Hi there.
I'm determined to finally bash out my passion project - an idea I've been nursing for over a decade now. I wrote one very junky draft (now lost on a crashed computer, but not much was worth retrieving) before I went back to outline it very differently.
I'm getting happier with it, but without going into too many specifics, it is still suffering from what feels like a pervading sense of dourness. Its setting is actually very pretty and appealing, but it takes place against some unpleasant or at least morally ambiguous times. I don't want to throw the satire switch, but at the moment it just feels like heavy going at times. I'm definitely not averse to down endings (or beginnings or middles), but sometimes too much knitted-brow stuff seems to distance and ultimately lessen the impact.
Does anyone have any tips or theories about shedding some emotional weight of an otherwise serious project? And especially some good models to consider? I suppose something like Apocalypse Now - however I don't think I want to go as surreal as it did (even the non-Redux version).
Thanks in advance.
I'm determined to finally bash out my passion project - an idea I've been nursing for over a decade now. I wrote one very junky draft (now lost on a crashed computer, but not much was worth retrieving) before I went back to outline it very differently.
I'm getting happier with it, but without going into too many specifics, it is still suffering from what feels like a pervading sense of dourness. Its setting is actually very pretty and appealing, but it takes place against some unpleasant or at least morally ambiguous times. I don't want to throw the satire switch, but at the moment it just feels like heavy going at times. I'm definitely not averse to down endings (or beginnings or middles), but sometimes too much knitted-brow stuff seems to distance and ultimately lessen the impact.
Does anyone have any tips or theories about shedding some emotional weight of an otherwise serious project? And especially some good models to consider? I suppose something like Apocalypse Now - however I don't think I want to go as surreal as it did (even the non-Redux version).
Thanks in advance.
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