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Sep. 21st, 2008
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NaNo 2008!
Sep. 21st, 2008 09:38 pmYeap, I'm psyched for it already. I've been thinking all day (and wearing my ugly purple tortured-artist sweater) working on a couple of stories. One's an old idea I've had since I was a child, which is shaping up to be steampunk-ish (complete with dirigibles and stuff) but it's a bit of an epic, so I'm going to have to work on that for a while.
This other one is a reframe of the traditional Sleeping Beauty myth, wherein the idealistic prince doesn't give Beauty the True Love's First Kiss she needs to wake up, but argues with the Story Fairy about how Things Should Be. Story Fairy isn't happy, of course, but she only runs the stories, she doesn't run the people in it, haha.
( For more story )
So I had a beginning and an end, but no middle. And I figure maybe a serial would be the best way to go about this, so I sat down, wrote out fifty slots in my Plot Bunny Book, and started filling in random slots with randomly generated titles. Some of them are purposefully generated in a random way in order to give me an idea of what the story needs to fulfil my Princess Checklist.
My Princess Checklist is currently as follows:
( Click to see Checklist )
I have a series of stories that run the gamut of comedy to more serious themes. Each story will have 1,000 words (if it goes any longer I'll wrap up with a summary and move on) and at the end of the 50,000 I'll sit back and see which ones suck and which ones work, and develope the ones which work into longer works. I have cheesy titles like "Jussy & the City of Light" and weird ones like "Jussy & the Closet of Queen Mira", and ambitious ones like "Jussy on the Thorny Path Through Hell", and plain old comedic ones like "Jussy & the Lampshade Affair". Some of them are loosely based on myths I know; others are ideas I would like a character to encounter; some few are shamelessly ripped from Star Trek and the like.
Hopefully, I'll come away with my sanity intact, because the devil is truly in the details for this one. Even if I don't, this story will still end up with a middle.
This other one is a reframe of the traditional Sleeping Beauty myth, wherein the idealistic prince doesn't give Beauty the True Love's First Kiss she needs to wake up, but argues with the Story Fairy about how Things Should Be. Story Fairy isn't happy, of course, but she only runs the stories, she doesn't run the people in it, haha.
( For more story )
So I had a beginning and an end, but no middle. And I figure maybe a serial would be the best way to go about this, so I sat down, wrote out fifty slots in my Plot Bunny Book, and started filling in random slots with randomly generated titles. Some of them are purposefully generated in a random way in order to give me an idea of what the story needs to fulfil my Princess Checklist.
My Princess Checklist is currently as follows:
( Click to see Checklist )
I have a series of stories that run the gamut of comedy to more serious themes. Each story will have 1,000 words (if it goes any longer I'll wrap up with a summary and move on) and at the end of the 50,000 I'll sit back and see which ones suck and which ones work, and develope the ones which work into longer works. I have cheesy titles like "Jussy & the City of Light" and weird ones like "Jussy & the Closet of Queen Mira", and ambitious ones like "Jussy on the Thorny Path Through Hell", and plain old comedic ones like "Jussy & the Lampshade Affair". Some of them are loosely based on myths I know; others are ideas I would like a character to encounter; some few are shamelessly ripped from Star Trek and the like.
Hopefully, I'll come away with my sanity intact, because the devil is truly in the details for this one. Even if I don't, this story will still end up with a middle.