Aftermath and plans

Spent the day on my latest game review. Puzzle game. It's frying my brain. I feel like I need to play something dumb and senseless now but I can't find my copy of GTA5. Oh well. I suppose I'll have to work on productive things, instead.

Instead I'll be working on some of the side projects I can't quite share yet. Fun stuff, but I need to get things secured before I mention them. And I suppose there's still the prequel stuff to research, too.

So with all the research and writing I'm working on, I've been thinking about what is really important to a story. I mean, there's a good chance I'll need to cut even more out of The Paladin if I want an agent to give me a second glance so I suppose it makes sense. That's why I'm doing this "prequel" story. It's very unlikely to ever get released, but by writing out everything that happened before my MS, I can get an idea of where everyone was, what everyone wanted, and the path that things would logically have to take. It'll help me figure out the stuff that's key to my main story and what's fluff.

I think just about any writer would like to think they don't really have fluff, but that's really unlikely. I need to sort through every scene, see what motivations the characters have, what their actions would do to things that are "offscreen," and figure out how crucial each and every scene is to the overall picture. I need to ask myself, "does this serve the greater plot?" Is someone's motivation revealed or pushed forward? Can this information be revealed somewhere else? Does it make logical sense for this even to flow into the next, especially with the "offscreen" scenes. 

So yeah. Gotta prepare for the cuts. And in the meantime, figure out if WattPad is a good idea or not. And if not, there's a new site that's dropped onto my radar called Curious Fictions which seems like a cross between Patreon and WattPad. Not sure what to make of it at the moment, but I'm curious to learn more.

Until tomorrow....

Be Excellent to Each Other