appeal for inspiration...
I still have an entire month and a half to come up with a valid plot idea for NaNo 2010. But if I don’t get started now, it will never happen. Unless it comes to me at the last minute. Chances are, that will only happen if I’m trying and failing the entire time up until then, so that the “last minute” coincides with my giving up hope
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Inspiration?
well I never believed in telling people what to write, but opening doors for a lady is just good manners.
Let's see what we have?
*a month and a half to come up with a valid plot idea for NaNo 2010.
What do I have so far?
There’s the inspirational value behind the trilogy, given that the only time I succeeded was the year I let the princess and the dragon out. There was some good writing in there, too.*
1)What was the princess and dragon about?
2)Can you use the soft portions of the plot and apply them to your work now?
*But for some reason I guess I’ve been concentrating on Beckon the Void. I don’t like the original plot line... it’s too blatant and doesn’t offer enough development for anyone to be honestly concerned about the characters.*
3)Could I get a cut down version of the original plot?
*I do like many pieces of it; the cat as a narrator, the train platform scene, Sophie’s cancer monologue, and the hair cut are all examples.*
4)I presume you want to do more the same?
*BV2?
“sleepwalking, narcoleptic lucid dreamer”
The first iteration of BV employed some mechanism of motivation for Sophie.*
5)Agh! Now we get to the turn around bits, XD My fave part of writing!
6)“Sleep walking“, but you applied “waking dreams” so why not continue with that? Narcolepsy, uncontrolled sleeping/ lucid dreams” Which would imply that she controls the dreams when she releases her hold on the conscious… Or nominal reality which ever you’d like to use.
So a danger/twist could be if she went into the dream by choice, not necessarily hers.
Drugs, “Meditation/ hypnosis” therefore “controlled sleeping” could result in, “tactile dreams?”
Reality breaches?
*About BV.
The premise is Sophie is constantly experiencing multiple versions of reality, which Charlie seems to be present in more often than not, and more often than she would like.*
7)More often than Charlie or Sophie would like?
8)Does the other prefer the opposites presence?
*We know that Charlie is a creature of multifarious existences, owing to the inability to get close enough to the center to move along properly.*
9)Can Sophie reach the center? Or is she the cause/focus of the impediment?
*We know that cats and individuals of higher “concentration” can see “auras”, or the refractions of energy disturbances that correlate to a person’s effective nature.*
10)Natural talent or developed instinct?
*We know that Charlie and Sophie’s coincidence is problematic, but we don’t know why.*
11)If they were simply alternate versions of each other it would be a simple matter of unification.
12)But if they are completely different entities then you have a conundrum on what there correlations could signify to your multiverse.
*We have hinted at the possibility of the end of the world as we know it.*
13)Not necessarily a bad thing. A revolution is the high point to most plots.
*I want to work this whole “rings of progression” thing in: a giant, multi-layered spherical labyrinth of realities and ways through them to return to the whole.*
14)Multi layered spherical labyrinth, set in a waking/dream centered multiverse, setting?
You could flip that as well, “a key point, among spherical realities” My first impression is the shape. So many rings drawn in the sand result in a protruding "flower" shape at the center. A pedestal perhaps?
*Which direction can I take this in without baring questions that I can’t provide adequate hypotheses for?*
15)You won’t know what part you’ll get stumped at unless you drive into the wall. ;)
*Actually, the question is as to what I really want to communicate - what people are going to get out of what I have written.*
16)Agh Morel! that’s an interesting question.
Q:What do you like about your life, or your choices that you think others would benefit from?
*I’m devoid of simple truths to mystify. I can’t hardly solve this riddle, let alone construct one. I am a black hole of wisdom.*
"More like a bottled tornado from where I’m standing."
Beckoning the Void, has been a pleasure to read so far, and I do hope some part of my suggestions help you get your butt into gear. I'd enjoy the idea of us exchanging finished works sooner rather than later. :)
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Why must the person sleeping bodies be at rest?
If there are degrees of every subject why can't the body in question have some kind of auto pilot, while higher brain functions are busy else where?
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To the first comment - Whoa. I should have labeled this post rhetorical. I was more looking to get myself unstuck by writing a piece about having no piece to write, than to get a response; but, I'll attend to the comment - clearly you spent time on it!
1) It's essentially a story about guardians created for opposing purposes, neither of which are aware of it. One is a princess and the other a dock-hand from another race at the other end of the continent. The likelihood of encountering one another was infinitesimal, which of course means it was inevitable. The story involves escaping from an arranged marriage, the palace guard and two separate forces bent on using one or the other of them to gain the power that only they have access to while also trying to rescue the guy's kidnapped mother. That's the short rundown.
2) No, and I wouldn't want to. That story has a complete skeleton, and ties in historically with the books on either side of it in the trilogy.
3) There isn't one, really. That was part of my problem.
4) Not necessarily. I was simply pleased with how they came out.
5) The hardest bit for me, at least when I'm trying!
6) "Sleep walking narcoleptic lucid dreamer" was sort of a catch-all phrase I used to refer to waking dreams. It means exactly that: while moving through daily life, uncontrollably slipping into the dream state with no actual rest but very vivid overlays into her reality.
7) More often than Charlie would like.
8) Sophie has mixed feelings, but enjoys Charlie more than Charlie enjoys her, that's for sure. Mostly, she enjoys fully sharing reality with someone.
9) Sophie is capable of reaching the center. In fact, she's on an absolute path, a new soul on a one-shot-to-win kind of track for nirvana. Charlie has been dodging the center for a span that supersedes time, and Sophie has begun to act like a magnet, pulling her toward that absolute path which she has been trying not to follow.
10) Natural.
11) We know for a fact that they are not.
12) Opposites are more likely.
13) Never said it was a bad thing. This was the idea that led to me thinking of the whole thing in the first place.
14) The "ring of progression" thing is a reminder to myself of a visual model of karmic recursion that I wanted to use more literally. I think of it as a fountain, but you have the right idea.
15) Hence this, essentially an artist's block rant.
16) Not so much a "moral" that I'm after, as something I want people to think about with regards to the world. The idea I wanted to approach was the fear of "letting go."
Finished works may be a long way off, and I've actually decided to wait on this project, but getting the answers to these statements down in a list makes them easier to look at, and think about. :)
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Pssh besides it's been a few, months? (shit) since I've talked shop with any of the known to me writers. Just been reading their stuff and giving the somewhat pointless thumbs up along side their twenty other readers.
Hell it was more fun writing the constructive, if not pointless paragraph above, than any of the "I like what you did there comments" so... yah.
XD/:P
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Editing time appreciated. Your spelling looks better these days than it ever did!
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