Weird Questions, L, and Warm Sake
I sat here earlier with a cup of warm sake--yes, I have a bottle of sake--trying to piece together a few things on Vitamin F. Right now, I've reached the brunt of the climax. Chapter 50 has turned out to be a beast, currently running about 18 pages. It would have been longer, but I lost a file completely and had to rewrite that content from scratch.
Note for the future: don't lose text that contains the death of a major character.
I've been lucky so far. Fifty chapters and I've only lost one file of text. Damn lucky if you ask me. And, yes, I've been backing my files up. A friend suggested I should start making hard copies as well, although that will get expensive quick.
On the topic of Vitamin F, I was discussing it with one of the beta readers, Megan, and we discussed the twist the story takes in Chapter 14. Not long after I clarify the twist to her, she asks me a very simple, yet odd, question. "If you had the chance to live as a girl for seven days, would you do it?" I had to get her to explain her question, and why she was asking it.
Megan wanted to know if I was given the option to change that one fact for seven days, keeping everything else just the way it is and everyone act just the same, would I do it. She also pointed out that she thought it would be interesting to do that, or to live as a kid again, or be an old person for a week. It was the whole point of view issue again, and, when I found that out, I wiped the figurative sweat from my brow. As a person who tries to be logical when possible and as a writer, there's really only one answer to the question she asked.
Still, to be asked such a thing, it put me into a seriously weird place. It's one thing to be asked to imagine walking around in someone else's shoes, but to be asked to see those shoes as having been mine in the first place... my skull was about ready to pop.
There are two really good things about this. I'm fairly certain what the last chapter of Vitamin F is going to be now. And I know that the whole understanding other people idea is definately coming across because of the book.
Note for the future: don't lose text that contains the death of a major character.
I've been lucky so far. Fifty chapters and I've only lost one file of text. Damn lucky if you ask me. And, yes, I've been backing my files up. A friend suggested I should start making hard copies as well, although that will get expensive quick.
On the topic of Vitamin F, I was discussing it with one of the beta readers, Megan, and we discussed the twist the story takes in Chapter 14. Not long after I clarify the twist to her, she asks me a very simple, yet odd, question. "If you had the chance to live as a girl for seven days, would you do it?" I had to get her to explain her question, and why she was asking it.
Megan wanted to know if I was given the option to change that one fact for seven days, keeping everything else just the way it is and everyone act just the same, would I do it. She also pointed out that she thought it would be interesting to do that, or to live as a kid again, or be an old person for a week. It was the whole point of view issue again, and, when I found that out, I wiped the figurative sweat from my brow. As a person who tries to be logical when possible and as a writer, there's really only one answer to the question she asked.
Still, to be asked such a thing, it put me into a seriously weird place. It's one thing to be asked to imagine walking around in someone else's shoes, but to be asked to see those shoes as having been mine in the first place... my skull was about ready to pop.
There are two really good things about this. I'm fairly certain what the last chapter of Vitamin F is going to be now. And I know that the whole understanding other people idea is definately coming across because of the book.
Labels: Inspiration, Writing Progress
posted by LEN! at 2:40 AM
2 Comments:
Ok, that explains the weird questions and sake part, but I dont get the L in the title. Was Deathnote on in the background?
Think Roman numerals. L is 50, which is the chapter I'm currently cleaning up on Vitamin F.
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