"Holly Lisle - Mugging The Muse" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lisle Holly)

(who has a thing for rugged women) falls madly and wildly in love with the hero,
thus complicating the hero's life. (You could fiddle around with this until it became
Tootsie, but you could also run riffs on it that would make it uniquely your own.)

Writer two wants to do a science fiction novel, and decides that the man and woman
are separated, not by family, but by time. The woman was a holo star who lived a
lonely, tragic life, and died young and alone before the hero is even born. He тАЬmeetsтАЭ
her through her work, and decides that he will find a way to go back in time, make
her fall in love with him, and save her from herself. His obsession drives him to
develop time travel, though he spends most of his life doing it. He goes back into the
past, does indeed meet her before she even becomes a star; she falls in love with him
as planned, but after their brief love affair, he dies of old age. She is devastated; she
goes on to become a great actress, never loves again, and dies young, tragic and
alone. (Or not тАУ maybe writer number two came up with a happy ending.)
Writer number three takes the same idea, and decides that the man may love the
woman, but the woman doesn't even know the man exists. He, however, is wacko,
and sure that she shares his passion, and starts writing himself love letters that he
pretends are from her in order to more completely enjoy this love. And so on ...
It doesn't matter what idea you have (or take from a published novel, or from a how-
to book on writing, or whatever) тАУ the idea is not the core of the novel. You are. You
and what you bring to the book you're writing will be unique, because the characters
will come from you, and their reactions, thoughts and feelings will come from you.
And nobody can steal that.




HOLLY LISLE
 MUGGING THE MUSE: WRITING FICTION FOR LOVE AND MONEY 30




How to Start a Novel


You've decided you want to write a book. Terrific. Maybe you've even tried it a few
times, but haven't gotten one all the way to the finish line. It happens. I had a slew of
thirty-page novel starts before I finally found out how to start a novel that I could
finish.
See, that's the trick. You have to start the novel, but you have to have planned to
finish it before you type the first word on page one. And that means laying some
groundwork. What steps do you need to take to have the best chance of finishing the
book you're starting with such enthusiasm?
Here are a list of suggestions that will help you start the novel in such a way that you
can hope to reach the end.


RULES FOR STARTING OUT
тАв Know your world