story tiem u gaiz!
Can I just say that I have WAY TOO MANY FUCKIN' STORIES? Seriously, you guys, I'm like always writing. My fictionpress account (http://www.fictionpress.com/~rockethappy) has 7 stories on it, 6 of which are works in progress, and I have 5 stories in mind that I haven't written anything for but I have ideas for. It's INSANE.
And just because I have to get it all out, I will now give brief overviews for ALL MY STORIES. Underneath the cut!
1. My first story is called Till Death. It's a supernatural romance, a ghost story, and it's my most popular story. It's currently undergoing a major rewrite, because it just wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. The plot is being redone, as are the characters, and the ghost is being seriously changed. His personality, his character, his past (his past is undergoing the least of the changes), and even what he is. I mean, he's a ghost, but before, he was just a regular traditional ghost. Now I've come up with my own type of ghost, and I really like it.
In the newer version, the story goes that Alexander McDuffie, who grew up abused by his father, was planning to get married and start a new life in New Orleans when his fiancee, Fiona, left him at the altar. He went back to his home, which was the hotel, and hanged himself. He now haunts the hotel. Over a century later, a girl named Junie Avery stays at the hotel on a school field trip. Fiona, Alexander's fiancee, is an ancestor of Junie, and Junie bears a striking resemblance...so striking that it catches Alexander's attention, and he begins to haunt her.
In the first version, Alexander haunting Junie was a secret, because Alexander could stay invisible. In this version...well, let's just say that seeing the spitting image of the woman who caused him to kill himself really has an impact on Alexander, and it pretty much attracts everyone's attention. So things sort of go to shit when the world sees this dead guy with supernatural powers following this random girl around.
2. My second story is my second most popular story, and it's called Your Name is Kitty. It's a sci-fi/action/adventure sort of thing, and there will be romance, and I'm having lots of fun confusing my readers about who the real love interest is. Is it the guy who the heroine was canonically in love with, but he died? Is it the psychotic little kid who's way too young for her? Is it the psychotic little kid's older brother? Muahaha, I'M NOT SAYING.
Anyway, this might go under a bit of renovation, too, since I don't have a lot written. I just want to fix up some of the beginning and I'm changing the names of the species. I did have a reason for calling the planet "New America" and the aliens and humans "New Americans" and "Pre-Americans" but it seems to be only causing confusion for my readers. XD And I don't want to alienate my readers from other countries. The name wasn't very vital to the plot, anyway, so changing it won't be a problem.
It's set several centuries in the future, about two hundred years after the "end" of the world. The Earth has been invaded by an alien race whose home planet was soon to be engulfed by it's sun. Earth was the most hospitable planet they found, and they only needed to make a few genetic alterations so that they could survive there. They created a new race that combined their species with humans, and then they eliminated the human race. And why not? Humans are brutal and warmongering and ghastly - the planet is much safer without their destructive ways. Run by this new species, Earth is now New Terra, and it's dominate species are the New Terrans.
But some humans, now known as Pre-Terrans, survived the invasion. They went into hiding, disappeared, and survived. They've long since given up trying to take back their planet - their only concern is keeping their race from going extinct. They are known as Soldiers - Pre-Terrans soldier on through life as a hunted, inferior race. The New Terrans still capture stray Soldiers, and if they don't kill what they find, then they put them in a Pre-Terran Enclosure, which is basically a sort of zoo or historical museum that features Pre-Terrans, showing the world what used to be the dominant species on the planet.
In one of the enclosures, there is an unnamed girl, who was captured in a battle between the Eradicators - New Terrans whose job is to take down rebelling Pre-Terrans - and her family of Soldiers. She's infamously violent and fiesty, a popular attraction at her enclosure. In fact, she attracts the attention of the princes of New Terra, Remy and Sidney. The younger prince, Prince Sidney, takes a sick and special interest in her, dubbing her Kitty. Kitty is thrust into a new and frightening part of New Terra, the part she's never seen. As Kitty struggles to escape and return to her rebel group in the untamed wilderness of New Terra, she will learn more about the New Terrans, the prince brothers, and herself when Prince Remy puts the thought in her head, "Everyone is born with flaws. Imperfections form our personalities, to ensure that nobody is exactly alike. But sometimes, you get a flaw that's difficult to manage. Sometimes you get a flaw that's dangerous. Sometimes, your flaw is a glitch."
LOL I FAIL AT SUMMARIES.
