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capri0mniBut I'm leaving it up, anyway, because maybe someone else will notice a snag or nifty detail I never would, if left to my own devices...
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The magical premise of my story, by which toys are alive, is that the objects around us absorb our mental and emotional energy. It happens strongest with children's toys, because children are emotionally attatched to them, and use them to deliberately act out their thoughts and feelings. But it's not limited to children's toys -- it happens with grown-ups' things, too -- such as our cars and computers (and the machines that make the toys in the factory).
What I'm wondering is: should I include this whole range of "living objects" in my story, or just stick to world as seen by toys?.
My Main Toy Character is a freak, "monster," teddy bear that the other toys look down on, assume to be mad or non-sentient because he wasn't created as "normally" as they were.
(Aside to my DW/LJ audiences: You can see why the "Monster Teddy Bear as metaphor for living with the oppression of Ableism" is setting off alarm bells in my brain. ... I mean, from where I sit, it's about as subtle as a concrete bat painted saftey-orange. And "walking through" the story behind this character's eyes is likely to bring up a lot of angst for me -- and in November to boot. That month is already up there on the Angst-o-meter, thanks to SAD and culturally-mandated sentimentally. Brace yourselves, friends!)
If I stick to the Toy's-eye-view, the entire story would be how the teddy bear tries to find a home, and get accepted by the normal "pretty" toys, and the climax would be where he defends the other toys from the Night Shadows, and becomes their hero.
If I expand my plot to include the Toy's-and-tool's-eye-view, then the family car and computers would become secondary characters (cars are to toys what human adults are to human kids, and could give advice and warnings, etc), and I could show the full ramification of my magic premise in a "haunted house" -- where an entire old house is sentient, having absorbed the thoughts and feelings of several generations of an old family. If I go this route, then the battle with the Night Shadows, and subsequent friendship between the toys would come early on in my novel, so they'd all be ready to band together to befriend or tame the House... or something along those lines.
Option #1 is more traditional, Option #2 may be too weird and confusing to pull off...
Help me decide?
(Aside #2: Yeah... As I was typing this up, became pretty clear to me that #2 is the right answer...)
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The magical premise of my story, by which toys are alive, is that the objects around us absorb our mental and emotional energy. It happens strongest with children's toys, because children are emotionally attatched to them, and use them to deliberately act out their thoughts and feelings. But it's not limited to children's toys -- it happens with grown-ups' things, too -- such as our cars and computers (and the machines that make the toys in the factory).
What I'm wondering is: should I include this whole range of "living objects" in my story, or just stick to world as seen by toys?.
My Main Toy Character is a freak, "monster," teddy bear that the other toys look down on, assume to be mad or non-sentient because he wasn't created as "normally" as they were.
(Aside to my DW/LJ audiences: You can see why the "Monster Teddy Bear as metaphor for living with the oppression of Ableism" is setting off alarm bells in my brain. ... I mean, from where I sit, it's about as subtle as a concrete bat painted saftey-orange. And "walking through" the story behind this character's eyes is likely to bring up a lot of angst for me -- and in November to boot. That month is already up there on the Angst-o-meter, thanks to SAD and culturally-mandated sentimentally. Brace yourselves, friends!)
If I stick to the Toy's-eye-view, the entire story would be how the teddy bear tries to find a home, and get accepted by the normal "pretty" toys, and the climax would be where he defends the other toys from the Night Shadows, and becomes their hero.
If I expand my plot to include the Toy's-and-tool's-eye-view, then the family car and computers would become secondary characters (cars are to toys what human adults are to human kids, and could give advice and warnings, etc), and I could show the full ramification of my magic premise in a "haunted house" -- where an entire old house is sentient, having absorbed the thoughts and feelings of several generations of an old family. If I go this route, then the battle with the Night Shadows, and subsequent friendship between the toys would come early on in my novel, so they'd all be ready to band together to befriend or tame the House... or something along those lines.
Option #1 is more traditional, Option #2 may be too weird and confusing to pull off...
Help me decide?
(Aside #2: Yeah... As I was typing this up, became pretty clear to me that #2 is the right answer...)
