and I wanna make it worth the fight.
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News from the NaNo front:
I keep telling myself to not compare this to Push Rewind, as when I wrote that, I was at 25,000 words ten days in.
The title that I finally decided on for the story (option two here) is At the Sound of the Beep, which I am still waffling over, but I digress. My main characters are Summer and Charlie, and so far everyone in their universe is weird. Summer works at Pirate Pizza, which is like Chuck-E-Cheese with pirates (of course), where the mascot is a guy named Captain Bob; Charlie's ex-girlfriend obsessively collected Care Bears, and Summer's friend Marcie is a slightly overly defensive feminist conspiracy theorist. Originally I wanted the story to be more epistolary and told through e-mails and IMs between characters, and having Charlie and Summer's conversations replayed through those or only through dialogue. But I'm writing "regularly" (third person omniscient) throughout, but having Charlie and Summer's conversations with each other told only through dialogue. Which is working out okay, but yeah.
Anyone want random quotes? I got two random quotes.
The first line: "According to Sheena Doherty, Charlie Garner was an 8.5."
A rant from one of Summer's friends, Raina: "Can we talk about something else for once? Like the fact that I hate Ethan Frome with a passion? That book is so hideously stupid. 'Oh, Ethan, I'm in love with you but you are married to my fugly cousin.' 'Oh, Mattie, I love you too, but I am too concerned with your virtue, so we are not going to have hot boot-knocking action!' 'Oh, Ethan, I can't live without you!' 'I can't live without you too, Mattie! Let's go try to kill ourselves by sledding into a tree!' Ethan Frome is basically what would have happened if Romeo and Juliet had somehow survived their suicide attempt and the Nurse spent the rest of her days caring for them and being all, 'You idiots, this is why you don't marry the first thing that you have the hots for. You try and kill yourselves 'cause you can't bear to be apart, and now you're both scarred for life and stuck with each other.'"
"I'm guessing that you're not a fan of Edith Wharton," Summer remarked.
"Seriously, what was that bitch thinking when she wrote that? IT IS FABULOUSLY STUPID." Raina's ponytail seemed to bounce in agitation. "I don't know what it is with academics teaching such fiercely boring classics and having you interpret the hell out of them. The only decent books that I've ever read in school were Charlotte's Web, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Separate Peace, and the last one was really good because it was so ripe with slash potential*..."
*--I got this from the internet, and from a girl in my sophomore English class named Kohni, who actually leaned over one day and was all, "Is it just me, or does Gene have a thing for Finny?" Seriously. I didn't notice at all.
And that is all for now. TV talk laterish.
News from the NaNo front:
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15,388 / 50,000 (30.8%) |
I keep telling myself to not compare this to Push Rewind, as when I wrote that, I was at 25,000 words ten days in.
The title that I finally decided on for the story (option two here) is At the Sound of the Beep, which I am still waffling over, but I digress. My main characters are Summer and Charlie, and so far everyone in their universe is weird. Summer works at Pirate Pizza, which is like Chuck-E-Cheese with pirates (of course), where the mascot is a guy named Captain Bob; Charlie's ex-girlfriend obsessively collected Care Bears, and Summer's friend Marcie is a slightly overly defensive feminist conspiracy theorist. Originally I wanted the story to be more epistolary and told through e-mails and IMs between characters, and having Charlie and Summer's conversations replayed through those or only through dialogue. But I'm writing "regularly" (third person omniscient) throughout, but having Charlie and Summer's conversations with each other told only through dialogue. Which is working out okay, but yeah.
Anyone want random quotes? I got two random quotes.
The first line: "According to Sheena Doherty, Charlie Garner was an 8.5."
A rant from one of Summer's friends, Raina: "Can we talk about something else for once? Like the fact that I hate Ethan Frome with a passion? That book is so hideously stupid. 'Oh, Ethan, I'm in love with you but you are married to my fugly cousin.' 'Oh, Mattie, I love you too, but I am too concerned with your virtue, so we are not going to have hot boot-knocking action!' 'Oh, Ethan, I can't live without you!' 'I can't live without you too, Mattie! Let's go try to kill ourselves by sledding into a tree!' Ethan Frome is basically what would have happened if Romeo and Juliet had somehow survived their suicide attempt and the Nurse spent the rest of her days caring for them and being all, 'You idiots, this is why you don't marry the first thing that you have the hots for. You try and kill yourselves 'cause you can't bear to be apart, and now you're both scarred for life and stuck with each other.'"
"I'm guessing that you're not a fan of Edith Wharton," Summer remarked.
"Seriously, what was that bitch thinking when she wrote that? IT IS FABULOUSLY STUPID." Raina's ponytail seemed to bounce in agitation. "I don't know what it is with academics teaching such fiercely boring classics and having you interpret the hell out of them. The only decent books that I've ever read in school were Charlotte's Web, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Separate Peace, and the last one was really good because it was so ripe with slash potential*..."
*--I got this from the internet, and from a girl in my sophomore English class named Kohni, who actually leaned over one day and was all, "Is it just me, or does Gene have a thing for Finny?" Seriously. I didn't notice at all.
And that is all for now. TV talk laterish.
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Date: 2007-11-09 07:19 pm (UTC)I can't wait to read your novel! You're going to do great.