*yawn*

[ksmith]

Finally, finally, *finally* finished a chapter that had just been dragging on and dragging on. It wasn't even a particularly long chapter--maybe 8 or 9 pages--but it flowed liked chopped rock. I think the problem is that I still don't quite have the handle on this POV, so actions are up in the air. Would she do this? Would she do that? At this point, almost everything rates at least a Maybe, and that makes it difficult to move forward in a definitive manner.

Of course, this is first draft. It's all supposed to suck anyway.

One thing is settled. POV is stubborn.

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

One problem is, like two of the POVs in CI, this is not a pleasant character to write. Alien mindset, in more ways than one, which means a struggle against making her one-dimensional, Easy Evil. She has reasons for doing what she does and being what she is. I just need to figure them out. With luck, I will do this sooner than I did with the 2 CI POVs--one month before the rewritten book is due is no time to figure out two main characters.

Not all baddies strike me like this. Evan van Reuter was a selfish bastard, but I enjoyed writing his POV. It allowed me to unleash my Inner Brat in ways never before experienced. All I had to do was think, 'what would a completely self-centered, selfish, arrogant, spolied SOB do now?' Ta-da! Even the simple act of writing his tantrums and machinations satisfied me, in an odd way. I got it out of my system.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*nod*

There are baddies I *like* writing--I loved writing Valens, for example--and then there are some that just leave my skin crawling with a desire to get the heck away.

Which I guess, in both its extremes, is a good thing. At least one is engaging the character.