GARG!

[forsyth]

I'm frustrated with me. Not for the slowish pace of my writing, that has me barely halfway to where I should be, but because I don't think I'm getting the right tone. This doesn't feel like a rock opera, even though I'm only at 10K words. I feel like an indie band trying to cover a rock opera, but I can't just get the feel right, I can't get the soaring epic sense of things, I just get people talking in cafes. Maybe I just can't let go of being detached and self-aware and throwing myself into the thing with all the bombast and emotion and everything, or maybe I just need to kick the characters in the ass and get them on the road. And I kinda suspect I've written myself into a corner of sorts by making one of the characters more skeptical than he needs to be, but I think I've got a way around that, maybe the best way to get out of the corner is just to smash a hole in one of the walls.

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[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Man seriously me, what's with this whole thing of writing what should be an awesome action fight scene as this lame chase where people are throwing clothes in demons faces, instead of duking it out in awesome epic combat? Where's the awesome, me?