Struggling

F**k me i've been struggling this fortnight doing a.m. shifts. Made some notes this afternoon, trying to rethink the basic structure of the story. Didn't get very much done, now i'm planning to watch some episodes of Daria on dvd and fall asleep in front of the tv just as soon as I get this written up.

Here's what i've been thinking. I'm considering turning Emily into an orphan (yeah I know, I hate me too). Going to have her live in a kind of strange shared custody relationship between her eccentric Aunt and her religious Aunt.

My conflict wasn't strong enough thinking about it as being a battle between Gnomes and Faeries. At most that's a surface conflict that should act as a key action sequence in the book. The heart of the stories conflict needs to be emotional and needs to relate to Emily. I made a list of some emotional conflicts that should do that. When i'm more conscious i'll think about how to weave them together with the big battle sequence.

Lastly I started making a list of details that will define Emily's world to begin with. Rather than make this too ordinary a world i'm striving to make it something odd before the creatures are even introduced.

So there's that.

And here's this.

I love this song, I hope you love it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zYOKFjpm9s