Point of View

So, still struggling with this. I think I've decided to write it 3rd person, but from Juri's point of view, the main male character. Though there are scenes I need/want to have, to deepen the other characters, at which Juri isn't going to be present, which might complicate this slightly. OK, a lot. Maybe I can get someone to tell him about it afterwards...

Also, sex. Not just useful for google searches, but an issue I hadn't thought about when writing from a male characters point of view. I'm not a man, I obviously have never had sex as a man, and I don't know what sex feels like to a man. Nor what having an erection feels like. The rest of writing as a male character, I reckon I can make up as I go along, but this is proving an odd sticking point. If anyone has any suggestions, do shout!

Today's achievement: limited

Well, ok, so it's not been a spectacular writing week. But I've got much more of my outline done, I'm thinking about the story when I'm not writing, and I got 850 words done this morning. It's not been a waste of a day, after all.

The sticking point is that it's so complicated, my brain gets distracted and goes off on tangents about the other storylines, which while useful, doesn't help with the scene I'm supposed to be writing.

I think what I'm going to do with this story - unlike Exile - is to write each scene as a standalone, in chronological order, then rearrange them to where I want them to be. I'm struggling with the differing view points though. Assassin is narrated in the third person, and most of it is from the POV of the main male character, Juri. But there are scenes I want to have where he isn't going to be present, and I like the idea of having both him and the main female character as POV characters. It's just not easy, and I keep falling back into Juri's POV. Maybe I should just scrap the idea of multiple POVs?

Bah. Back to writing...