- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
So here's a quick impromptu question:
How many of you are in love with Fasul?
See, I'm in a rut so to speak, I ended up reading over this story again the other day and as typical of when I read my own work, I was disgusted with how pedestrian it read. The last few chapters in particular, they're awful. They read like something I would have written in Grade 4 Language Arts.
So, suitably depressed I read over the last installment of the Forerunner Chronicles and...well let's just say I didn't suddenly get a change of opinion.
Rather than wallow in my own self-pity, which admittingly is what I typically do at times like these, I'm trying to narrow down what it is about the Forerunner Chronicles in particular that is tying me down. Some of the conclusions I've come to is that I have not been entirely miserable while writing these chapters. My artistic license is grown and nurtured by personal suffering which is lacking these days. I've been disgustingly amused most of the time and happy, which is not a good place for me, I need to be taken down a few pegs.
Other than that rather ambiguous problem, I've come to wonder if writing for a character like Fasul has simply become too boring. Three chapters in a row is taxing, and it shows. That observation leads quite naturally into my question for you, the much-abused public.
Would that I could throw aside my personal torment for a moment, I ask the light-hearted question, if I were to completely disregard Fasul, at least in the terms of forming scenes around his perspective, would you find it cumbersome? Shall I merely be creating more problems than I solve by say, shifting the focus to Cyriacus entirely?
ANSWER IN A TIMELY FASHION! OTHERWISE I WILL CRY!