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Can you have both?
I've been working on Crossroads two and I have written a ton of stuff for it but it's not pulling together into the story I'm trying to tell. If it was as simple as turning into a different story then I would just go with it. I mean sometime you write the story and sometimes the story kidnaps your family and threatens them at gun point until you give into it's demands.
Wait. What?!
So Crossroads two has kind of been like the second one. It wants to be told but has lots of ideas and it most of them don't necessarily work together very well. So after rewriting the darn thing for the fourth time.
Not the whole thing mind you, just like the first chapter.
I finally decided it was time to give the story a chance to settle in my head because as it is I have too many ideas for one story without it turning into some kind of 300,000 word epic that I'm pretty sure would come across as anything but.
That is not to say I'm sitting on my hands though. I'm currently working on something based roughly on the old World of Darkness, Mage the Ascension setting and am trying to find the time to get some more Teslaville done as well.
Maybe I should read some stuff too wile I'm at it.
And that's what I've been up too.
~Matt
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Wow, do I know how you feel!
I'm working on a sequel to Unexpected Attractions, and I have lots of ideas, but it just isn't coming together! The story is there, but I can't get it to take shape in my head. It'll happen, eventually, but it's just so frustrating! It's funny, I'm actually impatient to read the story that I haven't written yet! Ah, well!
Wren
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I know what you mean. The other thing I'm running into is that this is the second part of a three story arc. I have the feel for the third one more or less down but the second one keeps turning into a "second part of a trilogy" story. Which it is but I don't want it to read like one.
You know what I mean. The first story has a story of it's own. It establishes the cast and all that. Then the second part fleshes everything out but too often it ends up just being preamble for the third part of the story.
I want part two to be a story unto itself in addition to leading you from part two to part three. I know it can be done but I'm having problems figuring out what I need to change about my basic theories of the story as it stands in order to do that.