Insufferable Week 16

Aug 22, 2012

Up on Thrillbent right now.  I have to admit, I really do have mixed feelings about Galahad, and my opinion of him changes from week to week. In some ways, I'm still trying to figure him out; I thought I knew him and what makes him tick, and then he quite literally starts saying things that I couldn't have predicted sixteen weeks ago. I've said this before about story structure-I think it's important to know where you're going with your narrative (we do), and it's critical to have a strong beginning, but at least in my case, the more advance planning I do, the more stale it feels when I get to certain long-planned moments.  So I try to avoid those. I liken it to setting out to L.A. from Florida by car, committing to taking US 75 to US 10W and a general time frame, but giving myself full permission to take spontaneous detours if I think they'll make the trip more exciting or if I'll learn new things along the way. Anyone who says they have every last little detail of their multi-part epic planned out right to every period and comma is either lying or a crash-test dummy.  (Or Jonathan Hickman, sui generis he.)