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I'm trying to write this post in the pub, which is kinda strange but the idea was I was going to try and be a bit productive before I go home. Draftwise I'm still hovering round the 94k mark so with a bit of work I should reach 95k by the end of the night. I managed to write a bit more of the Rob scene where he's in his Belgravia apartment sad about leaving his career. Introduced Ellie (who's a very minor character, related to Laurence who is Tom's first love) as a sympathetic ear.
I really do need to do some kind of beat sheet if I'm going to reconstruct this. Make sure it is actually going to be two novels with their own arcs. I have a lot more plot points to get down before this is going to be suitable for reading. I am definitely on the search for someone to thrash this out with.
It's surprisingly quiet in here, more so than the library which is plagued by people talking extremely loudly on their mobile phones. This is highly annoying when you're trying to concentrate on a scene. It's a freaking library. I don't think that I am asking too much for you to keep quiet. Jesus, if you want to make a phone call then this is not the place!
I bought a second-hand guidebook on Wales to help me put in more details about Tom's homeland. I think he is a man in exile from several aspects of himself: his heritage as Lord Kilvey's heir, his own homeland because he lives in England rather than Walea, and his own sexuality because he cannot live an open life as himself.
I also can't help thinking that Flora isn't as sympathetic as I would like. I think there is that streak of ambition which can make her come across as a bit cold at times. I can see why Rosanna and her ilk would get the wrong idea. I am conscious that I do need to make her as sympathetic as Tom. There needs to be much more about her and her struggles.
I wonder whether Rosanna is a little too bitchy. I do like that about her character but I also feel she needs to be a bit more vulnerable. Whereas Sylvie is bad-minded and scheming, Rosanna is desperately insecure. Underneath her spiky outward manner is a girl who is terrified that she is about to lose every scrap of talent she had. The knowledge that she is expected to become a star must be a heavy weight on her , especially when faced with a rival with a phenomenal voice like Flora how can she compete with that? She craves the approval of someone like Tom and the more she tries the harder it is to impress him.
We need to delve far more into Pierre's motivations as well. I don't want him to be sympathetic by any means but I think his relationship is more complex than has been shown so far. I need to work on this, I feel.
In other news, there's news of a Jeff Buckley biopic doing the rounds.
I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand I am still such a stan that I probably would watch this, but I dread to think of the fail of Hollywood getting their hands on this story. I also feel maybe it's a bit too soon, and besides didn't his mother Mary Guibert say she didn't want a biopic during her lifetime. So what's changed?
I really do need to do some kind of beat sheet if I'm going to reconstruct this. Make sure it is actually going to be two novels with their own arcs. I have a lot more plot points to get down before this is going to be suitable for reading. I am definitely on the search for someone to thrash this out with.
It's surprisingly quiet in here, more so than the library which is plagued by people talking extremely loudly on their mobile phones. This is highly annoying when you're trying to concentrate on a scene. It's a freaking library. I don't think that I am asking too much for you to keep quiet. Jesus, if you want to make a phone call then this is not the place!
I bought a second-hand guidebook on Wales to help me put in more details about Tom's homeland. I think he is a man in exile from several aspects of himself: his heritage as Lord Kilvey's heir, his own homeland because he lives in England rather than Walea, and his own sexuality because he cannot live an open life as himself.
I also can't help thinking that Flora isn't as sympathetic as I would like. I think there is that streak of ambition which can make her come across as a bit cold at times. I can see why Rosanna and her ilk would get the wrong idea. I am conscious that I do need to make her as sympathetic as Tom. There needs to be much more about her and her struggles.
I wonder whether Rosanna is a little too bitchy. I do like that about her character but I also feel she needs to be a bit more vulnerable. Whereas Sylvie is bad-minded and scheming, Rosanna is desperately insecure. Underneath her spiky outward manner is a girl who is terrified that she is about to lose every scrap of talent she had. The knowledge that she is expected to become a star must be a heavy weight on her , especially when faced with a rival with a phenomenal voice like Flora how can she compete with that? She craves the approval of someone like Tom and the more she tries the harder it is to impress him.
We need to delve far more into Pierre's motivations as well. I don't want him to be sympathetic by any means but I think his relationship is more complex than has been shown so far. I need to work on this, I feel.
In other news, there's news of a Jeff Buckley biopic doing the rounds.
Jeff Buckley Biopic is a go!
I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand I am still such a stan that I probably would watch this, but I dread to think of the fail of Hollywood getting their hands on this story. I also feel maybe it's a bit too soon, and besides didn't his mother Mary Guibert say she didn't want a biopic during her lifetime. So what's changed?