Hi all! I’m joining LMS for the first time ever, roguing my way to finishing the first draft of this mess of a thing that has been in my head for many years. My problem is that I’m not disciplined, so hopefully the challenge can help me finish (I’m pretty close already)!
The genre is what I like to call “pseudohistorical chick lit”. Basically, not fantasy because there isn't any magic or other fantasy elements - but not historical either because this isn't a real time or place. Basically, I just wanted the characters to wear long dresses and drive around in horse carriages.
Description of the story:
In an unspecified olden time of long dresses and small kingdoms, Saegen and Myriad are 18-year-old best friends with a mission. From ever since they were little children, their dream has been to marry princes and host glamourous tea parties together for the rest of their lives. When the opportunity arises to acquaint themselves with said princes, the frivolous Myriad is thrilled – and she and Prince Sumner seem to quickly find a match in each other. Saegen, on the other hand, finds everything she has ever dreamt of in the shy and reserved Prince Alfred. But is it enough? Everything has gone just as the girls had secretly always hoped, but it turns out that what Saegen’s all-but-sister Myriad wants, and what 7-year-old Saegen thought she wanted, is not necessarily what 18-year-old Saegen wants. Myriad is flabbergasted to see her usually gentle and composed friend starting to act out and associate with a character who is as handsome as he is suspicious…
Goal: 1,000 words per week until I finish the draft
Other thoughts:
Even though I have been working on this at some capacity for probably about seven years (very on and off), it’s only in the recent months that I’ve started to realise where this story is wanting to go. Also, this post is the first writing I’ve done for this project for more than six months, so it’s going to take a bit of time to get back on track. My goal is just to finally finish even one draft, so while I keep telling myself how problematic everything about this is, I just want to push through.
This is also very much a character story. As you can see, there’s no big plot to speak of, but it deals mainly with Saegen and Myriad’s friendship and how it develops when the girls (mainly Saegen, I suppose) realise that they’re not the same people they were as children. This latter part is something I’ve only realised very recently – one of the reasons I haven’t been writing was that I was trying to push the story somewhere it didn’t want to go, much like Myriad is unintentionally pushing Saegen for this life that was “always meant to be”.
Feel free to give comments or ask questions! However, I can’t guarantee that I’ll be able to give proper answers as my motive here is to just finish the draft and then think about what I actually should be doing. Thank you for reading, if you’re reading this!
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