Desperately Seeking Conflict
Feb. 25th, 2005 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raefinlay*sigh* I have a problem.
I lurve to develop stuff. Building characters, creating setting, gradually revealing motivation and plot... I lurve it. I lurve it with passionate hotmonkey lurve.
Alas, no one wants to read such painstaking development. Readers want ACTION. They want to know what the story is about right up front, so they know whether to invest the time. This frolicking about with the reader, teasing him with veiled hints, sprinkling character insights... it's soooo last century.
This is the X-box society. We can drive a stick shift and talk on the cell phone and suck a mocha all at once. How does one write for such a culture? Well, not the way I've been writing, that's for sure.
I'm gonna have to think about this for a while.
On a somewhat related note, I finally got thedreaded anticipated EC review for Elisa 1. It was slightly less devastating than expected. As well as helpful, dead-on, and all that stuff. Funny, Ms. Smith-Gaynor said exactly the same thing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
everyonesakitty told me right after I posted it. Holly is Teh Smart.
And now, I must watch Angel. Because it's Friday night and Friday nights are Whedon nights.
I lurve to develop stuff. Building characters, creating setting, gradually revealing motivation and plot... I lurve it. I lurve it with passionate hotmonkey lurve.
Alas, no one wants to read such painstaking development. Readers want ACTION. They want to know what the story is about right up front, so they know whether to invest the time. This frolicking about with the reader, teasing him with veiled hints, sprinkling character insights... it's soooo last century.
This is the X-box society. We can drive a stick shift and talk on the cell phone and suck a mocha all at once. How does one write for such a culture? Well, not the way I've been writing, that's for sure.
I'm gonna have to think about this for a while.
On a somewhat related note, I finally got the
everyonesakitty told me right after I posted it. Holly is Teh Smart.And now, I must watch Angel. Because it's Friday night and Friday nights are Whedon nights.
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Date: 2005-02-26 04:40 am (UTC)For you every night is a Whedon night. You no longer spend time with your friends you're so busy with Whedon! :P ;) *seeths in jealousy*
;)
Dude, you do have conflict, but it's more... subtle. It's not outright conflict. And while some people appreciate it, the wider audience will probably appreciate a more outright conflict, like you've said.
As to how to do that... I suppose it depends on the story, right? Some stories will have subtle conflicts, and others will have lots of Scary Danger. *shrug*
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Date: 2005-02-26 04:48 am (UTC)*wants Scary Danger in WIP*
*tickles Jodi with whole wheat fettucini noodles (cooked al dente)*
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Date: 2005-02-26 04:52 am (UTC)*but tickled, first*
:D