Subplots ... mmmm
I love subplots. The main plot of a book can be followed as a single, golden thread, but subplots add more spice, don't you think?
I've just started one now--or, more accurately, brought one into full fruit. The subplot in question is the Hooded Falcon/Cold Witness subplot in Project White Light. Basically, Johnny Campbell has returned to Cold Witness as an ORAFO field agent (that's the Office of Royal Air Force Operations), whose mission is to discover exactly what covert and illegal experiments are being conducted by the NSA on Orfordness. At the moment, he has little to go on. Common knowledge and gossip in the pub, a few UFO sightings ... but soon he gets a taste of the action himself. Hundreds of people from Orford, Sudbourne and Iken see a gigantic glowing disk slowly waltzing over the full length of the Island. But is it an alien spaceship, or is it something far more sinister and ultimately dangerous? It's up to Johnny Campbell, secret agent and all-round good guy, to find out.
I've got a really good feeling about this particular subplot. The main thread (that's Christina's stuff) was starting to get just a little dry over the past couple of days, but this is much better. Just think ... it's only a couple of chapters before I start interweaving the two plotlines. And the CUFORA UFO researchers will arrive soon, too. And Dr Hartman starts acting funny. And Lucy starts going mad. Groovy.
On the coursework front, I've decided not to beat myself up over it. Turns out that, although I'm quite a long way behind, I'm actually the farthest ahead in the whole class. There's no possible way I can get it all completed before Easter, so what's the point in trying too hard? Now I know it's an impossible task, the pressure's off. I can keep chugging along at my own pace.
Which means more time for writing. *predatory grin*
Note
Posted a longish snippet from White Light on the Roving Crits board at Forward Motion. It's the section I was referring to above. Lots of variety this time--a journal entry, several scenes from my more 'traditional' 3rd person, and a newspaper clipping from the East Anglian Daily Times.
I love subplots. The main plot of a book can be followed as a single, golden thread, but subplots add more spice, don't you think?
I've just started one now--or, more accurately, brought one into full fruit. The subplot in question is the Hooded Falcon/Cold Witness subplot in Project White Light. Basically, Johnny Campbell has returned to Cold Witness as an ORAFO field agent (that's the Office of Royal Air Force Operations), whose mission is to discover exactly what covert and illegal experiments are being conducted by the NSA on Orfordness. At the moment, he has little to go on. Common knowledge and gossip in the pub, a few UFO sightings ... but soon he gets a taste of the action himself. Hundreds of people from Orford, Sudbourne and Iken see a gigantic glowing disk slowly waltzing over the full length of the Island. But is it an alien spaceship, or is it something far more sinister and ultimately dangerous? It's up to Johnny Campbell, secret agent and all-round good guy, to find out.
I've got a really good feeling about this particular subplot. The main thread (that's Christina's stuff) was starting to get just a little dry over the past couple of days, but this is much better. Just think ... it's only a couple of chapters before I start interweaving the two plotlines. And the CUFORA UFO researchers will arrive soon, too. And Dr Hartman starts acting funny. And Lucy starts going mad. Groovy.
On the coursework front, I've decided not to beat myself up over it. Turns out that, although I'm quite a long way behind, I'm actually the farthest ahead in the whole class. There's no possible way I can get it all completed before Easter, so what's the point in trying too hard? Now I know it's an impossible task, the pressure's off. I can keep chugging along at my own pace.
Which means more time for writing. *predatory grin*
Note
Posted a longish snippet from White Light on the Roving Crits board at Forward Motion. It's the section I was referring to above. Lots of variety this time--a journal entry, several scenes from my more 'traditional' 3rd person, and a newspaper clipping from the East Anglian Daily Times.
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