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I'm still sort of feeling my way around the story. I've been writing out of sequence, bits and pieces of things that will go into different parts of the novel, trying to figure out where everything is headed. I've been doing this because 1) it's how I tend to write anything, and 2) because I had a sense something was off.
Last night I realized that something is indeed off - my plans to switch back and forth between the POV of two main characters just isn't working. What I do best is very tight one person POV, and usually that's of a female protagonist. This is especially true of my more erotic fiction, and over the course of the past couple of days, most of my struggling has been with the POV of the main male character in the story. So, I decided that he needs to go. Not as in, cut him out completely, but as in tell the entire novel from the female protag's perspective. I think this will make for a far more emotionally powerful story in the long run, and I suspect a much smaller wordcount - which is good, because I think shorter is usually better for first-time novelists. Unless you're a sooper-genius with gobs of talent, which I'm not, in which case you can write whatever length you please.
Still not posting any excerpts yet. Believe me, you're not missing out on anything. :)
I'm still sort of feeling my way around the story. I've been writing out of sequence, bits and pieces of things that will go into different parts of the novel, trying to figure out where everything is headed. I've been doing this because 1) it's how I tend to write anything, and 2) because I had a sense something was off.
Last night I realized that something is indeed off - my plans to switch back and forth between the POV of two main characters just isn't working. What I do best is very tight one person POV, and usually that's of a female protagonist. This is especially true of my more erotic fiction, and over the course of the past couple of days, most of my struggling has been with the POV of the main male character in the story. So, I decided that he needs to go. Not as in, cut him out completely, but as in tell the entire novel from the female protag's perspective. I think this will make for a far more emotionally powerful story in the long run, and I suspect a much smaller wordcount - which is good, because I think shorter is usually better for first-time novelists. Unless you're a sooper-genius with gobs of talent, which I'm not, in which case you can write whatever length you please.
Still not posting any excerpts yet. Believe me, you're not missing out on anything. :)
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