At some point i need to actually dractivate me side blog, put up the profile picture on that blog as my profile picture on here, and write a proper writeblr intro post.
Today is not going to be that day. But! I do have writing news to share. First up, I am backburnering my campire story. I love my characters, but I have been trying to beat this plot into submission for over a decade. I've lost count of what draft I'm on. And I just genuinely don't know what might actually ve salvageable. So, I'm putting it up. I still want to finish my scene/character arc analysese, simply because they are being done on a program that isn't available for Linux. So, if I don't finish it and export it to a format readable by another program, all that work will be lost when I finally make the switch.
This decision actually came while reading through the course description of a writing class I'm taking. One of the lessons is on how to tell when a project isn't working, and how to salvage the goid bits to use elsewhere. Something about the description of that lesson really resonated with me. So, I guess we'll see how I feel about it when I actually read the whole lesson in a few months.
In the meantime, I'm going to concentrate on my romance novel and my fanfiction.
Which brings me to yesterday's epiphany about my romance novel. I was writing my FMC's (tentative name is Evelyn, but I'll probably be changing it) character sheet and found myself staring at one line for like 5 minutes. I ended up putting my notebook down and was pacing around my room going "holy shit, holy shit, holy shit."
So, here's the epiphany. There's a line in the section "the truth behind what she thinks she knows" about her mother being obsessed with her social obligations because she wanted to cultivate friendships with the influential women in society, in order to get help finding an escape for her daughters. Well, Lucas's (my MMC, name subject to change) father is a marquess. As a marchioness, his mother could have been one of those influential women Evelyn's mother was trying to get help from. Which led me to them knowing damn well about the secret courtship between Evelyn and Lucas, and were making plans to use the Carlysle name to get Evelyn out from under her stepfather's thumb.
So, I think the prologue that this book needs because of how the premise makes the beginning play out otherwise just might be in one or both mothers' POV.
