more writing memes
Give me a link to one of my fics, and I'll give you details that didn't make it into the fic. Background canon, deleted scenes, or a look into the future. My choice, but if you have a specific question you can ask it in your request.
(from nautisch.)
some of my fics are locked, but if you really want to read something, or if you've read it before and want ( Read more... )
(from nautisch.)
some of my fics are locked, but if you really want to read something, or if you've read it before and want ( Read more... )
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I hope they're in order, and somewhat legible. I honestly had a lot of trouble with this, which is why I ultimately decided to drop out; I just couldn't figure out how to make it work properly, even with all the planning. If you don't want to go through the 'outline' (it really isn't), this is the summary I submitted:
3089 A.D. - Humans squashed the First Android Uprising and managed to contain the Second, but now the Third Uprising is nearing, and mankind is not ready. Doojoon is the most promising candidate the Intergalactic Military Committee has seen in decades, but he needs an army to command, and majors to help him do it. The IMC sends him five of the best and the brightest, but one may not be as human as he seems...
And another paragraph that I couldn't make work, in the end:
There were rumours going around the school. Not the old ones that everyone had been listening to for years, but new ones that arrived in a flurry of activity and seemed to hold their weight in water. A double-batch of launchies, though whether or not they could really be called launchies, no one was sure; they were only a year or two younger than the current crop of captains and toon leaders.
The war is coming, the war is coming, all the rumours said, the war is almost here.
I ended up wanting to set it in Command School but to have them be between fifteen (Dongwoon) and seventeen (Doojoon, Hyunseung) years of age. I think one of the biggest problems I had with this was that I wanted to keep Doojoon as the leader (for obvious reasons), but if I had to pick a member to go with as the brilliant mind who would save mankind, I probably would have chosen Yoseob.
Other than that, I didn't really want this to have a happy ending; I wanted Yoseob to stay alive, but to never receive the proper hero treatment or to escape from the stigma of being an android. (God, he really should have been the Ender character. What was I thinking?) Meanwhile, the other five would have been made important government/military officials, and the six of them would pretty much never be able to meet up. I was going to write a future part where someone (probably Junhyung) died of old age or something, and then the rest of them (including Yoseob) would finally meet up at his grave and talk about everything they 'should have said years ago.'
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Yoseob could be like Bean :( Or Doojoon could be like Alai, except Alai was never really a leader. ANYWAY YOU SAY THAT LIKE YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT. YOU TOTALLY CAN BECAUSE IT'S ALL UNWRITTEN. Doojoon (and co.?) could get the recognition in the end! :(
You are forgiven for dropping out since this is a huge undertaking and I can't write more than 3k of anything so who am I to be all accusing lol :(
NO HAPPY ENDINGS
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