Addison
Auror
So I recently came across some articles from the early seasons of Supernatural. After struggling with my stories, I figured I'd research and read how successful authors in the genre and audience did it. I read a part which really clicked for me.
I don't remember it word for word but, after re-watching a few episodes, it made sense. While the brothers' goal in the episode is a monster, demon, ghost or some such, they don't really move forward in that regard until they make progress in their problems or obstacles in their personal life. Yeah seeing them kick supernatural butt is awesome. But think about it, we keep watching to see the brothers get through to the next day. Repair, save and maintain their relationship. Which is what the writers focused on. Basically once they fixed and finalized the brothers' personal arc of the episode, the supernatural part fit into place. The monsters are an awesome, thrilling subplot. They look like main plot but it's really the brother that drive everything.
My story was having the opposite problem. My characters and the plot with the actual characters was taking a back seat and the magic and monsters was getting V.I.P seats. Now that I've taken a good long look at the characters, where they've been and where they're going, the plot has cleaned up so much and it looks SO much better. And I don't have the entire plot yet but what I have looks a lot better than the....THING I had before.
Something to think about. Happy Writing!
I don't remember it word for word but, after re-watching a few episodes, it made sense. While the brothers' goal in the episode is a monster, demon, ghost or some such, they don't really move forward in that regard until they make progress in their problems or obstacles in their personal life. Yeah seeing them kick supernatural butt is awesome. But think about it, we keep watching to see the brothers get through to the next day. Repair, save and maintain their relationship. Which is what the writers focused on. Basically once they fixed and finalized the brothers' personal arc of the episode, the supernatural part fit into place. The monsters are an awesome, thrilling subplot. They look like main plot but it's really the brother that drive everything.
My story was having the opposite problem. My characters and the plot with the actual characters was taking a back seat and the magic and monsters was getting V.I.P seats. Now that I've taken a good long look at the characters, where they've been and where they're going, the plot has cleaned up so much and it looks SO much better. And I don't have the entire plot yet but what I have looks a lot better than the....THING I had before.
Something to think about. Happy Writing!