3. Another story of mine is just a normal, lighthearted romance that takes place in New Orleans. (I love New Orleans, I make it the setting of lots of my stories. XD) The title is P is for Pantomime There's no drama or angst, it's just fluff and quirkiness. It's about a college student named Lainey who meets a mime named Pierce in Jackson Square. His social skills are...4%. HE IS AWKWARD AND CUTE. He's interested in Lainey, Lainey is interested in Pierce, and the story is about them getting to know each other. But it's tough, because Pierce's method of capturing her interest is refusing to speak. Whether he's doing his mime thing or if he's just out and about, his lips are sealed around Lainey. And Lainey wants him to talk.
There will be PARTIES. There will be AQUARIUMS. There will be COFFEE. There will be KITTENS WITH ONLY THREE LEGS. There will be SNOW. There will be STREETCARS. There will be a SURPLUS OF CUTENESS. The story is told from Lainey's point of view, but I might write a companion piece from Pierce's, just 'cause. :D
4. The Girl in the Tower is my next story, and it's a fantasy/romance. The settle is in a place called the Land, and the time is...well,, to be honest, I have no fucking clue LOL. It could be in the past, it could be in the future, it could be now. But it's not in our world. I mean, it's on Earth, but things are way different.
The main characters are the Girl and the Boy. They don't have names. I don't think I'll give them names, because it feels weirdly poetic and simplistic in a nice way to have them just be the Boy and the Girl.
It's about the Girl, who lives locked in a tower at the very edge of the Land. Everyone in the land knows about her and her tower, and it's an accepted fact across the Land that "the Girl in the tower is dangerous, and she can never be free." They don't know why she's dangerous, but it's been established that "if she were free, it would explode across the Land." Whatever it is, nobody knows, but they just know it sounds bad, so they've left it at that.
The Girl is known to look down at the Land with a strangely fond expression on her face that no one can explain. The people of the Land have never seen such fondness, so naturally they fear and dislike it. But there's a Boy in the land who's also kind of strange. He doesn't fear the Girl's fondness, and he isn't satisfied with the half-assed reason for the Girl's imprisonment. I mean, really? "The Girl in the tower is dangerous, and she can never be free. If she were free, it would explode across the Land." Talk about vague. So he sets off on a mission to free the Girl from her tower, because whatever "it" is, he wants "it" to explode across the land.
I like the way I summarized it on FictionPress: In a Land of many Questions, there was only a single absolute certain fact: the Girl in the tower was dangerous, and she could never be free. If she were to be freed, then it would explode across the Land. But there was a Boy, and he was dangerous, too.
5. The Definition of Sanity is my most recent story, and I'm really invested in it. I only have one chapter written, but I have the three main characters fleshed out a bit. The story is an action/adventure thing with a little bit of romance and bucket loads of Ho Yay (see: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay).
How do I explain the universe it's set in...
Okay. Ever watch Family Guy? Or pretty much any cartoon? Think about how everybody there thinks. Everybody's either stupid or selfish. Car wreck happens, everybody kind of just stares. Horrific incidents are played for laughs or ignored, which wouldn't happen in our world. Everything seems to have the bystander effect (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect) on people or the diffusion of responsibility (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility). Think of the SEP field (Somebody Else's Problem field) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem
The universe in The Definition of Sanity runs on the bystander effect and the diffusion of responsibility. Everything is somebody else's problem. Why? Well, part of the story is figuring that out.
The main character is Ned Campbell. He's like most people in this universe. Think about it. That's like you living in a world where nobody would care if you got hit by a car so long as it didn't interfere with their lives. So yeah, he's sort of an outcast. Then he meets Ichabod, a man whose mind functions like Ned's. And, well, there aren't a whole lot of people like them in the world, so once they meet each other, they don't very much like the idea of parting ways. Who can blame them? Ned's been alone, wondering what's wrong with him his whole life, and so has Ichabod. They could fucking HATE each other but, hey, it's better than going through all that alone when they can have a little company.
But Ichabod's on the run from the police. He's close to finding out why his mind is so different from the rest of the world's, and the government doesn't want him to know. And Ichabod is dragging poor Ned along for the ride. Then they meet Kerrington, a girl who teeters on the fine, fine line between the logic of Ned and Ichabod and the absurdity of the rest, and all three of them embark of a chaotic, irritating mission to stay alive and retain their sanity...because there's not a lot of that in this world.
6. Stacy's Mom is a little story I'm working on in my spare time. It's basically just about a boy and a girl who hate each other teaming up to take care of a duckling that imprinted on the boy. XD
7. Jane's Lagoon is a story I've had in my head for over a year now. I haven't written anything down. I can't decide whose POV I want to write it from; I'm leaning towards it being written from the guy's POV.
