Suddenly Bloodshed
Aug. 14th, 2007 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naomi_jaySo I hit 25k on Wild over the weekend and finally got to some redblooded werewolf action. Huzzah! Finally all those pages and pages of build-up exploring Lizzie's mental state, relationships, addictions and issues (many, many issues) have paid off in the form of murderous throat-ripping carnage. Then I realised that by the 25k stage in Fire and Moonlight, Scarlett had been kidnapped twice, torched an entire hospital and been threatened at gunpoint several times.
In comparison, Wild is pretty slow but I guess it's a different kind of story. Yes, there will totally be werewolves all over the place, there will be fights and politics and shocking personal revelations, but I think to show how everything that will happen truly affects Lizzie, I have to clearly show the kind of person she is before it all happens. And that's another worry for me - I don't know if Lizzie is a likeable protagonist. I'm pretty sure Scarlett is - she's loyal, compassionate and brave. Lizzie is a selfish woman living in a state of self-denial about her drug habit and I'm not sure people will relate to that. She changes throughout the book, naturally, but at the moment I've got 25k of a woman I personally wouldn't want to hang out with. Not that I don't like her as a character, but if she was a real person, I'd avoid her like ... a bad similie.
My critique partner is reading the first nine chapters and once I've heard her feedback, I'm thinking of taking it to Ricia for her thoughts. *ponders* I should probably attempt to write some kind of synopsis. Never fun, always necessary.
In comparison, Wild is pretty slow but I guess it's a different kind of story. Yes, there will totally be werewolves all over the place, there will be fights and politics and shocking personal revelations, but I think to show how everything that will happen truly affects Lizzie, I have to clearly show the kind of person she is before it all happens. And that's another worry for me - I don't know if Lizzie is a likeable protagonist. I'm pretty sure Scarlett is - she's loyal, compassionate and brave. Lizzie is a selfish woman living in a state of self-denial about her drug habit and I'm not sure people will relate to that. She changes throughout the book, naturally, but at the moment I've got 25k of a woman I personally wouldn't want to hang out with. Not that I don't like her as a character, but if she was a real person, I'd avoid her like ... a bad similie.
My critique partner is reading the first nine chapters and once I've heard her feedback, I'm thinking of taking it to Ricia for her thoughts. *ponders* I should probably attempt to write some kind of synopsis. Never fun, always necessary.
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on 2007-08-14 02:27 pm (UTC)How do you get your icons to change with the day? If i change mine, it changes all of them...
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on 2007-08-14 02:56 pm (UTC)When you post, there's an option above the posting screen - "picture to use" or something similar, so you can change from your default icon to another one.