I am rewriting this thing again. Again, again, again. I've started to think that rewriting this thing is all that I'm going to do. You're supposed to get out one draft at first, I hear, but I haven't even been able to complete a draft because I get to a point where I find myself feeling off in some way, disconnected from the story. And I would know exactly why.
It's gone from being too YA, which it was never meant to be, to too gritty then too silly. I hit points where I not only didn't know what to do with the rest of the story, I realized that I'd failed some elements or characters I'd created. The path I was trying to head down was just wrong. All wrong. And in the back of my head anyway, I always have all those writer suggestions as to how you're supposed to structure things, what people expect to read, how to cater to your audience.
But that isn't what this story is. This story may never be published. I don't know. The earlier entries I've posted are not what this work is meant to be, but they worked to discover what I think I want to do. Of course, those times I thought I knew what I wanted to do, and I was proud enough to start this blog.
I've had to try and break this thing down. What am I trying to do? What is this story meant to be? How am I supposed to tell it? What is even my strength as a writer? It's not plot, I can tell you that much!
Now I think I've figured it out. We'll see. I'm daring, after a few attempted outlines, to try not working with an outline again. I've written this story so much, and I have quite a few outlines by this point, so I think I can wing it again for a bit and see how the story shapes up. Where do the characters go? Hey, the setting is supposed to be a character too. Everybody counts! They all need to be represented as I tell this thing.
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