Sigh.
Well, I'm approximately six thousand words behind on my NaNo. I've been kind of doing actual schoolwork lately. And hanging out with friends. And not sleeping.
I came over here partially to procrastinate and partially to share that I just made up a film using the basic idea of my characters and I actually like it better than my NaNo. I mean, not really, but... kind of. I'm at that part of NaNo where I'm dang sick of it and never want to write another sentence.
Also, I know it's really sketch that I put in Julian's name where I did... I'm sorry. I'm too tired to come up with a new male French name. And I changed Sophie's details a bit... I turned Adélaïde's duke into a count and gave him to Sophie instead. And I made her title one of those old ones instead of a recent one her grandfather bought off the king or whatever the heck's going on.
The story will focus on Sophie, which is short for Joséphine-Marie Françoise de Blomet. She is a girl in her late teenage years of average looks and above-average wealth. Her father is the baron de Blomet, so Sophie is a proud member of that soon-to-be hated upper class, and she is engaged to marry a middle-aged count whose first wife died in childbirth. She is rich, spoiled, and very pleased with the way things are going in her life. Early in the story, though, after her daily routine and her pampered lifestyle is made evident, she receives a mysterious unsigned letter which tells her to be careful in the upcoming days and that anything that goes wrong will soon be righted if she can be patient. Sophie assumes the letter is a prank and ignores it. The next morning, however, she awakes and finds herself not in her fine canopied bed and panelled bedroom but atop a lumpy straw mattress with only a few dirty rags instead of her customary satin bedclothes and, to her absolute horror, a strange young man at her side. The man tries to calm her down, but everything he says only adds to Sophie’s confusion-and to his own. It eventually becomes clear that Sophie has slipped into an alternate reality wherein she is not the baroness de Blomet at all, but a peasant with a job as a seamstress and handsome romantic lead sort of husband, Julien, who is, among other things, very patient with memory loss. As the story progresses Sophie will continue to slide back and forth between the two realities and will, of course, learn to love the honesty of the poor lifestyle over her own snobbish rich one. As she is in each universe she will try to go back to the other, leading her to find her family’s estate heirless in the world where she is a peasant and to find Julien alone and penniless in her own reality. In the end of the story, just after she has realised that she does love Julien and could never imagine herself marrying the widowed count to whom she is betrothed in her own time, she will find herself back in her original reality and will receive a note that says that everything has been fixed and she need not worry. Of course, this is exactly what Sophie does not want, so she wraps everything up by stealing a great deal of her father’s money and eloping with Julien to England, where the oncoming Revolution will not touch her and she can have a happily-ever-after.
I know the Julian-Julien thing is squicky, but my professor doesn't so who cares. And anyway, no one in their right mind would describe my Julian as "a handsome romantic lead sort" (that would fit Richmond, maybe) so I say it's a coincidence and not even sort of the same character so no worries.
Okay hey. Speaking of people named Julien, I decided that in the magical third-reality happily-ever-after of my sequel, Joséphine-Marie will eventually have a daughter and name her Julienne. And since we know the third-reality-versions of Richmond, Sophie, and Julian will meet them (them being Joséphine-Marie, the alt!Richmond, and Adélaïde... and little Julienne) I've now starting imagining and doodling all these great scenes of third-reality-Julian as a kid playing with his sort-of niece in a park.
The thing is, though... does that mean that technically third-reality-child!Richmond would be Julienne's father too? And third-reality-child!Sophie would be her mother even though in her world (and every correct world, frankly) Richmond and Julian are all gay for each other and in obnoxiously adorable love? Hahahahahaa oww my brain. Okay I'm done procrastinating from finishing this paper now sorry.
I came over here partially to procrastinate and partially to share that I just made up a film using the basic idea of my characters and I actually like it better than my NaNo. I mean, not really, but... kind of. I'm at that part of NaNo where I'm dang sick of it and never want to write another sentence.
Also, I know it's really sketch that I put in Julian's name where I did... I'm sorry. I'm too tired to come up with a new male French name. And I changed Sophie's details a bit... I turned Adélaïde's duke into a count and gave him to Sophie instead. And I made her title one of those old ones instead of a recent one her grandfather bought off the king or whatever the heck's going on.
The story will focus on Sophie, which is short for Joséphine-Marie Françoise de Blomet. She is a girl in her late teenage years of average looks and above-average wealth. Her father is the baron de Blomet, so Sophie is a proud member of that soon-to-be hated upper class, and she is engaged to marry a middle-aged count whose first wife died in childbirth. She is rich, spoiled, and very pleased with the way things are going in her life. Early in the story, though, after her daily routine and her pampered lifestyle is made evident, she receives a mysterious unsigned letter which tells her to be careful in the upcoming days and that anything that goes wrong will soon be righted if she can be patient. Sophie assumes the letter is a prank and ignores it. The next morning, however, she awakes and finds herself not in her fine canopied bed and panelled bedroom but atop a lumpy straw mattress with only a few dirty rags instead of her customary satin bedclothes and, to her absolute horror, a strange young man at her side. The man tries to calm her down, but everything he says only adds to Sophie’s confusion-and to his own. It eventually becomes clear that Sophie has slipped into an alternate reality wherein she is not the baroness de Blomet at all, but a peasant with a job as a seamstress and handsome romantic lead sort of husband, Julien, who is, among other things, very patient with memory loss. As the story progresses Sophie will continue to slide back and forth between the two realities and will, of course, learn to love the honesty of the poor lifestyle over her own snobbish rich one. As she is in each universe she will try to go back to the other, leading her to find her family’s estate heirless in the world where she is a peasant and to find Julien alone and penniless in her own reality. In the end of the story, just after she has realised that she does love Julien and could never imagine herself marrying the widowed count to whom she is betrothed in her own time, she will find herself back in her original reality and will receive a note that says that everything has been fixed and she need not worry. Of course, this is exactly what Sophie does not want, so she wraps everything up by stealing a great deal of her father’s money and eloping with Julien to England, where the oncoming Revolution will not touch her and she can have a happily-ever-after.
I know the Julian-Julien thing is squicky, but my professor doesn't so who cares. And anyway, no one in their right mind would describe my Julian as "a handsome romantic lead sort" (that would fit Richmond, maybe) so I say it's a coincidence and not even sort of the same character so no worries.
Okay hey. Speaking of people named Julien, I decided that in the magical third-reality happily-ever-after of my sequel, Joséphine-Marie will eventually have a daughter and name her Julienne. And since we know the third-reality-versions of Richmond, Sophie, and Julian will meet them (them being Joséphine-Marie, the alt!Richmond, and Adélaïde... and little Julienne) I've now starting imagining and doodling all these great scenes of third-reality-Julian as a kid playing with his sort-of niece in a park.
The thing is, though... does that mean that technically third-reality-child!Richmond would be Julienne's father too? And third-reality-child!Sophie would be her mother even though in her world (and every correct world, frankly) Richmond and Julian are all gay for each other and in obnoxiously adorable love? Hahahahahaa oww my brain. Okay I'm done procrastinating from finishing this paper now sorry.