that I didn't know, so all the info I didn't have got pastede_on_unyay with whatever I could come up with.
This lead to fundamental problems when it came time to explain certain logistical elements of the story.
Thus, I decided that it would be worth my while to take the time to really think out and structure the parts that I didn't immediately already have invented in my head.
As you can probably tell, I'm having a lot of fun with this story.
It'd be nice if I could have as much fun editing the Tower!Guy story, but so far it's just an exercise in, "What the frak was I thinking? I SUCK."
But no matter how much it sucks, no matter how much I'd love to give in and abandon the damn thing, I made myself a promise. It will be put in an envelope and mailed to either an agent or editor somewhere. Of course, said agent and/or editor may laugh themselves into a vegetative state over how bad it is, but still. It will at least get mailed somewhere to someone.
