A quick plea for help

This blog hasn't worked out quite like I expected.

This is mostly my fault. I haven't been nearly as productive as I hoped to be and perhaps more crucially I've had a tendency to write and write and then do a dump of the bits I'm happy with on here when it was really meant to be everything on a regular basis.

But I've been hoping for a couple more comments along the way. Queries, suggestions, demands for me to never darken their door with such unadulterated shit ever again. To be fair I've been writing scenes and it is hard to talk too hard about a specific scene without getting into proper micro 'that line doesn't hit' stuff and that's not really helpful stuff.

So I have some questions which I would welcome any thoughts on:

1) Sean and Jules- do you like them?
2) Do they feel consistent as people, do you have a sense of them as definite characters?
3) Does the bike accident feel false?


Next up: Advanced Fun

As you can see there isn't a lot to show for this. And the reason behind this is simple: it really needs a plot and I'm really struggling. But then I realised that's the whole point of the blog. I can write endless conversations, I don't need help with that. Plotting, story arc, character development. That whole story thing. That's where I really need to develop as a writer and need your help.

So here is where we are with Advanced Fun as a plot

Couple take in a lodger. Lodger has never gone out in his life but is now well enough to do so, so asks the couple to show him how to go out and have fun.

The girl thinks this is a brilliant idea but has to persuade the boy. The three of them try and complete a series of different 'out' activities. Girl becomes obsessed with getting the lodger a girlfriend, boy thinks it's a bad idea. The couple start to get on really badly and are also trying to compete for lodger's attention.

Eventually strains become too much and the couple actually split up. Lodger feels terrible and tries to put them back together. He can't help them but both girl and boy agree to (seperately) help him with his own girl troubles. They both go to the same party to see what they think of as solely their own handicraft and discover they're both behind it. They get back together.


There nothing in the second two paragraphs that I hold sacred. It could all go. So basically this is me abrogating my responsibilities. All thoughts will be entertained. In fact, let's make it a deal. Any comment made will be turned into its own post where I play around with it, try and put as many different stories around it. Even if that means it becoming a zombie movie or a porn film. So yeah- all thoughts welcome.