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Oct. 23rd, 2002 08:03 pmOk, I hasn't even started yet and I'm already having a crisis. :P
I'm trying to decide if I want to pitch the YA bit and write it normal fantasy. Well, dark fantasy.
See, there's things I'd like to be in there that I'm not sure I can tone down enough for YA. A big part of that is the ending. I know how I want it to end...sorta...but I don't know why. Vengence plays a very large part of what happens....It's possible that it won't be a very happy ending, though, because the girl becomes very bitter and stuff while she's locked up. I'm still pretty unsure on the ending, really. I know what has to happen, I'm just not quite sure how or why.
See, the orignal story, that I wrote on a whim back in like the 12th grade, went something like this: "Sleeping Beauty wasn't really asleep. She was locked in the castle with the dragon, and she was awake the whole time. She became friends with the dragon, who used her magic to keep them alive. After 100 years, a prince came to wake the sleeping beauty and live happily ever after. Instead, they killed him and ate him. Free at last, they flew off into the sky, and lived happily ever after." So yeah.
Last year, I was doing a lot of outlining on this concept, because I thought I could stretch it in to a neat dark fantasy novel. This is the result of that. As you can see, I was unsure about the ending even then. (Many of the names and some of the concepts have changed since then, but it's a pretty fair outline still, at least for the first 1/2 or so and then the very (unknown) end).
A few months ago, I thought I could turn this YA with no problems, but now I'm not so sure. I think I'd rather it be a dark fantasy thing, actually. I don't know...meh. I think I'll think on it for another day or two. I'm leaning towards the darker stuff, tho. I might just leave the ending questions until I get there.
I'm trying to decide if I want to pitch the YA bit and write it normal fantasy. Well, dark fantasy.
See, there's things I'd like to be in there that I'm not sure I can tone down enough for YA. A big part of that is the ending. I know how I want it to end...sorta...but I don't know why. Vengence plays a very large part of what happens....It's possible that it won't be a very happy ending, though, because the girl becomes very bitter and stuff while she's locked up. I'm still pretty unsure on the ending, really. I know what has to happen, I'm just not quite sure how or why.
See, the orignal story, that I wrote on a whim back in like the 12th grade, went something like this: "Sleeping Beauty wasn't really asleep. She was locked in the castle with the dragon, and she was awake the whole time. She became friends with the dragon, who used her magic to keep them alive. After 100 years, a prince came to wake the sleeping beauty and live happily ever after. Instead, they killed him and ate him. Free at last, they flew off into the sky, and lived happily ever after." So yeah.
Last year, I was doing a lot of outlining on this concept, because I thought I could stretch it in to a neat dark fantasy novel. This is the result of that. As you can see, I was unsure about the ending even then. (Many of the names and some of the concepts have changed since then, but it's a pretty fair outline still, at least for the first 1/2 or so and then the very (unknown) end).
A few months ago, I thought I could turn this YA with no problems, but now I'm not so sure. I think I'd rather it be a dark fantasy thing, actually. I don't know...meh. I think I'll think on it for another day or two. I'm leaning towards the darker stuff, tho. I might just leave the ending questions until I get there.
