WIP report: 23 Jun 2021
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sleeplesspotatoAnother delayed post for last week. ^^;; I'm hoping the rest of my writing schedule won't be as delayed.
Castlevania OT3. I've gotten to the meaty part of 21 Days to a Novel: figuring out character arcs and how to arrange the plot events. This is when I realize (again, since I've been using these for a while) that the exercises live up to their name -- I have 3 main characters with somewhat separate arcs that each have to come to a satisfying conclusion, and that takes more chapters than I thought I'd need initially. In writing my way through these exercises I've come to a better understanding of the story I want to tell; my main concern is that Sypha's arc seems to be largely in support of Trevor's and Alucard's, and I'm a bit unhappy about that. (She's awesome and deserves to be the heroine of her own story, dammit.) I also realized that the anime quickly introduces Sypha as a Speaker mage at the beginning of season 1 then kind of forgets about her background up until around halfway through season 4, and I found myself asking things like, What's the culture of her people? What's it like living as an itinerant mage and scholar, helping the communities you encounter without expecting anything in return? In fleshing out Sypha's character I've had to answer these questions for myself; her character in the games is rather different as far as I can tell, so I stuck to what was in the anime and extrapolated from there.
I hope I can finish this in around 50k words* or less; I'll try to trim out any unnecessary bits during revisions. (So far, one biggish subplot has sprung out of Trevor's and Alucard's story arcs and will likely intertwine with Sypha's. It seems like I have to keep it for now.)
* 21 Days to a Novel assumes that the novel resulting from the exercises will be around 80k-100k words. I can't see myself writing that many words, but I suppose I'll find out eventually.
Castlevania OT3. I've gotten to the meaty part of 21 Days to a Novel: figuring out character arcs and how to arrange the plot events. This is when I realize (again, since I've been using these for a while) that the exercises live up to their name -- I have 3 main characters with somewhat separate arcs that each have to come to a satisfying conclusion, and that takes more chapters than I thought I'd need initially. In writing my way through these exercises I've come to a better understanding of the story I want to tell; my main concern is that Sypha's arc seems to be largely in support of Trevor's and Alucard's, and I'm a bit unhappy about that. (She's awesome and deserves to be the heroine of her own story, dammit.) I also realized that the anime quickly introduces Sypha as a Speaker mage at the beginning of season 1 then kind of forgets about her background up until around halfway through season 4, and I found myself asking things like, What's the culture of her people? What's it like living as an itinerant mage and scholar, helping the communities you encounter without expecting anything in return? In fleshing out Sypha's character I've had to answer these questions for myself; her character in the games is rather different as far as I can tell, so I stuck to what was in the anime and extrapolated from there.
I hope I can finish this in around 50k words* or less; I'll try to trim out any unnecessary bits during revisions. (So far, one biggish subplot has sprung out of Trevor's and Alucard's story arcs and will likely intertwine with Sypha's. It seems like I have to keep it for now.)
* 21 Days to a Novel assumes that the novel resulting from the exercises will be around 80k-100k words. I can't see myself writing that many words, but I suppose I'll find out eventually.
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Date: 2021-06-24 04:17 am (UTC)I'm still excited for your fic! And I love that you're fleshing Sypha's backstory out more. It does seem like the show sort of sidelined the "Speaker" part of her backstory in favor of just "Mage." I look forward to seeing what you come up with!