writing is FUN, dammit
Jan. 23rd, 2005 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanHmm, hmm, hmm. I have deadlines.
The odd Yahoo fanfic chain has started up again, and I've got to think of a part 4 before midnight tomorrow. The official plot synopsis is: "Send the gang into an 'Alternate Universe'. A far away future ala Pitch Black."
I have no idea what Pitch Black is, but the concept is pretty familiar. I like dystopias.
So far, the story is being written by me and someone named Delilah, who likes Star Wars and Phantom of the Opera, according to her web page. It starts out with a man in a penal colony in a little cell; the man is some sort of unspecified criminal, at least according to the Perfect System. He's been there for ten years. It is revealed that he saw something extremely horrible, or possibly did something extremely horrible, or possibly just is something horrible, and then tried to protect his little sister from it. They took away his little sister, and he's out to get her back.
Fortunately for the man (Erik), Marty and Doc have decided to go to the far, far future. Really far. Like, fifteen hundred years. Doc hit his head on the dashboard and is unconscious and bleeding, and Marty is seriously freaking out because Erik looks familiar. (Also, all the scientists were killed because of something bad that happened with time travel. But Marty doesn't know that.)
This is going to be fun. I've never done a fanfic chain before, and it's really interesting to try to figure out what the other author is trying to do and then figuring out a way to expand on it.
I have also been given a deadline for "From the Gods." I must get the rough draft done by spring break. You'd think this would be fairly easy, but this is the Story That Will Not Be Born. I can tell that it's going to be very difficult to write it. Like labor pains.
Suggestions given mostly involve freewriting, which is something I don't do too often anymore. Luckily, the wonderful people at the Fiction Collective are infinitely patient with rough drafts. There is no set limit; I don't have to get it done in three drafts or twenty or fifty. I just need to get something done before the semester is over.
The odd Yahoo fanfic chain has started up again, and I've got to think of a part 4 before midnight tomorrow. The official plot synopsis is: "Send the gang into an 'Alternate Universe'. A far away future ala Pitch Black."
I have no idea what Pitch Black is, but the concept is pretty familiar. I like dystopias.
So far, the story is being written by me and someone named Delilah, who likes Star Wars and Phantom of the Opera, according to her web page. It starts out with a man in a penal colony in a little cell; the man is some sort of unspecified criminal, at least according to the Perfect System. He's been there for ten years. It is revealed that he saw something extremely horrible, or possibly did something extremely horrible, or possibly just is something horrible, and then tried to protect his little sister from it. They took away his little sister, and he's out to get her back.
Fortunately for the man (Erik), Marty and Doc have decided to go to the far, far future. Really far. Like, fifteen hundred years. Doc hit his head on the dashboard and is unconscious and bleeding, and Marty is seriously freaking out because Erik looks familiar. (Also, all the scientists were killed because of something bad that happened with time travel. But Marty doesn't know that.)
This is going to be fun. I've never done a fanfic chain before, and it's really interesting to try to figure out what the other author is trying to do and then figuring out a way to expand on it.
I have also been given a deadline for "From the Gods." I must get the rough draft done by spring break. You'd think this would be fairly easy, but this is the Story That Will Not Be Born. I can tell that it's going to be very difficult to write it. Like labor pains.
Suggestions given mostly involve freewriting, which is something I don't do too often anymore. Luckily, the wonderful people at the Fiction Collective are infinitely patient with rough drafts. There is no set limit; I don't have to get it done in three drafts or twenty or fifty. I just need to get something done before the semester is over.
