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in which i beg shamelessly for your help
Nov. 20th, 2008 11:24 pmYou guys, I am cross and depressed and faintly nauseated, and ABC has proven themselves to be a fat lot of pillocks by cancelling Pushing Daisies, and I've pretty much eaten all of my candy, and I don't want to go to work tomorrow, and, worst of all, my NaNo has a PHD in horribleness, and not in the nifty-goggles, I-will-kill-you-all kind of way. SO MUCH EXPOSITION SANDWICHED IN BETWEEN POINTLESS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT NOTHING. There is no pacing, no imagination, and my characters are all flat cliches who aren't even consistent. Also I don't even know where my plot is. I'm seventy-odd pages in, and still no Primary Vampire. But then, I don't even know what the end goal of this novel is -- or, for that matter, WHY THERE IS A VAMPIRE PROBLEM. Seriously, this is...kind of a big deal. Like, I have this whole idiotic CRAZY LONG section in which people are trying to convince Evy that they really, really need her on the vampire fighting front. Except THEY CANNOT GIVE HER ANY GOOD REASONS FOR HER TO BE DRAGGED INTO THIS. There's a lot of "but!" and "what if?" that is mostly me fishing for ideas as I write.
Seriously, I have absolutely no idea why the vampires are a threat. I have a vague inkling as to why Evy might be especially useful, but that kind of falls flat when THERE IS NO PARTICULAR THREAT. It's just, oh hey, vampires are evil. Some could kill us. WE NEED YOU, EVANGELINE. Also there was a vampire attack on the library and about thirteen people died, but NO ONE KNOWS WHY. ASLJKGDWJDGDGH. And it's especially difficult because I'm trying to walk the line between inconsequential and lame and OBNOXIOUSLY EPIC. This means: no gigantic vampire army trying to overthrow the king and take over England AND THEN THE WORLLLLD. Vampires =/= human, anyway. They don't want the same things humans want. What they want, I have no idea. The only thing I've been able to fall back on in my head is the idea that there's something going on with vampires being experimented on because of the oncoming WWI, except -- did anyone know WWI was coming? At all? There was a lot of tension, though, I suppose, so anyone could be interested in making their own little vampire army. (See? Now I run up against things that sound stupid when you type them up. VAMPIRE. ARMY. *FACEPALM*) Heck, the Russians could be all "LET US OVERTHROW THE VICIOUS ROMANOVS WITH...VAMPIRES!" Even so, that idea hasn't turned into anything more than extremely murky thus far.
So, um, a little help here? I'm not asking for you to fix my plot here, but I am just...defeated. I am at the end of my writing rope. (See? I used a really limp cliche. That evidences how bad things have gotten.) I am desperate for some kind of inspiration.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Prompt me. Please. Anything. A song, a quote, a poem, a picture, a plot device, a suggestion. Anything. I need to write at least a thousand words before I go to bed.
Seriously, I have absolutely no idea why the vampires are a threat. I have a vague inkling as to why Evy might be especially useful, but that kind of falls flat when THERE IS NO PARTICULAR THREAT. It's just, oh hey, vampires are evil. Some could kill us. WE NEED YOU, EVANGELINE. Also there was a vampire attack on the library and about thirteen people died, but NO ONE KNOWS WHY. ASLJKGDWJDGDGH. And it's especially difficult because I'm trying to walk the line between inconsequential and lame and OBNOXIOUSLY EPIC. This means: no gigantic vampire army trying to overthrow the king and take over England AND THEN THE WORLLLLD. Vampires =/= human, anyway. They don't want the same things humans want. What they want, I have no idea. The only thing I've been able to fall back on in my head is the idea that there's something going on with vampires being experimented on because of the oncoming WWI, except -- did anyone know WWI was coming? At all? There was a lot of tension, though, I suppose, so anyone could be interested in making their own little vampire army. (See? Now I run up against things that sound stupid when you type them up. VAMPIRE. ARMY. *FACEPALM*) Heck, the Russians could be all "LET US OVERTHROW THE VICIOUS ROMANOVS WITH...VAMPIRES!" Even so, that idea hasn't turned into anything more than extremely murky thus far.
So, um, a little help here? I'm not asking for you to fix my plot here, but I am just...defeated. I am at the end of my writing rope. (See? I used a really limp cliche. That evidences how bad things have gotten.) I am desperate for some kind of inspiration.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Prompt me. Please. Anything. A song, a quote, a poem, a picture, a plot device, a suggestion. Anything. I need to write at least a thousand words before I go to bed.
