Again apologies for the long gap (if indeed their is anyone actually reading my blog). Back to the topic at hand:
In the last week my book has undergone some pretty major changes to it's structure. I'm the type of person who goes back and edits throughout the entire process, rather than just leaving it until the end and then meticulously working through it page by page, so I think this will probably be happening fairly often.
Change 1:
Despite having finished the intro and being happy with it on first reading, I have since decided to scrap it for now. It was too generic and not all that attention grabbing; I found myself almost falling asleep on re-reading it, and I'm the one who wrote it!
Who knows? I may change my mind later on and add it back - with some editing of course - but for now it just wasn't working and so has gone.
Change 2: (this is the bigger and more important of the two)
I said before that my book would be divided between my two main characters, each of them living out their own storylines and interlinking with each other throughout. Now I've decided to have my first protagonist having her storyline as before, while my second will be taking on a more narrative role.
She will still have some small pieces of her own story but these will be set after that of the first girl, more of her looking back on what happened and in some cases providing explanations of things that will appear in the other storyline. My story is also set in a rather complicated world and so the second character will also be explaining how this world works and the rules that govern it, while the other lives in it.
I have a feeling there was something else but it seems to have slipped my mind at the moment. Maybe I'll remember it later and add it to this post.
What do you think of the new format?
Tschuss!
W-O
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