I've probably said this many times, but I'm bad at trying to explain my stories. Last week, someone asked me what I was working on, and I did my best to explain Arith's story in a way they might find interesting. She said it was the best story idea I'd had. She was trying to be helpful, but I'm not sure how to take that since I gave her a rather poor explanation. Did she think the others were really that bad?
When I saw her this week, she said, "I thought how you could fix the ending of your story!" I wasn't sure why she thought it was bad - I had said that it wasn't really the ending, but that it lead into more stories.
She continued, "Arith should be a prince that was secretly switched at birth. Then he could get married to the princess."
I just started laughing. It was such a cliché idea, and so against everything I want my story to be about. Arith doesn't have to be a secret prince to be important. In fact, making him royalty would take away the power that he has. And whether or not he's a prince, he wouldn't get married to the princess. He may have started with a crush on her, but they end up as very good friends (even best friends after this story).
I guess my laughter didn't deter her. Because she continued explaining her idea for how the babies could have been switched, like how the nursemaid stepped outside for a moment, giving someone else the opportunity to swap them.
Even after I explained that I know all of the members of the royal families because they all appear in other stories, she was still convinced of her idea. I kinda feel bad for how much I hate the idea, because she was so excited about it.
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