The Director Sector

Two years ago I wrote a play.  It is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin — you know, the one where the rats get drowned by the Piper.  I wrote the entire thing in three hours and then spent the next three months tidying it up and making it better.  I ran into two problems, two major plot holes that need to be resolved.

I haven’t touched the play in over a year.

Every couple of weeks I spend a good hour or two thinking about ways to resolve the plot hole without compromising the entire script.

I’ve ultimately decided that I may have to rewrite a huge portion of the script in order to make it work.

Lovely.

I’ve also started writing a story — what may eventually turn into a novel of some sort, if it’s good enough.  I’m having a really hard time with it.  I can see the big picture in my head, and all the points in between, but the details of getting the characters from point A to point B is overwhelming — especially when each point seems to be two dozen pages apart.

Another problem I’m running into is something that I mentioned awhile back in one of my posts.  I feel like all of my good ideas are just variations on someone else’s.  I feel like my story is just an amalgamation of a bunch of different stories that I’ve read or seen in the past.  I keep telling myself that this is different, that I’m attacking these things from different perspectives.  But don’t you think that’s what Christopher Paolini said when he wrote that horrid ripoff book, Eragon, and its sequel?  I worry myself sometimes.

At any rate, I don’t really think it’ll ever be published, so I’m considering providing my story free-of-charge as an ebook of sorts.  Perhaps the play as well.  What do you think?