Getting Darker
September 23rd, 2007
I’ve been struck in the head by an idea! I’m still working on my book BD- it’s a slow process at this point but I expect it to pick up soon and I’m toying with an idea for another book, mayhaps shorter, that I’ll just call RAC for short. Basically, I just created a character and title that I really like and no storyline to attach them to. So, I’m working on it.
Anyways, this idea I’m working on- let’s call it Nmd. for short. I only came up with it about an hour an a half ago but already I have all my characters and their pasts set. Since characters make plot that’s quite a bit as far as I’m concerned. :)
I don’t want to say too much but it’s about three young girls. A foster child, a throw-away, and a runaway who band together and go to the safest place they’ve ever known; the streets. As I look at it from a distance I can see a large part of myself taken to extremes in each and every one of them. It worries me a little. A lot of what I’m going to be writing is from either first hand experience or real life knowledge about what has happened to others who were in a similar situation. It’ll be dark and depression with some happy moments thrown in but overall very real and possibly hardcore.
It’ll still be fiction but quite a bit darker than my usual stuff and considering the fact that I generally write fantasy or scifi type stuff… well, yeah… this is a wee bit different. If you’ve read some of my previous posts you know I’ve been a little concerned about my style of writing changing. It’s not the change that frightens me, in fact I view it as an adventure in it’s self. What worries me is that my style or ideas for scenes and stories are getting darker. I still have my happy endings for the most part but I’m putting my characters through a lot more hell and adding quite a bit more violence in some areas. Do I have some weird fascination with pain and suffering that’s starting to surface? Or am I just a naturally morbid person who’s been slightly repressed? Both? This does worry me. I’m not sure why, but it does and that’s all I really have to say on the matter.
I like to see the hero suffer and the good guys struggle. It makes it all more worth while in the end but the fascination goes further than that when I’m writing. Hmm, perhaps I’m looking into it too far. I’m too philosophical for my own good and my mind is so deep I’m constantly on the verge of falling over the edge and sinking into the vast abyss.
