First Step of a Journey

I have so many other things I should be doing right now that writing this is entirely nonsensical.

Anyway. I started my novel (Well, it's been started for a while now, but I haven't added much on). I decided to go with a free sort of rush of words at first. I want to get everything down on paper and then edit and hack it to pieces. I want to get all my thoughts, feelings, ideas, everything, down on paper. Well, file, I suppose.

I'm still writing the prologue. Let's not get too excited about this. I don't even really know where I want to take this... But that's alright. I just know that it's going to be a fun journey, and I have taken the first step.

I think I will have fun writing Farleigh's character. She's the kind of person who enjoys irony and thinks very sarcastically all the time. She seems like a very calm and precise person from the outside, but on the inside, she's plotting something every minute, and always has another motive. Farleigh is just the type of person who always looks for what's in it for themselves, and you should find yourself amused as you read from her point of view. Come to think of it, most of my main characters are the evil genius type. Heh. That must say something about me.

Except... I'm not sure if I want to make the story in third person omniscient or first person... Either would be entertaining. I'm used to writing in first-person, but I have actually started the novel in third. I suppose it would make more sense if I wrote it in first, because I don't really want to change perspectives throughout the novel. However, thinking on the matter even more, successful books like... say, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter were written in third person. And J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were written in third-person. It definitely has advantages, the main one being that you can sometimes move away from your main character to explain what the bad guy is doing, which Rowling does a lot in the later books of her series, which does benefit it greatly, in my opinion.

So yeah, I guess I'll just stick to third, much like Rowling writes her Harry Potter from his perspective in third.

I am very excited for the character development that will be going on - and oh boy, I have something planned for every character thus far. I remember that I wrote down their personal conflicts one day in Pre-Calc. I may as well include them here, because this is my writing blog.

Farleigh: learning honor, heritage
Cyves: choosing loyalty/breaking free
Euwaru: self-confidence, shedding naivete 
Aeschere: ???
Eliza: revenge
Barlone: prioritizing, saving loved ones


So yes, I need to figure out who Aeschere is... And did you notice that these character names begin with A, B, C, E, F? I guess I need someone with a D name in there. Teehee!