The guy is a sort of...siren? I don't really know; he has siren qualities, but he doesn't fit with the myth. I'll just say he's a siren. His name is Murdoc. Murdoc's species loathes humans, and so they do a ritualistic "hunt" every few months. The sirens in his school/shoal/community/whatever spread out across the bodies of water over the planet and sing, seducing the closest human to them. The kiss of a siren will allow a human to breathe underwater, and so the sirens will take their catch back to their home where they perform a group drowning, and then they eat the humans. >.>
Murdoc is on his first hunt, on the coast of Florida, and when he sings, it lures a little five-year-old girl named Jane to him. Murdoc, as a siren, naturally feels hate and is bloodthirsty at the mere thought of a human, but Jane doesn't spark the desire to kill within Murdoc. Oh, he feels hate, alright, but he can't make himself want to kill her. And since this is his first hunt, Murdoc is kinda panicky, because he's supposed to bring the first human he lures home. So he sends Jane away, ordering her not to come back even if she hears his song beckoning her. So she goes, and he sings again, and he seduces Jane's father this time.
Thirteen years later, Jane is back in Florida. She can't clearly recall the night she met Murdoc, since she was under his spell, but she knows it was the night her dad disappeared. Ever since hearing Murdoc's song, music has been almost painful for her to hear. She and Murdoc meet again, and he recognizes her, blah blah blah...he's falling in love with her and hating her at the same time, she's terrified of what he is but she's a slave to his voice, and she's falling in love with the real him over time, blah blah blah...drama surrounding the fact that Murdoc murdered and ate her father...yeah. XD
8. My idea for a story called Kate and the Candelabra is best explained in this summary: You know, when I enrolled into a private school for the upcoming school year, I wasn't expecting anything big. I expected things like cleaner hallways and classrooms, maybe. Students that were a bit more well-behaved. Better school supplies. That sort of thing. I wasn't disappointed; but then I somehow got roped into something I wasn't bargaining on - the Drama Club. And before I know it, I'm setting off on a journey with a plethora of strange characters with a goal that isn't as simple as it sounds: Performing Beauty & the Beast for the annual school play. Sounds painless, right? Wrong. As our quirky, bitter theater director puts it: "As of today, we are the universe's most dysfunctional family. I am a reluctant single dad, and you all are my adopted children. And you all have daddy issues. Each and every one of you is the 'Well Done Son Guy' and I am the father that is obscenely difficult to please. Oh, and...we all probably live in Arkansas. You'll see why."
Good GOD, that was a lot! I'll have to create a character sheet for these.
And just because I have to get it all out, I will now give brief overviews for ALL MY STORIES. Underneath the cut!
1. My first story is called Till Death. It's a supernatural romance, a ghost story, and it's my most popular story. It's currently undergoing a major rewrite, because it just wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. The plot is being redone, as are the characters, and the ghost is being seriously changed. His personality, his character, his past (his past is undergoing the least of the changes), and even what he is. I mean, he's a ghost, but before, he was just a regular traditional ghost. Now I've come up with my own type of ghost, and I really like it.
In the newer version, the story goes that Alexander McDuffie, who grew up abused by his father, was planning to get married and start a new life in New Orleans when his fiancee, Fiona, left him at the altar. He went back to his home, which was the hotel, and hanged himself. He now haunts the hotel. Over a century later, a girl named Junie Avery stays at the hotel on a school field trip. Fiona, Alexander's fiancee, is an ancestor of Junie, and Junie bears a striking resemblance...so striking that it catches Alexander's attention, and he begins to haunt her.
In the first version, Alexander haunting Junie was a secret, because Alexander could stay invisible. In this version...well, let's just say that seeing the spitting image of the woman who caused him to kill himself really has an impact on Alexander, and it pretty much attracts everyone's attention. So things sort of go to shit when the world sees this dead guy with supernatural powers following this random girl around.
2. My second story is my second most popular story, and it's called Your Name is Kitty. It's a sci-fi/action/adventure sort of thing, and there will be romance, and I'm having lots of fun confusing my readers about who the real love interest is. Is it the guy who the heroine was canonically in love with, but he died? Is it the psychotic little kid who's way too young for her? Is it the psychotic little kid's older brother? Muahaha, I'M NOT SAYING.
Anyway, this might go under a bit of renovation, too, since I don't have a lot written. I just want to fix up some of the beginning and I'm changing the names of the species. I did have a reason for calling the planet "New America" and the aliens and humans "New Americans" and "Pre-Americans" but it seems to be only causing confusion for my readers. XD And I don't want to alienate my readers from other countries. The name wasn't very vital to the plot, anyway, so changing it won't be a problem.
