I don't remember if I made a post today, but I have other things to say.
I'm enjoying my new perspectives, or rather my new voice. I find that there's a lot I want to talk about with writing lately and I find it really exciting. I think it has to do with the fact that my writing is really taking off in a direction that is positive and, so far, fruitful.
Tonight I talked with one of my friends about how he starts a story. As I have explained before, I play god in my stories. I create characters first and define a story for them that usually does not end happily. The characters come first, then the situation, and finally the world (which is sometimes an afterthought and perhaps not very well thought out with the exception being AGOHAC). He told me that he makes a clearly defined world first, then makes a few characters, and lets them tell him their story. I really enjoy this organic approach to writing and I think it is reflected well in what he writes.
I have been trying to focus on the world the story occurs in more. AGOHAC features a world (or at least a large aspect of the world) that governs the people and the way they live their lives, so it needs to have its center in the light. I feel like my problem lies in the fact that I make larger-than-life characters and they overshadow the world. So I'm trying to focus more on the subtle political influences that would affect the world of AGOHAC. In GAP, well I'm not really sure what I'm doing in GAP yet, but I'm trying to create a glorious world and a smaller, more humble protagonist. I have a lot of ideas for GAP, but the way we're writing it anything could happen.
So yeah, that is one of the things I'm working on to better my writing.
