I don't remember if I made a post today, but I have other things to say.
I'm enjoying my new perspectives, or rather my new voice. Â I find that there's a lot I want to talk about with writing lately and I find it really exciting. I think it has to do with the fact that my writing is really taking off in a direction that is positive and, so far, fruitful.
Tonight I talked with one of my friends about how he starts a story. Â As I have explained before, I play god in my stories. Â I create characters first and define a story for them that usually does not end happily. Â The characters come first, then the situation, and finally the world (which is sometimes an afterthought and perhaps not very well thought out with the exception being AGOHAC). Â He told me that he makes a clearly defined world first, then makes a few characters, and lets them tell him their story. Â I really enjoy this organic approach to writing and I think it is reflected well in what he writes.
I have been trying to focus on the world the story occurs in more. Â AGOHAC features a world (or at least a large aspect of the world) that governs the people and the way they live their lives, so it needs to have its center in the light. Â I feel like my problem lies in the fact that I make larger-than-life characters and they overshadow the world. Â So I'm trying to focus more on the subtle political influences that would affect the world of AGOHAC. Â In GAP, well I'm not really sure what I'm doing in GAP yet, but I'm trying to create a glorious world and a smaller, more humble protagonist. Â I have a lot of ideas for GAP, but the way we're writing it anything could happen.
So yeah, that is one of the things I'm working on to better my writing.