Bonjour, tout le monde!
It’s been a pretty good week for me vis-รก-vis creativity; I’ve been struggling with starting my novel yet again, and I’d been losing hope for it. However, I realised that what I was doing was struggling to fit an idea that I’d been working on since I had started uni to my current style and outlook on life. The story was simply about awesome technology in an awesome city which, while appealing, makes for an incredibly dull plot.
So what I did was revamp the characters, give up my sentimental hold on the plot and shook it up a bit without disturbing the overall flow, and approach the planning of the novel from a completely different angle. The important part (interestingly enough related to one of my dayjob tasks involving a bit of data modelling) was to consider not simply the overall flow of the plot, but to consider events, interested parties and people. By using these and branching off interesting, useful properties facts and sub-events from these, I was able to relate them to each other more organically, and even developed brand new items for the plot that now that I’ve realised it, make complete logical sense. Why didn’t I see them before, I ask myself!
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