notes - intro

Helloooooo, it is very-nearly-November and I decided, uh, two days ago what on earth I was going to be doing.  I pulled a NaNoRebellion last year and churned out a drawing each day - which was fantastic, I'm actually still riding on that motivational kick-in-the-pants.  But I did miss the writing, getting lost in those worlds, and I have two stories I really want to get finished someday.

I'm also still on serious highs from the concerts I've been to in the past year, so, y'all have had a narrow escape from some kind of ridiculous rockstar story. (For now. I haven't totally ruled that out as a future plot - I wrote some not-totally-irredeemable short stories in that vein years ago.)

PLOT. Ha. Funny we should mention that.

I spent an entire evening curled up with No Plot, No Problem! and 20 Master Plots and how to build them, trying to sort out where on earth I could take my stories in a productive direction. Naturally, at first all I was doing was ticking off, "yep, that plotline is Meres and Veri! yeah, that one's definitely Azal..."  Because these characters never really leave my psyche.  So I nearly went back to Amaranthus by default.  But I wanted to work on Echoes in the Garden, which has an awful lot of things I like, but doesn't have much by way of plot movement.

At least I thought it didn't.  I've re-read about a quarter of it now, and it's a little less tedious than I thought it was. YAY.  (I've also discovered its soundtrack overlaps quite a bit with what's currently on my Zune anyway, so that works out nicely.)

That said, we still need an antagonist.  So I have an easy one that I'm going to throw into the mix, and then we'll see what happens from there.  I don't have a whole lot of plans cemented for the story, but I have enough little bits to get me rolling, and I know the story will invent some things on its own once I'm back there. <3  We're definitely going to need to delve into Meres and Celestine more, because I still have no idea their purpose in showing up for Kimber.  Actually I still have no idea what anyone's purpose is, apart from satisfying her curiosity and motivating her to draw/live.  Which is nice and all, buuut not really enough of a plot for a whole novel.

Still working on that one. le sigh.