Inspiration running low...

[wallwalker]

I see now why cheerleaders are so important for these big bang things!

My hardmode project is giving me fits. And not just because I'm having trouble with the actual writing of it - I'm having a little, but I can usually overcome that. No, the issue that I'm really having is with my outline. I'm re-reading it, and I'm just not sure that what I've included in this story is adequate to tell the story I want to tell.

Part of it is my continued indecision about whether or not I want to rehash stuff that was actually in the game. I said no when I started this, because I don't care for novelizations in most cases. They tend to be lame retellings of game dialogue with very little new added to them and therefore not much point in reading them. Reading through them usually involves being bored for a while as you try to get past the stuff you already know. So I've been making up new scenes about Claude and Opera during the game, and trying to establish a relationship that way, by referencing the stuff that can happen during the game but not writing scenes that are basically rewriting the game.

But now I'm feeling like it's just not really working as well as I thought it would. It's partially because I'm writing about two characters who get a fair number of scenes together, true, but those scenes and interactions aren't the ones that people really see unless they're trying to see them. And so I feel like I'm not giving enough context, and I don't really have "Oh, they've seen this if they've played the game" to fall back on, because that ain't necessarily so. But rewriting the PAs between Claude and Opera (and between other characters and Opera, to a lesser degree, because I did want to incorporate a couple of the scenes between her and Rena that involved Claude) seems like cheating.

I'm not sure. I'm wondering if I should write this story in chronological order instead of going back and forth the way I did before, if that would help - the back-and-forth, while interesting, does seem to muddle the timeline and doesn't really serve to add anything to it. I'm not drawing parallels between Opera's interest in Claude and her relationship with Ernest the way that I thought that I would. Maybe if I can start writing in sequence it'll get me somewhere again. The parts set on Expel and Energy Nede will start to feel like a story and not bits and pieces of background information. It's worth a shot.

Hopefully I'll have things to post here. But I'm not at all sure I'll have this polished and edited before the deadline. We'll see.

Comments

[lassarina]

*cheers for you, squelching own panic at the thought of two big bangs mostly undone*

[electric_butterfly]

At least you've actually got things done. I haven't. kink_bingo, on the other hand, got plenty of/will be getting plenty of submissions. I think it's the point thing/allowances that do it.