It's set several centuries in the future, about two hundred years after the "end" of the world. The Earth has been invaded by an alien race whose home planet was soon to be engulfed by it's sun. Earth was the most hospitable planet they found, and they only needed to make a few genetic alterations so that they could survive there. They created a new race that combined their species with humans, and then they eliminated the human race. And why not? Humans are brutal and warmongering and ghastly - the planet is much safer without their destructive ways. Run by this new species, Earth is now New Terra, and it's dominate species are the New Terrans.
But some humans, now known as Pre-Terrans, survived the invasion. They went into hiding, disappeared, and survived. They've long since given up trying to take back their planet - their only concern is keeping their race from going extinct. They are known as Soldiers - Pre-Terrans soldier on through life as a hunted, inferior race. The New Terrans still capture stray Soldiers, and if they don't kill what they find, then they put them in a Pre-Terran Enclosure, which is basically a sort of zoo or historical museum that features Pre-Terrans, showing the world what used to be the dominant species on the planet.
In one of the enclosures, there is an unnamed girl, who was captured in a battle between the Eradicators - New Terrans whose job is to take down rebelling Pre-Terrans - and her family of Soldiers. She's infamously violent and fiesty, a popular attraction at her enclosure. In fact, she attracts the attention of the princes of New Terra, Remy and Sidney. The younger prince, Prince Sidney, takes a sick and special interest in her, dubbing her Kitty. Kitty is thrust into a new and frightening part of New Terra, the part she's never seen. As Kitty struggles to escape and return to her rebel group in the untamed wilderness of New Terra, she will learn more about the New Terrans, the prince brothers, and herself when Prince Remy puts the thought in her head, "Everyone is born with flaws. Imperfections form our personalities, to ensure that nobody is exactly alike. But sometimes, you get a flaw that's difficult to manage. Sometimes you get a flaw that's dangerous. Sometimes, your flaw is a glitch."
LOL I FAIL AT SUMMARIES.
3. Another story of mine is just a normal, lighthearted romance that takes place in New Orleans. (I love New Orleans, I make it the setting of lots of my stories. XD) The title is P is for Pantomime There's no drama or angst, it's just fluff and quirkiness. It's about a college student named Lainey who meets a mime named Pierce in Jackson Square. His social skills are...4%. HE IS AWKWARD AND CUTE. He's interested in Lainey, Lainey is interested in Pierce, and the story is about them getting to know each other. But it's tough, because Pierce's method of capturing her interest is refusing to speak. Whether he's doing his mime thing or if he's just out and about, his lips are sealed around Lainey. And Lainey wants him to talk.
There will be PARTIES. There will be AQUARIUMS. There will be COFFEE. There will be KITTENS WITH ONLY THREE LEGS. There will be SNOW. There will be STREETCARS. There will be a SURPLUS OF CUTENESS. The story is told from Lainey's point of view, but I might write a companion piece from Pierce's, just 'cause. :D
4. The Girl in the Tower is my next story, and it's a fantasy/romance. The settle is in a place called the Land, and the time is...well,, to be honest, I have no fucking clue LOL. It could be in the past, it could be in the future, it could be now. But it's not in our world. I mean, it's on Earth, but things are way different.
The main characters are the Girl and the Boy. They don't have names. I don't think I'll give them names, because it feels weirdly poetic and simplistic in a nice way to have them just be the Boy and the Girl.
It's about the Girl, who lives locked in a tower at the very edge of the Land. Everyone in the land knows about her and her tower, and it's an accepted fact across the Land that "the Girl in the tower is dangerous, and she can never be free." They don't know why she's dangerous, but it's been established that "if she were free, it would explode across the Land." Whatever it is, nobody knows, but they just know it sounds bad, so they've left it at that.
The Girl is known to look down at the Land with a strangely fond expression on her face that no one can explain. The people of the Land have never seen such fondness, so naturally they fear and dislike it. But there's a Boy in the land who's also kind of strange. He doesn't fear the Girl's fondness, and he isn't satisfied with the half-assed reason for the Girl's imprisonment. I mean, really? "The Girl in the tower is dangerous, and she can never be free. If she were free, it would explode across the Land." Talk about vague. So he sets off on a mission to free the Girl from her tower, because whatever "it" is, he wants "it" to explode across the land.
I like the way I summarized it on FictionPress: In a Land of many Questions, there was only a single absolute certain fact: the Girl in the tower was dangerous, and she could never be free. If she were to be freed, then it would explode across the Land. But there was a Boy, and he was dangerous, too.
