Weekly post #3

This week, progress on the capstone project comes along, but not as much as I had hoped.  I am still coming up with the plot events for the story, and despite my best attempts, I haven't quite had the spark I need to finish organizing all of my ideas into a finished whole story yet.  As I have mentioned before, my goal is to churn out as much of a novel as I possibly can, and to that end, I've struggled with a few problems.

Firstly, I have three strong story ideas, and picking which one to work on has taken me a long time.  While I have decided to save my superhero idea for a web comic my friend wants to draw, I still have two strong ideas left over that I haven't been able to pick between.  On the one hand, there is an idea for a space adventure novel that I was very invested in last semester.  I really enjoyed working on that story.  It features a very developed science fiction world that emphasizes both space travel across the galaxy, as well as cyborg enhancements for the people living in that galaxy.  I have had dozens of interesting ideas when I was making that world, but I did run into a road block of sorts.  Namely, I realized that I was writing my two central characters as having basically the same sort of voice, and I have been struggling trying to decide how to not only re-make them so they are more distinct, but also how to re-make the entire supporting cast so that they still are unique compared to the revised central characters.  This was a very great challenge.

On the other hand, my other story idea suffers from the opposite problem.  This idea is about a student-mentor relationship, explored through the characters of a group of medieval demon hunters.  In this case, what I have are seven very strongly distinctive characters who make up the main cast, and whom I am very excited to write about.  Unfortunately, I am struggling to come up with their world they live in.  What I have basically come up with is an alternate history for an ancient earth, so that the planet will FEEL old and medieval, but I am also exploring ways to advance certain aspects of technology so that the world is more unique.  That said, ideas for their world have been coming to me faster than anything else, so I believe this is the story I am going to be working on for the class.  I'll post next week about specific details.