Shadowfax wrote:Not liking this clickyness that seems to be forming
MLK's always been quite cliquish though, tbqh. I don't feel like anything's all that different from any other time I've been on here. lol
Carl Skywalker wrote:GeminiGemelo wrote:^ Good luck dude. Tbh I think stories are built just as much from the heart as from the mind, as corny as it sounds. If it doesn't capture your interest and all your idle thoughts then it might not be meant to be. Go out there and recreate it and make something YOU enjoy.
Yeah, the first version I was very passionate about when I was first writing it, but that was back in high school, so the final result wasn't spectacular. So I've been trying to get the spirit of that back, but go in a new direction, so that I can write something that reflects me now and has a better overall product. I think one of the main things is that I've been trying to write something for the wrong demographic--my interests and mindset and subject matter considered, this story should have always been targeted at adolescents and young adults, and I think my biggest failing was that I tried to make the story "grown up" in just about every version, and ultimately the lack of detail put into the political aspects and more complex plot elements left a lot to be desired because of the angle I was coming from, presenting it as a story about a sidekick who was already an adult and was trying to forge her own path and yadda yadda, when in reality my protagonist should have been younger and the tone of the book slightly different and stuff like that. So yeah. I'm rectifying that, but trying not to lose any darkness/maturity that I think works in that kind of setting (gritty heroes are kinda my jam), and perhaps even make it darker and more meaningful than it originally was.
Sounds awesome.
Yeah, I'd say go with what works. Sometimes when you try too hard to make a work serious, you lose what truly makes it compelling/interesting. I know I've felt that as well.Thing to remember - if you're not super sold on your story, your reader almost certainly won't be.
