Brief One: Proposal
I will be working with Blogger
in order to develop my writing to a standard that I feel is ready for
publishing. To do this, I will be learning skills to read back and analyse my
work and try to flesh out side characters more, rather than make them more
two-dimensional. I also want to make the main character’s motivations more
prominent and make it clear to the audience what they are going through and
what their thought processes are. Part of this will be done through the
exploration of emotions that my characters go through, which will be difficult
because it is only from third person subjective point of view from one
character. This will mean that I have to show what the love interest is feeling
through his body language and facial movements.
Things that I will have to do
in order to accomplish this, is first of all finish the first draft of my piece
of writing. While writing the first draft, I will write a few side stories to
flesh out some of the characters other than the main character, and I will also
think about what it is I want to convey to the readers. After I have finished a
first draft, I will read through it and start to make notes where I would
change something or add in an extra scene. I will document this progress
through a diary and make notes about what I do and when I do it, possibly in a
separate tab on my Wordpress blog. My posts each week will be one scene that I
have written for each chapter, maybe two or three depending on how much I have
written, as there are going to be fifteen chapters overall. I will also include
the poem that each chapter is based around, so that I can show how I am
relating the writing I am doing now back to what I wrote when I was sixteen to
eighteen years old.
·
Week Five
o Introduction to the
story, what I am basing it on and the characters
o Chapter one poem
and scene
·
Week Six
o Chapter two poem
and scene
o Chapter three poem
and scene
o Brief reflection on
how I am developing story and characters
·
Week Seven
o Chapter four poem
and scene
o Chapter five poem
and scene
o Reflection
·
Week Eight
o Chapter six poem
and scene
o Chapter seven poem
and scene
o Reflection
·
Week Nine
o Chapter eight poem
and scene
o Chapter nine poem
and scene
o Reflection
·
Week Ten
o Chapter ten poem
and scene
o Chapter eleven poem
and scene
o Reflection
·
Week Eleven
o Chapter twelve poem
and scene
o Chapter thirteen
poem and scene
o Reflection
·
Week Twelve
o Chapter fourteen
poem and scene
o Chapter fifteen
poem and scene
o Longer reflection
on the overall work to give me something to start with when it comes to the
second reflection post
In order to assess how well I
am staying on task, I will read back over what I have and determine if it has
the right level of detail and what purpose the side characters are serving. In
previous works, I fall into the trop of using side characters as tools for the
plot in order to move the main story line along, rather than flesh them out and
give them their own motivations and in many cases their own personalities. I
will reflect on this and think about how I am representing them in the
narrative and decide whether or not I need to give them their own scenes away
from the main plot so that I can make them more engaging and interesting for
the readers. I will also try to assess whether or not I made the main character
well rounded enough that the reader than relate to him, as I want his actions
to be fairly justified. Even if what he does seems to not be very responsible,
I want the readers to be able to understand why he is doing it and what his
reasons are.
One of the ways to assess if I
am doing this well enough will be using second opinions to gage how well I am
doing. I have two people in mind who I can ask to read through what I have
already, one of which is studying creative writing at Western Michigan
University, and another has graduated with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in
Creative Writing from AUT, and is going into her masters for creative writing
next year. Through the feedback that they give me I will be able to make edits
to my work and outline where I need to make changes.
In terms of redrafting, I will
be referring to an article that published author Sam Blake, (known for the Cat
Connolly trilogy), wrote about second drafts and areas that need to be payed
attention to. She touches on areas that I know I struggle with personally,
especially in regards to plot, characters and repetition in languages (unknown
year, Blake).
References
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