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gategrrlYes. Did some work on the story for NaNo while parked on my butt at a very loud children's playplace. Thank god the place was playing decent music for a change instead of the usual pap they force children and their parents to listen to ad neauseum and ad infinitum. And, yay, my selective blockading hearing still works. Check.
So, I've started using this technique called The Snowflake, in which you slowly build your story up from one summarizing sentence, to a paragraph, to a series of paragraphs, to a synposis (which you can go back and revise at any point, of course) -- with simultaneous character development, if you want. It seems to be working so far. I think I know; I HAVE NO WORKABLE PLOT YET! No climaxes, no problems, well, okay, I have problems for my characters, but the problems seem to come out of thin air at this point, and I'm wondering which thumb I've got stuck up some Muse's ass. I hope it's enjoying it, because I want to write something decent. I've decided that I'm going to mine last year's story, which I still need to finish revising. (Will do later, with the snowflake method)
Anyhow, part of the three hours spent at this children's playparadise was spent rereading parts of last years' story. I wasn't disgusted with it, which is a good sign, I think. But mostly, I read it because I forgot the names of the characters, and what was supposed to be special about some of them. It turned out to be really cool, actually. It has a good lot of potential. And I think, if I can think through the lack of plot and climaxes and problems to be overcome, I can come up with a good sequel.
I watched a program on Discovery Channel the other night about the Permian Extinction. What if... something like it happened again? What if it really fucked things up, not only for the creatures dying and going extinct *including humans, but for the Earth? The Permian Extinction happened (they think) not overnight, or even ten years or one hundred years, but over 10,000 years - which is still a blink in the planetary time. This extinction has to happen faster than that, I think.
Yup. Destruction and peril is *fun*!!!
So, I've started using this technique called The Snowflake, in which you slowly build your story up from one summarizing sentence, to a paragraph, to a series of paragraphs, to a synposis (which you can go back and revise at any point, of course) -- with simultaneous character development, if you want. It seems to be working so far. I think I know; I HAVE NO WORKABLE PLOT YET! No climaxes, no problems, well, okay, I have problems for my characters, but the problems seem to come out of thin air at this point, and I'm wondering which thumb I've got stuck up some Muse's ass. I hope it's enjoying it, because I want to write something decent. I've decided that I'm going to mine last year's story, which I still need to finish revising. (Will do later, with the snowflake method)
Anyhow, part of the three hours spent at this children's playparadise was spent rereading parts of last years' story. I wasn't disgusted with it, which is a good sign, I think. But mostly, I read it because I forgot the names of the characters, and what was supposed to be special about some of them. It turned out to be really cool, actually. It has a good lot of potential. And I think, if I can think through the lack of plot and climaxes and problems to be overcome, I can come up with a good sequel.
I watched a program on Discovery Channel the other night about the Permian Extinction. What if... something like it happened again? What if it really fucked things up, not only for the creatures dying and going extinct *including humans, but for the Earth? The Permian Extinction happened (they think) not overnight, or even ten years or one hundred years, but over 10,000 years - which is still a blink in the planetary time. This extinction has to happen faster than that, I think.
Yup. Destruction and peril is *fun*!!!
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