Posted

Jan 15th 2008

Mood

Confused

Music

"Your Dark Side" - Nu Pagadi

So, I've been going over several parts of Middle Ground that need editing. Sad to say, I'm probably going to redo the Dougall scenes in the latest chapters again. I'm satisfied with the action this time around, but I want to change a few of the plot details this time and make things a bit more consistent. They may seem consistent to you already, but that's cause you dunno the whole story. :-P I apologize. I'm trying to stay consistent, I really am. But the way I see it, each time I edit it, the story gets better, so I'm going ahead with it.

So I'd be making some significant changes to a lot of the chapters. Not rewrites, just edits of parts. One significant change I was planning actually has to do with Mari and Aouri, as well as a lot of the dialogue. I've been thinking about making Mari and Aouri of Cajun descent, and varying a lot more of the accents/ethnicities in my story. My primary reasoning for doing so is that Mari and Aouri came from a very different background as Brigg, and with the cultures as integrated as they are on my worlds it wouldn't really make sense that everyone have the exact same stereotypical "hick" dialect, and the type of people would vary from town to town. And the more I thought about it the more I realized that French ancestry would work very well with both of their backgrounds (especially Aouri). It's obviously a big change, but the characters will still be intact. It has more of an effect on their background (and their dialect, of course).