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Monthly Musings: Poke-lust edition (WIP spoiler warning)
2 months ago
Okay so this is beating my ass, mainly because My brain decided to obtusely shoehorn in kinda heavy shit halfway through what was SUPPOSED to be a sweet, if not LIGHTHEARTED story and here I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to actually incorporate it without destroying the atmosphere I'd spent TWENTY PAGES building... at this point it's not so much a request for advice as it is a quick vent so feel free to click off now if you don't want to read any spoilers.
So I wanted to add a fun little "public close call" hot spring bit, with a couple random one-off characters that could also serve for a little world building. but i'd gone off of some kind of deep end, made one of them a ninetales, and next thing I know, my brain was telling me I had to make Myra unreasonably hateful towards him, then get it shut down so she could enjoy the hot spring... ugh, I'd spent a good while just trying to give her a chance to relax, and here I am making her re-live trauma for the sake of plot (it's all fictional I know, but I swear to GOD my empathy centers are the BANE of my existence right now as I don't want to make her go through that, nor did I plan to make her go through that when I fucking STARTED the story) AHEM*... it's not like extreme extreme trauma, but it's more like a bunch of bad memories resurfacing and ruining the day, (and the flow of the story) but still I wanted the story to be lighthearted, with maybe a little bit of lore sprinkled in, and then I get to THE HOT SPRING INTRODUCTION SCENES AND SUDDENLY IT ALL FALLS APART (I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAAAAAR)... In case you couldn't tell by the wall of [REDACTED] i'm more than a little fried trying to make this work and I REALLY don't want to scrap this story... the way I wanted the introduction to go was for Myra to meet the trio, end up having a heart to heart with the Ninetales on their way TO the hotspring, Accidentally have her secret "cargo" revealed, and have shenanigans ensue at the hot spring... I'm just at a loss for what to do because I apparently don't know how to write a heart to heart that ISN'T fucking trauma based or excessively heavy... I'll admit I'm already a little too far into the hot-spring mini arc to just scrap what I've already written in it... so I feel like I don't have much choice but to roll with it and hope I can figure it out quickly.
vent done, i just needed to get it off of my chest and give myself a chance to actually sort out how I feel about the turn of events... (in the end by linkin park keeps playing in the background)
So I wanted to add a fun little "public close call" hot spring bit, with a couple random one-off characters that could also serve for a little world building. but i'd gone off of some kind of deep end, made one of them a ninetales, and next thing I know, my brain was telling me I had to make Myra unreasonably hateful towards him, then get it shut down so she could enjoy the hot spring... ugh, I'd spent a good while just trying to give her a chance to relax, and here I am making her re-live trauma for the sake of plot (it's all fictional I know, but I swear to GOD my empathy centers are the BANE of my existence right now as I don't want to make her go through that, nor did I plan to make her go through that when I fucking STARTED the story) AHEM*... it's not like extreme extreme trauma, but it's more like a bunch of bad memories resurfacing and ruining the day, (and the flow of the story) but still I wanted the story to be lighthearted, with maybe a little bit of lore sprinkled in, and then I get to THE HOT SPRING INTRODUCTION SCENES AND SUDDENLY IT ALL FALLS APART (I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAAAAAR)... In case you couldn't tell by the wall of [REDACTED] i'm more than a little fried trying to make this work and I REALLY don't want to scrap this story... the way I wanted the introduction to go was for Myra to meet the trio, end up having a heart to heart with the Ninetales on their way TO the hotspring, Accidentally have her secret "cargo" revealed, and have shenanigans ensue at the hot spring... I'm just at a loss for what to do because I apparently don't know how to write a heart to heart that ISN'T fucking trauma based or excessively heavy... I'll admit I'm already a little too far into the hot-spring mini arc to just scrap what I've already written in it... so I feel like I don't have much choice but to roll with it and hope I can figure it out quickly.
vent done, i just needed to get it off of my chest and give myself a chance to actually sort out how I feel about the turn of events... (in the end by linkin park keeps playing in the background)
That helped me get passed that, that and making a forum post asking for alternative ideas for that scene that basically nobody responded to. But hey those 2 people had decent ideas.
also, I ended up figuring it out like ten minutes after posting the journal. Turned out I actually HAD lost the plot of what I was trying to write, or rather, misremembered how I'd intended to write it, which tripped me up and made me spiral. either way, thanks for the advice, It definitely seems like it'll come in handy next time I have this kind of problem.
One thing I've started is writing out bullet points(or 4chan green text) of the story idea to keep the outline clear and keeping a lot of the details without having to write the whole story.
Like this one:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....t?usp=drivesdk
Admittedly, I went overboard on the details on that one. I'll commission the idea one day, maybe...