Shortly after waking up this morning, I took some time to dwell on how to solve the conflict of my story. In order for me to build up my story, I need to have a point for my characters to be drawn to (I still have made no definite decision, though believe I am arriving to some idea of how it will pan out). The general concept of the climax has been in my mind since the summer of 2007, but the details are what I need to iron out. Although Fate is not one of my themes, I still intend on incorporating it into the story.
Today, before my first class started, I began to take notes on the overall layout of the story. After making a few structural notes, I decided to make my story shorter. Since this is the first book I plan to have published, I will make the story shorter than I had first decided (12 chapters instead of 30, making Slaughter of the Chambermaids into a novella rather than a novel) which will reduce the cost needed to put it to print.
My plot structure will use the Slice of Life structure. Before actually getting to the point of defining which structure I would be using in my story, I had blindly decided to make my story Horror/Gothic. Since then I have researched more in depth of which structure and genre I will write with in mind. This particular story will be a brief combination of Mystery and Suspense and will have a Feudal European setting.
C. Olson
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