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Sep 08, 2011 22:45

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge
Here is a 30 day original story development challenge. It can be filled by prose or illustration or comic or even just script, whatever works for you and how you’ll be displaying the setting. Feel free to reveal as much or as little as you want.

Day 16 - What was a character's first romantic and/or sexual encounter like?

Steve knew this sort of thing couldn't have happened back home, on the island. The intoxication of freedom and discovery, of being in the big city of Vancouver, wandering the streets and prowling the nigthclubs, made them reckless and impulsive - made things possible.

He and the guys had barely landed when they ran off the ferry and into the streets, whooping like the small-town boys they were, feet pounding asphalt instead of beach, lungs taking in air that smelled nothing like kelp and fish and salt. They flew around corners, hooking their hands on every pole - street lamp, sign or stop light - and each of them laughing because they were in the city, just the four of them, with money lining their pockets and shoes, time on their side.

Anything could happen. Everything could happen. They would chase down every adventure, every whim, every story, and place themselves front and center.

One of those things that happened was Justin. He happened to Steve, sudden and bright, like a thousand other things that happened to them that day. They were in a shop, the four of them giggling in the aisles, losing and finding each other, drunk from the ferry and the run and the city. Steve turned a corner, one hand trailing over packets of hard candies, looking for a jawbreaker, when fingers hooked themselves on the edge of his shirt. He turned and Justin kissed him. He kissed Steve full on the lips, quick and sharp, teeth clicking against his.

Then just as suddenly Justin ran off, back the way he had come, and seconds later the little bell over the shop's door rang twice - open, close.

Steve forgot about the jawbreaker.

A few minutes later, following Frankie and "Limpet" Luke out of the shop, the other boys arms full of sweets, Steve found Justin. He kicking at a fire hydrant, his sneakers giving a short-living squeak with each jolt against the metal. Justin didn't look up when the boys reached him, so he missed the medley of emotions that flickered over Steve's face.

He got it later, though: Steve had turned a corner.

Day 17 - What are popular sports and hobbies in your setting?
Day 18 - What would your protagonist do if they saw your antagonist on the street?
Day 19 - What would your antagonist do if they saw your protagonist on the street?
Day 20 - Demonstrate a character and their best friend and/or love interest interacting as they most commonly do.
Day 21 - What is a character's deepest desire?
Day 22 - What animals appear in your setting?
Day 23 - A unique place in your setting.
Day 24 - Where did you draw inspiration for the setting/story from?
Day 25 - A character's proudest moment.
Day 26 - What special talents or abilities does a character have?
Day 27 - An average day to a character.
Day 28 - A character's most embrassing moment.
Day 29 - An important thematic element.
Day 30 - A major event in the setting's history.

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