On best practices.
Oct. 26th, 2010 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leticiaI have a strange desire to write about a character with very severe social anxiety, to the 'on disability, can't leave the house' degree.
The basic premise of the story would be that this very lonely individual is writing fake lost and found classified ads to the local newspaper (which are usually free) because thousands of people will read them, and it's less lonely when you're communicating in some manner with other people. Even if they never talk back.
Then I'd take a sharp left turn into Urban Fantasy with 'Found' ad that attracts attention from all the wrong (and fortunately, right) sort of people, as it accidentally mirrors a lost macguffin.
The problem is: while it might be a redemptive story of a sort to win back this lonely, lost individual some human(oid) company, I don't want to make light of a very crippling condition or trivialize it in an 'and then it all just goes away with magic' sense. I also don't know how much trouble I'd have with consistency when it becomes convenient for the character to be dealing with lots of creatures for the plot without making it an impediment on the plot or in and of itself a 'why everything goes wrong' type plot point. (Your destined hero has low-functioning social anxiety disorder; how can you save the world NOW?!)
This is all a moot point because I'm a) a terrible author and b) have no discipline for writing and never finish anything longer than about 2000 words. (I've written more; I have a few worlds with 10k words in them, but that's not nearly finished. If it's longer than 2k words, I doesn't have focus to actually find a satisfactory conclusion.) Of course, it's almost November...
The basic premise of the story would be that this very lonely individual is writing fake lost and found classified ads to the local newspaper (which are usually free) because thousands of people will read them, and it's less lonely when you're communicating in some manner with other people. Even if they never talk back.
Then I'd take a sharp left turn into Urban Fantasy with 'Found' ad that attracts attention from all the wrong (and fortunately, right) sort of people, as it accidentally mirrors a lost macguffin.
The problem is: while it might be a redemptive story of a sort to win back this lonely, lost individual some human(oid) company, I don't want to make light of a very crippling condition or trivialize it in an 'and then it all just goes away with magic' sense. I also don't know how much trouble I'd have with consistency when it becomes convenient for the character to be dealing with lots of creatures for the plot without making it an impediment on the plot or in and of itself a 'why everything goes wrong' type plot point. (Your destined hero has low-functioning social anxiety disorder; how can you save the world NOW?!)
This is all a moot point because I'm a) a terrible author and b) have no discipline for writing and never finish anything longer than about 2000 words. (I've written more; I have a few worlds with 10k words in them, but that's not nearly finished. If it's longer than 2k words, I doesn't have focus to actually find a satisfactory conclusion.) Of course, it's almost November...
