Two Wrongs (Hopefully) Make A Right
Jan. 16th, 2022 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealI had this premise for a ghost story that was interesting to me (why can some humans talk to ghosts and others can't?) but then didn't really have a plot. So I tried it again as a flash fiction/documentation sort of thing, but that didn't really meet with success. And then later I got an idea for "this is a cool setting and it would be interesting to write about, but again, no plot, no characterization."
But then I had the idea of, "what if it's a weird and cool place...because it's haunted by a ghost!!" The good news is that the ghost has been ghostly for some time now and is not experiencing a post-existential crisis, it can just try to give advice to humans while carrying on its own business.
It still might not really work in terms of having a plot/characters/fitting the genre of the market I'm interested in. And I probably won't be able to retry it at any of the places that turned down the flash fiction version. But hey, it's better than nothing. Ghosts!
But then I had the idea of, "what if it's a weird and cool place...because it's haunted by a ghost!!" The good news is that the ghost has been ghostly for some time now and is not experiencing a post-existential crisis, it can just try to give advice to humans while carrying on its own business.
It still might not really work in terms of having a plot/characters/fitting the genre of the market I'm interested in. And I probably won't be able to retry it at any of the places that turned down the flash fiction version. But hey, it's better than nothing. Ghosts!
