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[ladyjanelly]

 So, instead of actually putting new words on my hockey big-bang fic today (which is at 13,000 words), I tried to keep other plot-bunnies from distracting me, by outlining them in Scrivener.

I outlined 3 different fics today, between 9 and 14 note-cards/scenes each (and they'd be sure to expand from there if/when I actually get into the writing).

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[roxymissrose]

Ooooo. That sounds interesting even to my non-hockey tuned brain!

[ladyjanelly]

Hee! Which one? It is so weird/amazing to have a stack of actually finish-able fics just waiting for me to have writing time.

[roxymissrose]

the Sid/Geno, where Sid has a very bad night after a game, and the dystopian fic because I love those kind of things and because Sid is kinda cute. :)

[ladyjanelly]

The Sid/Geno has the least conflict, no outside enemy (beyond the real world being the real world and inconvenient). But it would be sweet and fun to write, maybe.

The dystopian one has Sid all roughed-up and bad ass. Take all that focus he put on hockey from a young age and put it into honing himself into a weapon fit to survive years of fighting for his life in a man-made gladiatorial hell. I do love messing up the pretty ones. :)

[ladyjanelly]

(Started on the Sid/Geno magical one, bb forgive me.)

The other children have stories, told to them by the adults who love them. Stories of Lost and unloved, hungry and scared and tired. And then here, Home. Cherished and cared for and always, always loved. Some of them were old enough when they were found to remember, to tell their own accounts of a kind face, a gentle hand, being welcomed where before there had only been neglect, abuse

[roxymissrose]

Omgosh, did you actually say forgive me? Because this bit is amazing and I will *CRY* if I don't have more, lots more!!!

[ladyjanelly]

I was asking forgiveness from my poor big-bang fic that's languishing at 13,000 words and needs to move forward but they're just sitting in different rooms in the same house being sad and afraid.

So it works, so far? I'm trying not to give a huge exposition dump, but still give a feel for the setting, and the not-here of it. I'm not sure when I decided that the setting is one of the characters, but I'm happy with how it's working out.

[roxymissrose]

Oh dear...poor big bang....

Oh yes, it works very well so far! You give us an excellent feel for the setting--I love when the setting is a character too. :)

[ladyjanelly]

Yay! Home is going to be like a very alien yet benevolent force for good. She...gives humans what they need, most of the time, even if it's not quite what they want.

It's a strange setting to write in. Even though there will be no time-travel, the doors open to everywhere at the same time, so when you walk outside you're in whatever timezone it is wherever you are. There are a few sky-doors, the garden being the major one, but those are opened to day and summer all the time. There is no sense of season at Home, no sense of day and night, no 24 hr cycle that everyone is on. I was telling a friend today that it's like writing about a colony of people living in a Tardis. There is as much space as is needed, all closely connected, and pretty easy to attach to any outside point in human civilization. Year becomes an alien concept, day and hour similarly meaningless.

[roxymissrose]

it's like writing about a colony of people living in a Tardis.

Brilliant!

[ladyjanelly]

Later, when the food is gone and the kitchen clean, Evgeni’s hands wrinkled from washing and wiping, they go back to the space that is theirs. It is a warm looking place, small but richly paneled with honey-colored wood, a broad panorama of stained glass. Sometimes Borya will open the Door behind the glass and the whole room will glow with color like the jewels in a dragon’s hoard. Borya’s bed is here, and the pile of soft quilts and pillows that Evgeni sleeps on. He settles into his pallet, the excitement of his day fading to contented exhaustion

[roxymissrose]

Yes!! I love the idea of Home and the doors, and his mother going to door after door and none of them opening to what she wants. *Incredible* visuals, there!

[ladyjanelly]

Unless you tell me to stop, you might keep getting daily tidbits of this fic...

[roxymissrose]

HAHAHAHA! Tell you to stop!! :D

Daily tidbits of fascinating story? Sounds like plan!

[ladyjanelly]

You're a dirty, dirty enabler (and I love you for it). OMG I cannot be wondering if I can write a complete 10,000+ word story between now and Aug 12. It is way too late to switch my hockey bb story.

[roxymissrose]

:D