Jupiter and Within Temptation Appreciation

[gothrockrulz]

OH. MAH. GAWD. This song has blown me away. Teru, I'm in love with your guitar solo, and ZIN, I wantz your eyelashes NOW. Hizaki, I want to steal your entire wardrobe, as always. Excuse me while I listen to this on loop forever.

And here I'm already fangirling over Within Temptation's "HYDRA", which just came in the mail this week. I don't know what's more awesome, listening to their original songs, or their covers. Literally, I cannot fathom the awesomeness that is this band, even if they are my favorite of favorites. :)

Speaking of favorites, I'm going to make lyric videos of "Let Us Burn" and the "Radioactive" cover. We'll see how long that takes.

Now, off I go to write. I'm really, really intimidated right now, since I fear my WIP will need major restructuring into a trilogy (did I say that already?), but at this point, I want it done. Even if it's crap, I wanted it to be finished crap, rather than unfinished crap.

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[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

Even if it's crap, I wanted it to be finished crap, rather than unfinished crap.

Sometimes it's good to think of the first draft as the "crap draft" and give yourself permission to make it crappy because it's all the more rewarding when you can edit and re-shape it into a "good draft". Right now, I'm calling my "first" draft "draft-0" because there is a HUGE sub-plot that I haven't quite figured out yet. But I know that if I keep putting off writing until I've figured this sub-plot out, I'll probably never start. I plan on straightening out this sub-plot once the major groundwork is laid out in the Draft-0.

I've never re-shaped a single story to accommodate an expanded series so I can't tell you from experience how to do that. (Typically I know going in how many books I plan on writing.) The best piece of advice I can give you is to make sure, even if it is the first book of a series, that it has a clear beginning, middle, and end. Having a clear idea where your MC begins vs. where they are at the end of the novel helps too.

[gothrockrulz.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's good to think of the first draft as the "crap draft" and give yourself permission to make it crappy because it's all the more rewarding when you can edit and re-shape it into a "good draft".

Yeah, crappy first draft is done. Now I'm in the third draft, and it's tough because I have a ton of sub plots and dropped plot points that I didn't explore in the first draft. LOL. I gotta remind myself to approach writing like drawing or painting--the foundation is always rough and ugly, but absolutely necessary.

The best piece of advice I can give you is to make sure, even if it is the first book of a series, that it has a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Yep, that's what I'm shooting for. I really liked my formatting for the first book and the second book, but since the first book ended up being HUGE, I need to split it in two. And I'm not sure exactly how I want to plot the journeys for my characters. When I had a two-book format, the first book was about eliminating all the enemies except one, and the second book was about finding that last, most powerful enemy. Now I have to decide if I want to devote two books to that last enemy, or just one.