Pain...pain...
Aug. 24th, 2008 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonionayI'm attacking the book 1 rewrite. If, by the end of the Labor Day write-a-thon, I haven't figured out what the heck I'm doing, I'm sending it out as-is.
The biggest problem is my watery antagonist. My heroes tend to be their own worst enemies, but that's no excuse not to have a kick-ass bad guy. Things get unnecessarily complicated as I twist everyone into the positions I need them in. And, I wasn't willing to let Secondary Bad Guy take any strong actions against the MC, because I want him to be all deep and complicated. "Well, I really don't like him...but I don't really want to kill him..." None of that anymore, Secondary Bad Guy. You can change your mind later, but right now you just want to kill him.
The biggest problem is my watery antagonist. My heroes tend to be their own worst enemies, but that's no excuse not to have a kick-ass bad guy. Things get unnecessarily complicated as I twist everyone into the positions I need them in. And, I wasn't willing to let Secondary Bad Guy take any strong actions against the MC, because I want him to be all deep and complicated. "Well, I really don't like him...but I don't really want to kill him..." None of that anymore, Secondary Bad Guy. You can change your mind later, but right now you just want to kill him.
