The Crisis is still occuring
Upon my spectacular failure to actually do Nanowrimo this year, I discovered again my interest in that terrible novel Crisis if Idealism: A Space Opera. Although I may have run a quick spelling edit of it last year, I am currently thinking over major plot changes and additions. I am considering how to best tell the story without having to rely on the focalisation through Jonathan Brooke, because he's such a crappy character.
And all of a sudden, without warning, old ideas about the story start flooding back, and new ones start pouring in, and again I'm obsessed with getting these ideas down. Right, this time. I have made a few major decisions already. The chapters, they might be out. Sections may titled instead by the character through which they are focalised. This, of course, is minor. But consider - Jonathan Brooke up until the end of the cast away section. A decade of life on an abondonded planet, not just a few months. Switch to Ignus Fortworth, and the day he receives a strange distress call from a nearby star. Ordered by the spacing commision to investigate, and suddenly, a message from Elder Lucas of Port Orpheus telling him to keep a lid on the mission.
Ten years of extra narrative time! What happened to all the other colonists that were supposed to follow jonathan? Their number has gone from twenty to hundreds in this edit by the way. Well, it seems out villian at the end of the story starts a war with them, disgusing his ships as alien craft - hence the needed construction of The Angel of Redemption. A whole bunch of plot holes clean up with this added narrative. More sides to the story, more plots, more excitement, more power in the surprise ending with the involvement of Lucas! Perhaps even the combination of Captain Fortworth and Grinder, since they're pretty much the same character anyway. It makes more sense. And the ability to write the scene this entire novel was based on, under the glassy buildings of the Port Orpheus space dock....
The excitment is killing me! Months of work, but I just don't care! It must be done....
And all of a sudden, without warning, old ideas about the story start flooding back, and new ones start pouring in, and again I'm obsessed with getting these ideas down. Right, this time. I have made a few major decisions already. The chapters, they might be out. Sections may titled instead by the character through which they are focalised. This, of course, is minor. But consider - Jonathan Brooke up until the end of the cast away section. A decade of life on an abondonded planet, not just a few months. Switch to Ignus Fortworth, and the day he receives a strange distress call from a nearby star. Ordered by the spacing commision to investigate, and suddenly, a message from Elder Lucas of Port Orpheus telling him to keep a lid on the mission.
Ten years of extra narrative time! What happened to all the other colonists that were supposed to follow jonathan? Their number has gone from twenty to hundreds in this edit by the way. Well, it seems out villian at the end of the story starts a war with them, disgusing his ships as alien craft - hence the needed construction of The Angel of Redemption. A whole bunch of plot holes clean up with this added narrative. More sides to the story, more plots, more excitement, more power in the surprise ending with the involvement of Lucas! Perhaps even the combination of Captain Fortworth and Grinder, since they're pretty much the same character anyway. It makes more sense. And the ability to write the scene this entire novel was based on, under the glassy buildings of the Port Orpheus space dock....
The excitment is killing me! Months of work, but I just don't care! It must be done....
posted by James @ 4:05 PM
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