Wednesday, February 11, 2009

melodrama, or just drama?

My novel's storyline can go two routes:

1. there is a huge, biological threat (think: bubonic plague, but more cinematic).  But the plague is stopped just in time by the (semi)ordinary hero.

2. there is a huge, biological threat.  A (semi)ordinary hero figures out how to stop it- but the plague has already spread, and only some people have the genetic makeup to be saved regardless.

Is #2 drama, or melodrama?  Because I've been working from an outline that's more like #1, when I'm suddenly thinking it should be #2.  GAH!

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