Well, it’s that time of year again, where I actually get on Livejournal and post something, because it’s tradition and I have nowhere else to put this. Where I tell about me winning NaNoWriMo again, and then try to remember all the crap I wanted to put in this journal throughout the month. Or the day, depending. I know I’ll forget to mention
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Yeah, the Space Nazi thing was that idea that the boyfriend came up with right before November. We were discussing something, and he brought up the fact that the Nazi were doing genetic experiments - which is common knowledge - so that they could create the perfect race, not because they believed it already existed. And then I realized that’s exactly what COSMOS was doing, and I figured it’d make a little sense to have that idea sort of…still floating around. Even if I make it something like some idiot found an ancient text on it, and decided to continue to research.
Its sort of funny, because Sedgwick is possibly the only one in COSMOS whose actually doing this for the ‘right’ reasons. He wants to actually create a perfect race of people. The others want a sex toy and the enhancements for themselves. He could care less about the experiments themselves, but he was put in charge of the operations, and Goddamn it, it’s going to go as planned. And the only reason he’s so obsessed with Bri is because she escaped. No one escapes…
But yeah, I had a lot of fun developing Demeter, as well as he life there. Sure, it wasn’t great, but she liked it, especially when her secret actually got out and she was able to be herself. She was supposed to become less of a servant and more of a guest once that came out, but then I decided Justine was a real bitch, and wouldn’t let her out of her employment. The Black parents were supposed to be the ideal socialite man and woman - Justine being a social butterfly and worrying only about social engagements and being considering the perfect host, and Marcus being all macho and manly and whatnot. So sometimes I felt like her life within the Black household wasn’t all that great, but her life outside it was fantastic. And then there was Damien and Danika, so…yeah. It was great. And then COSMOS came and ruined that.
Mom reads my Twitter, and I think that’s sort of where she gets her weird ideas from. She seems to think that I’ll not do NaNo one year, and she’ll ask me if I finished it yet, and then talk about what I should do with all my free time now, despite the fact that I’ve explained to her for seven years now that I write until the 30th. Whatever. She still supports me, and that’s all that really matters. As well as the boyfriend, but he ‘gets’ NaNo a little better than Mom. ^^;
But yeah, this year was sort of weird for me, maybe because I wasn’t shuttling back and forth between my house and the bf’s, and wanting to spend as much time as possible with him. And maybe it was because I took that hiatus from writing that helped. But it was like once I started going, the next thing I knew, I was one page seven with only one more page to go. And it was fun. I didn’t have to worry about padding, as you said, and I just…wrote. And it flowed so much easier. I kinda want to say screw it and do the same with Choices, and…whatever. I’ll figure it out. After all, Persey and Bri have different voices.
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