Writing objectives
Jan. 2nd, 2008 07:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranI'm not going to set any completion milestones this time around as my work schedule is likely to overrule any deadlines I set myself. My main focus in 2007 was learning to use different voices and viewpoints. For 2008, it will be accessibility. This will be partly about improving readability and reducing the reader's workload to keep up with the storty, but it will also be about something much harder. It will be about staring more directly at the light. This means more real world settings and settings no more than one degree of separation from our own.
As of Jan 2, 2008, this remains one of the last "things that I like" that I don't see in my own writing. Partly, I think, this is due to a lack of risk-taking and laziness on my part. If I set everything in a completely fictional world, I only have to worry about consistency. Consistency is comparatively easy. It can be solved in isolation. If I set it in our own world, I have to worry about making it believable to people who live in that very world and who may have knowledge that I don't have. And even if I do make it believable, I would still worry about getting the details wrong. (This is something of a sore point for me because a lot of my early awareness of the world at large came from fiction and it was jarring to find out how much of it was inaccurate. Even now, I dislike subtly inaccurate real world fiction because I may very likely end up going to the places written about and information I can't trust is sometimes worse than no information at all. On the other hand, after flicking through some of the books on the best seller list, plausibility, realworld or otherwise, does not seem to be a big issue to the market at large.)
As of Jan 2, 2008, this remains one of the last "things that I like" that I don't see in my own writing. Partly, I think, this is due to a lack of risk-taking and laziness on my part. If I set everything in a completely fictional world, I only have to worry about consistency. Consistency is comparatively easy. It can be solved in isolation. If I set it in our own world, I have to worry about making it believable to people who live in that very world and who may have knowledge that I don't have. And even if I do make it believable, I would still worry about getting the details wrong. (This is something of a sore point for me because a lot of my early awareness of the world at large came from fiction and it was jarring to find out how much of it was inaccurate. Even now, I dislike subtly inaccurate real world fiction because I may very likely end up going to the places written about and information I can't trust is sometimes worse than no information at all. On the other hand, after flicking through some of the books on the best seller list, plausibility, realworld or otherwise, does not seem to be a big issue to the market at large.)
