Tales of the Parodyverse >> View Thread |
Author | |||
L! Location: Seattle, Washington Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004 Posts: 1,038 |
Subject: Writer's Block Posted Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 01:27:34 pm EDT (Viewed 527 times) | ||
| |||
Posted with Apple Safari 3.1.2 on MacOS X
*sigh* I'm not sure what to write next. I've got some ideas but there are some things that are preventing me from completing them. One overarching thing is that most of my ideas conflicts with the Land that Common Sense Forgot/Saving the Future story line(s) that are going on. It's mostly "Oh, I can't use them since they are elsewhere", but that isn't all that big of a problem you just add a simple line in a footnote or a header note that the story takes before all that (That works for most of the ideas. Except for one where the set up for future stories takes place during the LtCSF/StF story line(s).) The bigger problems are I don't know how to get the story ideas I have to an end. All are Catherine/Chad & Ronnie centric. I don't have firm titles for these ideas but I have some working titles: "The Cult of Chad & Ronnie", "Who is Mr. Spooky?" & "Revenge of *SPOILER CHARACTER*". With the Cult story, I have written a beginning to the story. I've set up the story: time, location & introduced most of the central characters. But I'm not sure what to do once I have everyone together. I'm just not sure why the Cult even needs to be in existence. It was an idea that sounded funny & that it had all sorts of story possibilities but I'm just not sure anymore. I was thinking about maybe tying in this cult with another one that had recently lost there Master but there's no easily accessible info on them, sure their Master has his own Who's Who entry (I think he might even have 2) but little to nothing about his cult. So, that idea put aside for the moment. The Spooky story is an even less defined story in my mind. I'm not even sure who Spooky is! If I don't, why do a story explaining who he is? I've got who he's based off of, which I doubt I'd be able to reveal him as such. It would be bring up lots of questions, It might even screw up the Parodyverse/plans of other writers'. Then there is a other idea I have for who he is which could maybe work, it could screw up stuff but it would only screw up my stuff since Spooky would be revealed as one of my characters reworked to be Spooky. On the upside, this idea did spark an idea for the use of the Moon Public Library (Lee would be mentioned but not seen since he's elsewhere). This would also given me a chance to "borrow" things from a few certain resent (resent to me) "Doctor Who" episodes. I've got more ideas for the MPL portion of the story then the rest of the story. Well, I have a kind of idea for the end which would make the rest of the story a moot point but I'd only go for that if I couldn't figure out anything else to do. The Revenge story idea spun out of an idea of who I've been feeling at Work. I took those feelings/thoughts & imbued those to a Catherine at work story which could easily happen. Then, why what I had in mind to have happened brought up thoughts of *SPOILER CHARACTER*. But, then I'd need to consult with someone else to see where he is in the grand scheme of things. So, that's about all I had, there were few other things that he might do to her but at the end I felt like I wanted to have everything back to a status quo but if that's what was going to happen why do the story at all? There a few other stories but they tie into LtCSF/StF & those are on the back burner. I just wanted to do something in the mean time but then all this happened. *sigh* -Brian/L! | |||
Visionary |
Subject: Sounds like you have plenty of ideas... [Re: L!] Posted Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 06:35:46 pm EDT | ||
| |||
Posted with Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15 on Windows XP
I wouldn't worry too much about what's happening in Saving the Future, unless you want to tie directly into it. You don't even have to set it before the events there, assuming your story doesn't need to tie directly into the resolution. As for the Parody Master Cult, they first appeared 9 years ago in "Mob Rules", where they were brought together and led by the Apostate to trick the Legion and Akiko into going to war with each other. They operated in a somewhat "secret society" manner. Most of the human members of the Cult are just disillusioned, average people who were looking for something to believe in. With the Parody Master gone, there are probably plenty of low ranking former cult members looking for a new direction to keep them going. | |||
L! Location: Seattle, Washington Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004 Posts: 1,038 |
Subject: That's never been my problem. [Re: Visionary] Posted Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 07:04:22 pm EDT (Viewed 525 times) | ||
| |||
Posted with Apple Safari 3.1.2 on MacOS X
Well, I don't know what the resolution of Saving the Future is? I sort of don't want to do to much as it might screw up stuff down the road. I guess I'm guess too worried about continuity when I shouldn't be.
I knew some of that but was wondering about if there was any uniform look to them. | |||
HH |
Subject: I don't so much have a block as a lack of time to write. [Re: L!] Posted Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 01:37:48 pm EDT | ||
| |||
Posted with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
Write the core scene you're most burning to do then work out from there.
I think Vizh might have covered this. Since the PM's cult is fragmented and currently depowered there's plenty of options for people to swoop in and remake it anyhow. And don't worry about how Saving the Future ends. You might want to shy away from mentioning Danny or Kerry or Liu Xi or the Void Scholar, but otherwise I don't imagine you'd have much to worry about. | |||
L! Location: Seattle, Washington Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004 Posts: 1,038 |
Subject: I have the the time since I don't have much going on anyways. [Re: HH] Posted Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 10:24:37 pm EDT (Viewed 488 times) | ||
| |||
Posted with Apple Safari 3.1.2 on MacOS X
I go to work, come home & spend most the time before I go to bed either in front on my computer monitor or in front of the TV screen: That's a few hours, up to 8 at the most. The TV screen is the lesser of the two screens at the moment since there isn't a whole lot to watch these days. When Fall rolls around, I'll take up TV again.
I've been thinking about "Who is Mr. Spooky?" story & making the scene/story chunk that I've spent most thinking about (Catherine at the MPL) the whole, if not most of, the story. Which means that the whole mystery of Mr. Spooky's identity will be shortened down to just a passing joke & maybe a few references here and there.
I don't think I'll have a problem with the whole not mentioning Danny, Kerry, Lui Xi or the Void Scholar thing since I haven't before. |
On Topic™ © 2003-2024 Powermad Software |