Scribbled Fiction

I still remember the first time I wrote out a plot using actual plot points. Heh heh, heh- It was potentially the most mentally exhausting thing I had ever done in my life. Before that, I had just sort of written the plot as it came to me. . . even once I actually started doing outlines. I guess the plots I wrote before probably had some interest, but they were no great literary masterpieces. So I had to try plot. And let me tell you, the first time, more than once I considered grinding out my eyeballs with my fists. But did it get easier the second time? Uh, no. No it did not. The second time, also, was like pulling my brain out chunk by chunk. I mean, have you ever even read people's definition of the first plot point? How many of you even know what the first plot point even is ??? Writing plots didn't feel like this. It didn't feel like this. It didn't even feel like this. It felt like this. Yeah. I mean, by the six or seventh time I actual...

Villain songs! Villain songs! I could sing their praises from a high mountaintop using a megaphone and a worldwide intercom. I could screech their karaokes until the space station calls to complain about the noise. I could bellow them all day while stalking around my house wearing a black cloak and the heads of twelve teddy bears around my neck. That is how much I love villain songs. Novel soundtracks should always, 100% of the time, without exception, have a song for their villain (I mean, unless you don't have an embodied villain. Then that could be a problem). For some reason, only one of the three novel soundtracks I've created have had a song for the villain, so I don't know what's wrong with me, but I really do think that all novel soundtracks should have one. But first things first! Remember that your villain is a person too, and their song on your soundtrack doesn't necessarily have to be 'Be Prepared' or 'Poor Unfortunate Souls...

For all of ye (heh, I said ye) who don't know what a novel soundtrack is or have never made/used one, let me define the term. A novel soundtrack is like a movie soundtrack, only you don't have to work with other people who say your music choices are bad/incorrect/all different music genres and don't match. Ha! And it's for your #WIP and not a movie. And. . . oh yeah. You're the only one who will probably ever listen to it. But seriously, these are awesome. I have done one for every NaNoWriMo novel I've done so far (which is, uh, two) and one for a different novel I did in the middle of the year. I guess you can make one for a novel you're writing longhand, but I don't really see the point unless the novel is one that you're writing on your computer. Basically, you just throw together a bunch of songs that you think go with your novel (hopefully in order), and you listen to it when you're writing. That's basically the short version of ...