My writing style has always been to write and see where the story takes me. Because of this style, my story SR (now formally titled Crimson & Ivory) has become a bit of a behemoth. Once RynRaven is given wings, I’ll be spending the remainder of 2018 scaling down SR, she’s much too large and the story is too cumbersome – for its own good, I will have to switch from pantser to planner – a role I am wholly uncomfortable with – I love to let my darlings set their own rules, go their own way and this has worked well enough for all my other stories. But my babies in SR shaped the world the rest of my characters live in, and they seem to ‘know’ this and as a result they expect a certain level of freedom. I fear I may not be able to control them
Sound weird? Sound bizarre? Perhaps as a writer I’ve crossed some line
SR is the birthplace of a fantastic race of creatures who are as varied and complex as the humans they live among. They are as passionate, they can be as depraved or empathetic and caring as we can be. And I love them, for all they are, and all they can and will be.
How will my roll (new roll) as planner take shape? Will I be merciless? Cold and calculating in the execution of cuts and revisions – will that murder the spirit of the story? Why do I fear being this way with that story? It’s silly – it really is. It’s well enough developed that some cuts and revisions will not hurt the overall vibe and voice of it. There’s a certain level of naiveite that I need to preserve so I believe I must adopt a hodgepodge approach to completing and polishing this story.
Writers serve a master that is their art