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scribblemynameSo playing total catch-up here (I know, I know). On Thursday, I managed to write some at the end in the Justus POV fic of "Its Own Absolution" due to a wonderful antagonists prompt from in_the_blue. It gave me a good headstart. I percolated a lot on Sabbath about it, but didn't turn that sketch into fic until Sunday, and awkward fic at that.
Somewhere in there, I also sketched down some other stuff and have started to rethink my approach to this collaboration. I need something that doesn't fit easily into worldbuilding I've already done for any other story. It's not fair to thecatisacritic.
Also, trovia got me off on an amazing Avengers fanfic novel (I'm a sucker for brothers), so there's that. It took time to read and was good for when I was feeling totally bleh on the mental front.
To the counts:
October 24, 2013
- Fiction: 1041 words - Month to Date: 29,911 words
- Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
- Nonfiction: 48 words - Month to Date: 362 words
October 26, 2013
- Fiction: 180 words - Month to Date: 30,091 words
- Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
- Nonfiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 362 words
October 27, 2013
- Fiction: 1139 words - Month to Date: 31,230 words
- Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
- Nonfiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 362 words
Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 07:38 pm (UTC)Maybe we should just start with the friends? Do you learn your premise as you write or is it always there first? And why are they coming back together now?
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 09:00 pm (UTC)Sometimes I know from the beginning where the whole thing is going, and sometimes I just know a part of it. Sometimes I know next to nothing. Every story changes on me during the writing, so I don't do too much advance planning because that never seems to work for me. I'll get ideas of what should happen that can't because of what a character does, and then I have a freak out and abandon stories because I can't reconcile them...
I tend to get a slight sense of the characters and start building from there when I know enough to write about them.
I have had this thought in the back of my head for a while, something I never developed into anything more, but it was about a couple... She was in love with him and told him, but he didn't love her, so he moved away to spare her and there was a conversation between him and his friend as they drove back to his hometown about why he'd never asked her for any favors even though she had a successful business (computers, maybe?) that could have given him the answers he wanted years ago.
That doesn't have to be what draws them back together this time. I've done it with a death before, the mentor figure died and the funeral brought the other one home...
Just some thoughts/possibilities.
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 09:02 pm (UTC)Do you want to work out the special ability aspect beforehand or wing it?
Do you want to write the first piece or have me do it? :coughs: you :coughs:
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 09:33 pm (UTC)Did we decide why they're coming back together? And are we starting at the point of reunion... or should we look at why they got estranged?
I am willing to start. I think. I might regret that, though.
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 09:45 pm (UTC)It's easier for me to match your tone I think. Heading to reunion would give us a chance to introduce our own characters for ourselves.
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 09:58 pm (UTC)Okay. How many characters are we playing around with here? Are we possibly dealing with a family returning (possibly brother/sister or brother/brother) to rejoin the former friends?
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Date: 2013-10-28 10:02 pm (UTC)Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 12:02 am (UTC)“You planning on speaking at all during this drive?”
Not looking up from his book, he gave a slight shake of his head. Talking wasn’t on the list of things that had to be done today, and he was sticking to the list. Organization kept him sane, even if his lists annoyed everyone else he knew.
“You know you’ll have to talk sometime today. You can’t avoid it all day.”
That got a glance toward the mirror, meeting the eyes waiting for his response, but he shook his head, returning to the book. He could avoid it for the day, could avoid it for a lot longer if he wanted, and that might be what he chose to do for the duration of this trip.
“You are not going to spend the entire week not talking to any of us.”
He lifted the book, tempted to let it do the talking for him. Aimed properly, it would even stop the car, keeping them from reaching the destination he had no desire to see again.
“You’re not a child. Don’t act like one.”
He closed his eyes. Silence was still the preferable response. He could keep himself from reacting for a while longer, but if he was pushed, if he was provoked—he started down the list of things that calmed him, fulfilling each as he did.
“Leave him alone. We don’t need to lose the car—and I would like to get there alive.”
“It’s not that bad.”
He lost his place in the list, and then he lost his book. He studied his empty hands for a moment before kicking the front seat. “I hate both of you. You know that, don’t you?”
“Little brother is mad.”
“Yes, but little brother is talking again.”
“You didn’t have to push. Not everyone needs to talk.”
“And letting him glower is better?”
“I was not glowering. I was reading. Now I don’t have a book, and now I’m glowering.”
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 03:26 am (UTC)Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 03:33 am (UTC)Do you want to do the other part or do you want more from me?
You have the other project you were working on, so if you want to focus on that, I understand.
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 03:35 am (UTC)Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 03:43 am (UTC)I was expecting the reason for not wanting to come back to come out, but he wasn't talking.
So... if you have anything, that could help.
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Date: 2013-10-29 03:47 am (UTC)Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 03:54 am (UTC)Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 02:27 pm (UTC)Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 04:50 pm (UTC)I usually know what abilities are before writing, but his is not cooperating except to tell me that it's dangerous and difficult for him to control and makes his siblings overprotective.
What do you mean, two worlds?
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 04:53 pm (UTC)Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 04:54 pm (UTC)Was it my fault they got into K&T?
This one doesn't have to have them.
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 05:37 pm (UTC)I think it was not being able to leave Lovemark alone, which makes it
You're a sweetie.
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-29 05:46 pm (UTC)Lol, I'm kidding. I'd be okay with it being my fault, as long as it didn't bother you too much.
:)
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 10:09 pm (UTC)What if everyone could have special abilities? What if it's just genetic but it's totally recessive and due to previous world-over bad reactions (read: genocide) it's gotten a lot rarer and some cultures probably think it's not possible/true and some do, etc. Thoughts?
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 10:24 pm (UTC)Is this a separate world? Is it like Earth/modern society if it is?
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 10:27 pm (UTC)Do you have a preference?
Re: Brain dump to follow...
Date: 2013-10-28 10:37 pm (UTC)I tend to play in worlds that are close to Earth but not Earth. That seems... easier.
If we were to use the genocide scare into silence thing, it would have to be an earth alike. I think.