Chasing the Trail of CTT lol
So Chapter 18 - What If? It's finally taking shape. It's 4 scenes (really 3, but the first one has a shift in PoV and a small amount of napping, that I split into two scenes.
I finished Scene 1 last night. (Just barely) It's a lot of conversation. lol. It's not really much of anything in the way of consequential conversation. I think I'm just trying to give a feel of the comfort these two have with each other when there are no outside mitigating factors to interfere with their interactions. The idea that they can poke fun at each other, laugh and joke in a very casual way appeals to me on many levels. So that took severals days of kind of mapping it out, acting it out in my head to get a feel for it... Funny thing is, I found that once I could get myself settled to actually write it, It came along pretty easily. So last night I finished it. Adjusted the passage of time, and figured out the lead in to scene two.
Tonight, I finished Scene 2. That was supposed to be about a 10 minute scene, and I think it was. Ed gets a couple of minutes to spend in his head space by himself and mull over a couple of things that he already knew about his feelings, and also something he is just discovering, and maybe something Audey said to him earlier just sank in pretty thoroughly. I kind of picture it like a bead of water sitting on top of some dry soil, it's surface tension as yet holding it together and keeping it sitting on the surface. That's the seed Audey planted, and Ed's brain is the soil. So something crossed his mind, and the surface tension on that water broke and it sank into the soil.
So Scene 3 is mapped out... sketched. But I haven't written much of it. The sketch has a few snatches of conversation. It's intent is mostly to introduce Al's girlfriend, Molly. Now... Al says Molly looks like a movie star. lol... and in my head, she has a certain hairstyle and look, and so the other night while allegedly writing in my head, I searched the web for someone with that hairstyle. When finally started zeroing in on it, a girl with that exact style and curling in that exact way, I realized that a lot of the photos I was clipping looked like the same girl... and that not only her hairstyle resembled Molly's, but her face too. so I dug a little deeper into the photo that had first caught my eye, and it turns out she WAS a movie star back in the 1920s. So it turns out that Molly looks like Marion Davies did when she was Molly's age. But I'm told by both of them that Molly's brows are styled more naturally, that she is a dark brunette (and Mx. Davies was often a blonde) and that she doesn't wear her lipstick quite that pointed. lol.
Scene 4 has been sketched out for a while. (really they have all been sketched out) and has been mostly written for a week or two. This is the scene with the most meat in it. lol. You'll see. I just need to decide how exactly to square it off and finish it to my satisfaction. It's been a long time coming. It also has some implied tie backs to One Kiss: Goodbye, which My!Ed and My!Winry both agree happened, and Ed probably thinks that's why he's feeling so awkward now.
Now it's bedtime. Time to go to bed.
I finished Scene 1 last night. (Just barely) It's a lot of conversation. lol. It's not really much of anything in the way of consequential conversation. I think I'm just trying to give a feel of the comfort these two have with each other when there are no outside mitigating factors to interfere with their interactions. The idea that they can poke fun at each other, laugh and joke in a very casual way appeals to me on many levels. So that took severals days of kind of mapping it out, acting it out in my head to get a feel for it... Funny thing is, I found that once I could get myself settled to actually write it, It came along pretty easily. So last night I finished it. Adjusted the passage of time, and figured out the lead in to scene two.
Tonight, I finished Scene 2. That was supposed to be about a 10 minute scene, and I think it was. Ed gets a couple of minutes to spend in his head space by himself and mull over a couple of things that he already knew about his feelings, and also something he is just discovering, and maybe something Audey said to him earlier just sank in pretty thoroughly. I kind of picture it like a bead of water sitting on top of some dry soil, it's surface tension as yet holding it together and keeping it sitting on the surface. That's the seed Audey planted, and Ed's brain is the soil. So something crossed his mind, and the surface tension on that water broke and it sank into the soil.
So Scene 3 is mapped out... sketched. But I haven't written much of it. The sketch has a few snatches of conversation. It's intent is mostly to introduce Al's girlfriend, Molly. Now... Al says Molly looks like a movie star. lol... and in my head, she has a certain hairstyle and look, and so the other night while allegedly writing in my head, I searched the web for someone with that hairstyle. When finally started zeroing in on it, a girl with that exact style and curling in that exact way, I realized that a lot of the photos I was clipping looked like the same girl... and that not only her hairstyle resembled Molly's, but her face too. so I dug a little deeper into the photo that had first caught my eye, and it turns out she WAS a movie star back in the 1920s. So it turns out that Molly looks like Marion Davies did when she was Molly's age. But I'm told by both of them that Molly's brows are styled more naturally, that she is a dark brunette (and Mx. Davies was often a blonde) and that she doesn't wear her lipstick quite that pointed. lol.
Scene 4 has been sketched out for a while. (really they have all been sketched out) and has been mostly written for a week or two. This is the scene with the most meat in it. lol. You'll see. I just need to decide how exactly to square it off and finish it to my satisfaction. It's been a long time coming. It also has some implied tie backs to One Kiss: Goodbye, which My!Ed and My!Winry both agree happened, and Ed probably thinks that's why he's feeling so awkward now.
Now it's bedtime. Time to go to bed.