Sunlight is a story I began writing a long time ago, but got stuck due to lack of experience and planning.
The story continued to be present in my heart though. And now I want to finish it.
But I start from scratch. I have not even opened the file with the previous version. It is bad enough that I love some scenes already and may have trouble to remove them if needed.
I will plan my scenes to the midpoint, the false victory, half-way through.
Then I start writing.
When I’ve written my false victory, I’ll continue to plan my scenes to the final image, the end. And then write the rest.
It is a futuristic story. Not Sci-Fi, but rather a future civilization ruined by climate changes and wars, lacking electricity and shortage of food and water. Different groupings fight for what little there is left to live on.
I have moved the focus compared to my first draft. The main character is now the one changing the most, as it should be. He is an arrogant brat, looking upon himself and his group as superior to others. He changes to a reasonable, human friendly person with completely different ambitions.
Wish me luck.
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4 comments:
This concept is similar to what I am writing now. Years ago I wrote a script called 'Heart of Stone' and lost all my work when my computer crashed. I'm combining that concept with 'Born of Marrow' to create a new script that has the best of both worlds.
Please tell me your story doesn't take place in caves.
No caves, I promise.
Desiree,
This sounds really interesting. I've never tried starting over with a partially completed piece, because I haven't tried anything so long or complicated. Good luck with it - it'll be fun to hear how you progress.
I'm not sure if you've been over at my place, but my current blog has a link to a radio broadcast I did with one of my essays, for National Public Radio's Houston affiliate. There is a photo there, and a link where you can hear me reading my essay. You can see what a "shoreacres" looks and sounds like!
Thank you for the tip. It was a lovely essay.
I have written "Don't say 'I can't'. Say 'How can I'" on a sticky-note that I have on my desk as reminder (with your name under).
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