I just have a couple of questions to aid me in my writing.
I've written the first draft, and will now be going back and re-writing it. I think I will be aiming at the English Fantasy market in length. So might be an idea to keep that in mind. Ok, the questions then.
1) I have a scene where creatures of 2 different species meet each other for the first time. They have no common method of communication. I want both sides of the confrontation to be understood, but dont think writing the chapter twice from 2 POV would be very good, I actually believe it might be too confusing forthe reader. Currently what I have done is divide the chapter into 2 parts, the first deals with one species, the 2nd with the other. Does this seem feasible? Or will that be frowned upon? Should I do the 2 chapter method as stated above, which I dont really want to do....... any thoughts would be nice.
2) Along similar lines, but my problem here is that I have in reality 3 scenes that are in essence the 1 scene. I have 2 creatures fighting on top of a cliff, so I start with them, being from the POV of the creature that was upthere first casting his magic (there is a slight POV shift for a few paragraphs due to the spell being cast, another character is looking through the POV characters eyes). During the fight the other combatant is thrown from the cliff. Here is where I have my confusion. So I have 2 on the cliff, then a bunch at the base of the cliff, then more waiting in the trees watching those at the base of the cliff... sounds great doesnt it. Is there any problem having all this in one chapter? I completed the stuff at the top of the cliff before I switched POV to those at the bottom, and the scene at the bottom is reasonably important to the story line. I could remove the bit where I go to the watchers. Any ideas, or too confusing.
I suppose, with these above 2 questions, if anyone wishes I can send them the chapter in question and see how they think I should handle it.
3) Theres a section at the start I am rewriting, and wanted to make sure the way I was doing it sounded ok. I have 2 groups meeting in one spot (the scene in question 1), what I am considering doing is following the events of 1 group up to that spot, then going to the 2nd group and doing them from a few weeks before the scene and working up to it, then doing the scene as above (q1)
Boy I am a confusing person.
You'll see I mention 'species' and no common method of communication. Well, I am not talking orcs and elves. I am talking humans and wolves. Wolves are the main characters of the story, and the humans, to a degree, are the bad guys. Any thoughts on my 3 questions would be more than welocme.
I've written the first draft, and will now be going back and re-writing it. I think I will be aiming at the English Fantasy market in length. So might be an idea to keep that in mind. Ok, the questions then.
1) I have a scene where creatures of 2 different species meet each other for the first time. They have no common method of communication. I want both sides of the confrontation to be understood, but dont think writing the chapter twice from 2 POV would be very good, I actually believe it might be too confusing forthe reader. Currently what I have done is divide the chapter into 2 parts, the first deals with one species, the 2nd with the other. Does this seem feasible? Or will that be frowned upon? Should I do the 2 chapter method as stated above, which I dont really want to do....... any thoughts would be nice.
2) Along similar lines, but my problem here is that I have in reality 3 scenes that are in essence the 1 scene. I have 2 creatures fighting on top of a cliff, so I start with them, being from the POV of the creature that was upthere first casting his magic (there is a slight POV shift for a few paragraphs due to the spell being cast, another character is looking through the POV characters eyes). During the fight the other combatant is thrown from the cliff. Here is where I have my confusion. So I have 2 on the cliff, then a bunch at the base of the cliff, then more waiting in the trees watching those at the base of the cliff... sounds great doesnt it. Is there any problem having all this in one chapter? I completed the stuff at the top of the cliff before I switched POV to those at the bottom, and the scene at the bottom is reasonably important to the story line. I could remove the bit where I go to the watchers. Any ideas, or too confusing.
I suppose, with these above 2 questions, if anyone wishes I can send them the chapter in question and see how they think I should handle it.
3) Theres a section at the start I am rewriting, and wanted to make sure the way I was doing it sounded ok. I have 2 groups meeting in one spot (the scene in question 1), what I am considering doing is following the events of 1 group up to that spot, then going to the 2nd group and doing them from a few weeks before the scene and working up to it, then doing the scene as above (q1)
Boy I am a confusing person.
You'll see I mention 'species' and no common method of communication. Well, I am not talking orcs and elves. I am talking humans and wolves. Wolves are the main characters of the story, and the humans, to a degree, are the bad guys. Any thoughts on my 3 questions would be more than welocme.
