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Hey everyone!
If you're looking at my journal for the first time right now, and are wanting to read my stories (either the older Lalachai stuff or the newer Castlehill stuff), and are wondering where it is, here's what to do. Just add my account as a friend, and hopefully I'll check pretty soon and see your name, and then I'll add you back, and then quite suddenly, all my writing posts will just magically appear.
See?
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| The World |
[12 Jan 2005|08:08pm] |
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I've been trying to decide what sort of world my story should take place in. Here's the thing. It's definitely set in a modern-day American high school, but I'm not sure if I want it to be a REAL modern-day American high school. I want my characters' world to be slightly skewed, for lack of a better word.
The example that inspired me is the Thursday Next books. There's the essential plot of the series, going into books and everything, which would be dandy even if Thursday lived in our own world, but since Jasper Fforde set everything in this odd little parallel universe, with the dodos and neanderthals and Chronoguard, the books are really and truly something to remember and love.
I don't want to create anything that extreme. Heavens, no. But I do want there to be something just off enough that reading my books feels like reading a story, and not some mass-manufactured teen whatever.
Harry Potter is a good example, at least the earlier ones. The people in Harry's world are not so much characters as caricatures. The whole world is light and silly, even when bad things happen.
I do know that this world will be more childlike and innocent than if I were trying to write some hyper-realistic, gritty exposé of modern-day American high-schoolers. If this book were real, KP would probably be doing drugs, and Jessica and Derek would be doing more than smiling at each other. People would be swearing all over the place.
And I don't want that in my books. It's not SUPPOSED to be realistic, people. It's a fantasy. But more than that, it's my fantasy, and I can build whatever world I want for it.
Now that I have all this written out, I'm starting to think that what I'm doing now may be enough.
I have to keep reminding myself that this is not the real world and I am under no obligation whatsoever to be realistic.
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| don't WORRY, they're safe |
[09 Jan 2005|11:24pm] |
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Here are the characters that I really don't need at all:
KP
Toby
Kavi
Ananda
Penny
That's right, only half of my lovely little buddies are necessary.
I believe I now have three options:
1. Get rid of them
2. Make them necessary
3. Write their stories as "companion books"
I'm thinking of something sort of between numbers 2 and 3. Like, they'll be involved in the main plot, and they'll be there, but you won't really get their full story until I've worked through figuring-out-their-connection at least, and maybe until the whole thing is all over and yay the world is saved.
Hrm, no, I'm liking telling their stories after you know why they're important, and before they save the world.
Some questions remain, such as HOW they'll be involved, and oh yes, HOW they're going to save the world at all. (I mean, I know why it NEEDS to be saved, I'm just not quite sure how it will be accomplished just yet.)
If you understand very much of this, I commend you.
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| November is ooooover!! |
[01 Dec 2004|11:29pm] |
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Okay, okay. Here's a teeny little excerpt from my NaNo that I happen to rather like.
( Here you go. )
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| whee!!! |
[03 Nov 2004|08:32am] |
And so NaNoWriMo begins! I'm already about a full day behind, and if I don't get off my butt and go write like crazy, that's going to be even more.
But even with my 2000 words, I'm already seeing the value of writing like this. I have written SO much more about every little event than I ever would if I wasn't being forced to write so much so quickly. And I'm already seeing the story go in new directions and characters are being developed beautifully in ways I hadn't previously thought out.
I think Toby is definitely beginning to rival Jake for my most tragically angsty character. Not that you could blame either of them.
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| my story sucks. |
[21 Oct 2004|06:34pm] |
I haven't written anything new for a while, and probably won't for a while, cause my dear computer is quite dead. (I'm in the dorm computer lab right now.)
I have, however, been thinking over what I've written so far. I've been thinking very deeply about what, exactly, this story is going to be. I decided that an awful lot of what I've written so far needs to be totally thrown out. What remains needs to be greatly reworked and expanded upon.
I just have this big issue about never really getting into the story, so I just write the scenes that advance the plot, so it's all choppy and short, and I want to make it longer, so I throw in random crap that isn't written very well. (*coughmonsternotebookcough*)
So before I write any more, and before I rewrite the beginning, I am trying to immerse myself in the story and characters. I am trying to know every detail of the story so I don't have to make up stupid stuff as I go along.
Basically, it needs a lot more planning. Because of course two years' worth isn't enough. >_
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| it's all better now |
[07 Oct 2004|01:24am] |
Okay, the Big Beginning is all nice and fixed!
Hope you enjoy it.
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| nobody's messed up enough! |
[04 Oct 2004|03:08pm] |
Yesterday I realized something.
I realized that my characters aren't weird enough.
"How can this be?" you might wonder. "How could a bunch of people who go around doing strange things with their minds not be weird?"
Well, you see, most of these people have powers that are simply special things that they DO. But I want their powers to completely affect who they ARE.
Take Toby for instance. Toby's powers completely take over his life and his personality. He sleeps in trees! He wants to be a BIRD! He's pretty messed up (although in a very endearing way) because there are some wacko things going on in his head all the time.
While on the other hand, most of them are like KP, who I love dearly, but he's just kind of like "Mleh, I'm a punk who sees the future."
That's not very interesting.
I'm not really sure how to solve this problem.
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| ARGH |
[30 Sep 2004|05:26pm] |
Please disregard the previous entry. It's all messed up and I am fully aware of this, but nothing is working because the entire world of computers is conspiring against me.
Please wait to read it until it's all fixed.
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| where it all starts |
[28 Sep 2004|06:11pm] |
I'm having some trouble with the Very Very Beginning.
I had vague ideas of Jake's mom holding her new green-eyed baby and the nurse saying something like "I know this baby is going to be special!"
and then, fourteen years later, he's really not special after all!
only he IS.
I like the idea of that transition, but I'm just not really sure where to start. Maybe Little Jake should be just a little older, like starting kindergarten or something, and the other kids think he's weird, and so his mom tells him about how special he's going to be.
You know, I think I like that.
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| aboot |
[27 Sep 2004|11:49pm] |
So this is my journal Number Two. How very trendy I am.
Anyway, this is all going to be devoted pretty exclusively to the development of my story, with notes and excerpts and maybe pictures. We shall see, shall we not?
I'm excited. I love my story very, very much, and my greatest dream is that someday, some other people might love it too.
At this time, Tanaka and Shannon are OUT of the story. They no longer exist. They didn't fit in, and I didn't understand them, and so I really didn't like them. Which is ironic because I originally made up Tanaka to be this perfect awesome guy that everyone would love.
So it's down to 10. Which is still a lot, I know, but I like it that way.
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