When writing a first person, female teenager voice, is it ok to end an internal narration sentence with a preposition?
People so rarely think in correct grammar, you see.
Editing, round three-hundred and four. (Except I'm not really keeping count.)
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Getting Mixed Up
It's so easy to do! For instance, when I wrote my post yesterday I neglected to check the exact number of pages in my novel as it is to be formatted, so what did my brain do? Mixed up numbers, of course! In other words, when I said my novel was 130 pages long, that was incorrect. However, along with the news that the novel currently stand at 360 pages, I can proudly say that I worked hard today and formatted through page 131. How exciting! Being that much closer to my goal makes me happy.
You know, when I started writing this book it was in answer to some very silly, fantastical, escapist YA novels I'd been reading. Additionally, I was coming off of a bad break-up and I realize now that I needed that escapism and reversion to the ideals of my youth. In this case, unequal relationships. I'm sure you are all familiar with these relationships in your own way. Inequality can present itself in a romantic relationship in many ways: differences in circumstance, culture, or age are some of the more common ones. All of those mean that one person in the relationship is in a position of more power than the other. Some common instances in popular culture are teachers and students, vampires and humans, older men and younger women, a wealthy person and someone from "the wrong side of the tracks", "trophy" wives, etc, etc, etc...you get the idea.
My point in bringing all this up is that even though I was trying to fight certain stereotypes and ideas when I began the novel, I still had a head full of inequality when it came to romance. (And by inequality, I mean unhealthy.) As a result, I had an example of a bad, power-skewed relationship written into the main arc of the storyline. I told myself the reason for it would be revealed later on in the series (yes, it's a YA series, but this is only the first novel I'm detailing here) and that it wasn't a true example of one of this unequal relationships. However, now that I'm a few years older, wiser, and more content with life, I can see that I was only kidding myself. It is still possible for me to utilize the story arc, but it isn't necessary for me to bring the inequality into the present story. The relationship does not need to be romantic for me to still have my "big reveal" during the series. I can maintain the integrity of the story and the characters as I first imagined them, but I can do it without writing a romantic relationship that is part of what I was initially trying to rebel against with this novel.
Anyhow, the above is a huge part of the edits going on as a I format. I delete a sentence here, add a line there, and voila! The story is still intact, but the creepy elements of what would have been an extremely unequal relationship are vanishing, little by little. So, how about you, dear readers? Ever enjoyed the guilty pleasure of adoring a novel, or movie, or television program that includes an unhealthy relationship? How do these relationships make you feel when you see them or read about them? Do you think it's possible to be in any of those situations and have it not be unhealthy? What would have to happen to make the relationship be ok? Explore in the comments, please!
You know, when I started writing this book it was in answer to some very silly, fantastical, escapist YA novels I'd been reading. Additionally, I was coming off of a bad break-up and I realize now that I needed that escapism and reversion to the ideals of my youth. In this case, unequal relationships. I'm sure you are all familiar with these relationships in your own way. Inequality can present itself in a romantic relationship in many ways: differences in circumstance, culture, or age are some of the more common ones. All of those mean that one person in the relationship is in a position of more power than the other. Some common instances in popular culture are teachers and students, vampires and humans, older men and younger women, a wealthy person and someone from "the wrong side of the tracks", "trophy" wives, etc, etc, etc...you get the idea.
My point in bringing all this up is that even though I was trying to fight certain stereotypes and ideas when I began the novel, I still had a head full of inequality when it came to romance. (And by inequality, I mean unhealthy.) As a result, I had an example of a bad, power-skewed relationship written into the main arc of the storyline. I told myself the reason for it would be revealed later on in the series (yes, it's a YA series, but this is only the first novel I'm detailing here) and that it wasn't a true example of one of this unequal relationships. However, now that I'm a few years older, wiser, and more content with life, I can see that I was only kidding myself. It is still possible for me to utilize the story arc, but it isn't necessary for me to bring the inequality into the present story. The relationship does not need to be romantic for me to still have my "big reveal" during the series. I can maintain the integrity of the story and the characters as I first imagined them, but I can do it without writing a romantic relationship that is part of what I was initially trying to rebel against with this novel.
Anyhow, the above is a huge part of the edits going on as a I format. I delete a sentence here, add a line there, and voila! The story is still intact, but the creepy elements of what would have been an extremely unequal relationship are vanishing, little by little. So, how about you, dear readers? Ever enjoyed the guilty pleasure of adoring a novel, or movie, or television program that includes an unhealthy relationship? How do these relationships make you feel when you see them or read about them? Do you think it's possible to be in any of those situations and have it not be unhealthy? What would have to happen to make the relationship be ok? Explore in the comments, please!
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