I've always avoided proper historical fiction because of the research involved and the fear of not getting attitudes correct. After all, we can't just port back the sort of behaviours we see in our society. That said, I saw a series of images whilst pootling the other night that really makes me want to try for something about 1400AD.
However, my get out clause in any of this is 'alternate histories'. Yeah, it's a cop out, I know, but part of me wants to try it some day. Maybe not tonight though.
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Why this Blog?
I hope that this blog will become a place to look after my writing ideas and that, over time, I can use it to archive all my favourite creative sites on the web. Maybe others will enjoy it too.
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Random Ideas
One idea that constantly occurs to me, after I've got past the world building of most of my novel plans and the like, is the idea of having a main character who is not the character through which we view the story. I don't just mean by having the story in third person omniscient either, I mean by having the standard third person view but multiple POV characters who all interact with the character about whom the story and plot is.
Put another way, it would be like reading Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books but from the points of view of Harris, Harper, Wellington etc rather than centring on Sharpe himself. So you'd have the story of Sharpe's Rifles told by various members of his regiment, with Sharpe appearing at various points, then a gap until he appears to rescue Harper and the rest from the ambush and so on and so forth. It would be very difficult to write but it would be really interesting. Mainly to see if I could actually create that many realistic characters who would be 'real' enough to follow. Each one would have their vignette and, slowly, it would become apparent that the plot was following someone else, someone who featured in all of the other stories.
I'd have to actually write it, though, and the lack of posting here would seem to suggest that this would be difficult. However, the point of this blog is to spur my typing and I seem to get a groove on every year. When it happens this year I just have a place to put it all.
Put another way, it would be like reading Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books but from the points of view of Harris, Harper, Wellington etc rather than centring on Sharpe himself. So you'd have the story of Sharpe's Rifles told by various members of his regiment, with Sharpe appearing at various points, then a gap until he appears to rescue Harper and the rest from the ambush and so on and so forth. It would be very difficult to write but it would be really interesting. Mainly to see if I could actually create that many realistic characters who would be 'real' enough to follow. Each one would have their vignette and, slowly, it would become apparent that the plot was following someone else, someone who featured in all of the other stories.
I'd have to actually write it, though, and the lack of posting here would seem to suggest that this would be difficult. However, the point of this blog is to spur my typing and I seem to get a groove on every year. When it happens this year I just have a place to put it all.
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Mission Statement
When I get this place up and running I suspect that I'll make this a page rather than the first post, but I'm conscious of the need to post something here so that I actually remember to post here with creative projects.
This is designed as a blog for me writing stuff. An author's blog if you will where, instead of confessionals about my life and stuff, I blog about ideas and half-formed things. There will likely be everything from half-baked plots and synopses through to scenes and conversations that serve as fragments of some larger pieces. I hope to post a few short stories, too, the kind that are too short to ever really be published but may well provide somebody, somewhere, with a few minutes of interest.
It is designed to be public and open, so if there is strong language it will be plot related and I'll signpost it as such. I may tackle more adult-y themes but not in a 'adult = porn' way - I mean my writings are designed for, well, me, and so probably not always appropriate for young'uns without some adulty guidance along the way.
Who knows, I may even garner a readership that will comment on what I write - even they just say whether or not they like it. Anyway, that'll do for now.
This is designed as a blog for me writing stuff. An author's blog if you will where, instead of confessionals about my life and stuff, I blog about ideas and half-formed things. There will likely be everything from half-baked plots and synopses through to scenes and conversations that serve as fragments of some larger pieces. I hope to post a few short stories, too, the kind that are too short to ever really be published but may well provide somebody, somewhere, with a few minutes of interest.
It is designed to be public and open, so if there is strong language it will be plot related and I'll signpost it as such. I may tackle more adult-y themes but not in a 'adult = porn' way - I mean my writings are designed for, well, me, and so probably not always appropriate for young'uns without some adulty guidance along the way.
Who knows, I may even garner a readership that will comment on what I write - even they just say whether or not they like it. Anyway, that'll do for now.
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