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I have a nearly overwhelming urge to write a SV story structured around "The Prince." The chapter headings are almost perfect ("Of the Secretaries of Princes," for example, is the Martha chapter, not to mention the one about the Fortress), though "An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians" might have to go. See:
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Some people start with plots, I start with scenes and, apparently, titles. For the Martha story (tentatively "The Virtues"), I'm still waiting for the characters to tell me what happened to drive Martha out of Smallville. Lex doesn't quite know, Clark doesn't quite understand, and Martha doesn't like to talk about it. It's funny, because I know everything else about the story, including the four big budget-busting action scenes, and that's much more than I usually know when I start.
MustangSally makes me outline when we work together, and I should do it on my own. But I'm usually more interested in playing with structure or POV, such as the unreliable narrator. Outlines, and thus good endings, are definitely my weak point. The current Clex story is stalled because I realized that nothing's going on but the rent, and I don't believe "They have sex!" is naturally a plot the way "They fight crime!" is. There are a lot of pure relationship stories that I love -- Thamiris' spring readily to mind, because they have strong narrative arcs -- but I don't feel competent to write them.
Anyway, "The Prince: A Romance": Good idea, bad idea, indifferent?
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Some people start with plots, I start with scenes and, apparently, titles. For the Martha story (tentatively "The Virtues"), I'm still waiting for the characters to tell me what happened to drive Martha out of Smallville. Lex doesn't quite know, Clark doesn't quite understand, and Martha doesn't like to talk about it. It's funny, because I know everything else about the story, including the four big budget-busting action scenes, and that's much more than I usually know when I start.
MustangSally makes me outline when we work together, and I should do it on my own. But I'm usually more interested in playing with structure or POV, such as the unreliable narrator. Outlines, and thus good endings, are definitely my weak point. The current Clex story is stalled because I realized that nothing's going on but the rent, and I don't believe "They have sex!" is naturally a plot the way "They fight crime!" is. There are a lot of pure relationship stories that I love -- Thamiris' spring readily to mind, because they have strong narrative arcs -- but I don't feel competent to write them.
Anyway, "The Prince: A Romance": Good idea, bad idea, indifferent?
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