Hello!
As I have said before, I'm writing a book. What I announced to be the completed prose last year turned out to be only the first part of a book divided in two. I'm now writing the second part, which takes place fifty years before.
Unlike Part One, which used many points of view (some casual, some recurrent), making prose easier to write, this part focuses only on the main character, a woman. It's harder to write that way, but the idea will pay off. She's a character that appeared in a minor role in Part One, but now the story of how she got involved with the characters, then being an old lady, is told in this part, in which she's only twenty seven years old.
I write as I go, planning no more than a few chapters ahead and with a very light sketch of how things are going to turn out. The sketch, though, didn't make it farther than chapter fifteen, with another fifteen to go. I have a lot of unresolved questions, and the character had to get pregnant (you see, I know it happened, just not when). So, to keep moving forward, I made a really difficult decision: She is going bad. Switching sides. Not permanently, though, for she is good in the first part, but hey! Knowing Anakin would become Darth Vader didn't stop anyone from wanting to see how it happened, and, why not, rooting that it didn't. Now, it's the other way around. The point is, she will switch (she's almost doing it right now, in chapter seventeen). Twice.
So, what I want to ask, and debate, in this topic is the following: What are your thoughts on switching? Does it make sense? And how can one, as a writer, sustain such a switch when you KNOW which side is good? Do the lies of the bad side become necessary for the character to accept the switching? And, most important of all, does this switching, especially when the character goes back to where he started, makes the final choice more true?
Thanks, I'll wait for your answer.
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