5. The Definition of Sanity is my most recent story, and I'm really invested in it. I only have one chapter written, but I have the three main characters fleshed out a bit. The story is an action/adventure thing with a little bit of romance and bucket loads of Ho Yay (see: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay).
How do I explain the universe it's set in...
Okay. Ever watch Family Guy? Or pretty much any cartoon? Think about how everybody there thinks. Everybody's either stupid or selfish. Car wreck happens, everybody kind of just stares. Horrific incidents are played for laughs or ignored, which wouldn't happen in our world. Everything seems to have the bystander effect (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect) on people or the diffusion of responsibility (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility). Think of the SEP field (Somebody Else's Problem field) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem
The universe in The Definition of Sanity runs on the bystander effect and the diffusion of responsibility. Everything is somebody else's problem. Why? Well, part of the story is figuring that out.
The main character is Ned Campbell. He's like most people in this universe. Think about it. That's like you living in a world where nobody would care if you got hit by a car so long as it didn't interfere with their lives. So yeah, he's sort of an outcast. Then he meets Ichabod, a man whose mind functions like Ned's. And, well, there aren't a whole lot of people like them in the world, so once they meet each other, they don't very much like the idea of parting ways. Who can blame them? Ned's been alone, wondering what's wrong with him his whole life, and so has Ichabod. They could fucking HATE each other but, hey, it's better than going through all that alone when they can have a little company.
But Ichabod's on the run from the police. He's close to finding out why his mind is so different from the rest of the world's, and the government doesn't want him to know. And Ichabod is dragging poor Ned along for the ride. Then they meet Kerrington, a girl who teeters on the fine, fine line between the logic of Ned and Ichabod and the absurdity of the rest, and all three of them embark of a chaotic, irritating mission to stay alive and retain their sanity...because there's not a lot of that in this world.
6. Stacy's Mom is a little story I'm working on in my spare time. It's basically just about a boy and a girl who hate each other teaming up to take care of a duckling that imprinted on the boy. XD
7. Jane's Lagoon is a story I've had in my head for over a year now. I haven't written anything down. I can't decide whose POV I want to write it from; I'm leaning towards it being written from the guy's POV.
The guy is a sort of...siren? I don't really know; he has siren qualities, but he doesn't fit with the myth. I'll just say he's a siren. His name is Murdoc. Murdoc's species loathes humans, and so they do a ritualistic "hunt" every few months. The sirens in his school/shoal/community/whatever spread out across the bodies of water over the planet and sing, seducing the closest human to them. The kiss of a siren will allow a human to breathe underwater, and so the sirens will take their catch back to their home where they perform a group drowning, and then they eat the humans. >.>
Murdoc is on his first hunt, on the coast of Florida, and when he sings, it lures a little five-year-old girl named Jane to him. Murdoc, as a siren, naturally feels hate and is bloodthirsty at the mere thought of a human, but Jane doesn't spark the desire to kill within Murdoc. Oh, he feels hate, alright, but he can't make himself want to kill her. And since this is his first hunt, Murdoc is kinda panicky, because he's supposed to bring the first human he lures home. So he sends Jane away, ordering her not to come back even if she hears his song beckoning her. So she goes, and he sings again, and he seduces Jane's father this time.
Thirteen years later, Jane is back in Florida. She can't clearly recall the night she met Murdoc, since she was under his spell, but she knows it was the night her dad disappeared. Ever since hearing Murdoc's song, music has been almost painful for her to hear. She and Murdoc meet again, and he recognizes her, blah blah blah...he's falling in love with her and hating her at the same time, she's terrified of what he is but she's a slave to his voice, and she's falling in love with the real him over time, blah blah blah...drama surrounding the fact that Murdoc murdered and ate her father...yeah. XD
8. My idea for a story called Kate and the Candelabra is best explained in this summary: You know, when I enrolled into a private school for the upcoming school year, I wasn't expecting anything big. I expected things like cleaner hallways and classrooms, maybe. Students that were a bit more well-behaved. Better school supplies. That sort of thing. I wasn't disappointed; but then I somehow got roped into something I wasn't bargaining on - the Drama Club. And before I know it, I'm setting off on a journey with a plethora of strange characters with a goal that isn't as simple as it sounds: Performing Beauty & the Beast for the annual school play. Sounds painless, right? Wrong. As our quirky, bitter theater director puts it: "As of today, we are the universe's most dysfunctional family. I am a reluctant single dad, and you all are my adopted children. And you all have daddy issues. Each and every one of you is the 'Well Done Son Guy' and I am the father that is obscenely difficult to please. Oh, and...we all probably live in Arkansas. You'll see why."
Good GOD, that was a lot! I'll have to create a character sheet for these.