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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Writer's Log - Word date: 31,000

 

BookTrek

Writing: My final career. These are the adventures of Reesha's writing enterprise. Her five year mission: To explore strange, new plot lines. To seek out new agents and new publishers. To boldly submit where no Reesha has submitted work before!

Dooo-dooo-da-da-da-da-doooo-dooooo...whoooosh! ...

Um, yeah. So I have publishing on the brain. :) I hope you all envisioned a giant book zooming past your head at the whoosh part, with its rear deflector shields beaming at you, and leaving inspiration embedded in its warp signature.

My crew, as usual, has decided to mutiny against me. Several characters are holding out for a bigger piece of the plot. I have yet to decide what I'm going to do with them. It's difficult because, while I could just have them killed off once they try to get too much attention, there's only so much of that which can fit in a book. And I can't simply alter their character. That’s the whole point of having characters in my story: if they don’t remain true to character (which I cannot predict with plot) then what good are they to me? Thus, it is a necessary mutiny.

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If you want ideas of how to deal with several characters who all want a big part of the plot, I suggest reading Karen Traviss's Star Wars Republic Commando series (Hard Contact, Triple Zero, True Colors, and Order 66). She handles several characters really well without taking away from the plot.
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