I wrote a novella a couple of years ago with the working title of Angelic Possession. Kinda nifty idea I thought. It came from an idle thought: You can be possessed by devils. Devils are, according to most scriptures, fallen angels. Devils can do nothing that angels cannot, or evil would be more powerful than good. So, ergo, angles can possess people as well.
The book stank. Unless you liked reading juvenile books filled with action and no character growth. Okay, there was character growth in one character, who only was on screen maybe one chapter. Lots of great action. I'm really good at writing action scenes. If you read this thing you'd think I suck at character though.
Did I mention I tend to leap from planning to writing to soon? This is what happens when you do that. Writers don't let Writers write to soon!
So, I thought to myself the other week, this is a really good idea, I just need to re-work it from the ground up. Should be pretty easy, I've already written it once before (poorly) so I should know where all of the minefields are.
So, here we go.
My plan:
I'm a big fan of two very different methods of writing and I find I write better when I combine them. I'm sure everyone out there has heard of the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson. I'm also a huge fan of Holly Lisle's How to Think Sideways.
I love how the Snowflake Method forces me to focus on the characters and the scenes. I love how HtTS forces me to brainstorm and track things in a very different way. I'm going to jump back and forth between the methods as the whim takes me.
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