The more you know about your world, the deeper you can pull your reader inside. So background stories are a good thing.
And there's no such thing as "fail" for a first draft, right? All rough drafts are crap (to paraphrase Hemingway) and Everything's Fair Game! But you might think about what it is about your shapeshifters and their place in society that you are avoiding. Certainly if it's a sore point, leave it alone for now. It may be that it's not part of the story you need or want to tell. And it may all come to you sometime during November.
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Date: 2009-10-26 03:06 pm (UTC)And there's no such thing as "fail" for a first draft, right? All rough drafts are crap (to paraphrase Hemingway) and Everything's Fair Game! But you might think about what it is about your shapeshifters and their place in society that you are avoiding. Certainly if it's a sore point, leave it alone for now. It may be that it's not part of the story you need or want to tell. And it may all come to you sometime during November.