Please help.

[prillalar]

I'm working on a story that's giving me trouble. It's meant to be long-ish -- by my standards, anyhow, which means around 5000 words -- and I'm writing from the POV of a character who is a bit hard to really figure out. So I thought that was my problem.

But I just realised that the real issue is that the main conflict in this story is internal to the POV character, not between him and someone else. And that's not something I can recall tackling before at any real length.

It makes me wonder if I can sustain an interesting story. Certainly, there's not nearly so much chance for dialogue that advances the story, which is what I usually do. I find that I'm writing dialogue just to have some, not because it's strictly necessary.

Add to that that I don't think my POV character is really all that reflective and I'm wondering if this will really fly. I do have something of a plot planned out -- this isn't 5000 words of angsty instrospective soliloquizing (is that a word?). I just have to figure out how to keep things interesting while I move the plot along.

Have you been in a similar situation? How did you make the story effective? Any tips for me?

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Re: the reason I love you

[prillalar]

Aw, thank you. :) Never fear -- there will not be 5000 words of introspection regardless.

I think that I'm just going to tackle this and write what feels right and if there's not much dialogue, so be it. My beta will tell me if it sucks and anyway, it's not like children will die. Probably.