Author: alassdragons

Writing Problem #999

Ok, I’m sure plenty of people have this problem, but honestly, I just need to say that I am TERRIBLE at maintaining a reasonable word count. Like. Really bad.

I’ll fastidiously plan out what I want to occur in each chapter, and suddenly—bam, I’ve written over 3000 words and I haven’t even gotten through 10% of what I want to say. Even in the editing process I struggle to cut down (if anything, I just add even more stuff on).

I suppose having a longer word count isn’t always a bad thing, but sometimes I worry that I’ve left in too many unnecessary details or descriptions, and that people will get bored reading it.

So…. yep. Basically, this post was inspired by the very likely possibility that the next chapter of Sixteen Rules is going to surpass the 7k word milestone (which isn’t even a record for me). Uh. Yeah. That’s pretty much it. Thank you for listening to my rambling.

((This kind of reminds me of a post @itsladykit​ made a while ago when she did her Drabble Night Short Story Weekend. It’s good to know I’m not the only one who suffers (sorry Kit).))

Complex Characterization: Blue

itsladykit:

Okay, so I mentioned that I had pretty strong feelings about this post, right? Right. Well, Fresh summed up my feelings about Edge/Fell pretty well. Rather than re-hashing what’s already been said, I’m going to take a look at another character: Blue, to be specific. My little discussion is below the cut, but before you venture down to take a look, please keep in mind that this is just my opinion. If you have other ideas about Blue’s characterization, that is A-OK by me. You do you. This is just the version of Blue I prefer to read and write about.

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