John's Still Missing. Here's what I have. I don't know what to do.

May 12, 2010 16:01

Hi. This is dawny_darko, I finally remembered John's password. I'm sorry if you don't know me, I'm notbatman's wife and, if you don't already know, he's disappeared as of last Monday. I don't have email addresses for everyone anymore so I guess I have to do this on fucking Livejournal of all places. The Police still aren't being very helpful, though they promise the ( Read more... )

lj idol, underground, fictional life, pictures, adventure tuesday!

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mizzlaurajean May 12 2010, 22:29:59 UTC
Wait what? John is missing? And this other friend is missing so he went to look for him?

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notbatman May 12 2010, 22:30:55 UTC
It's fake, it's fake! Fiction.

There's a disclaimer at the (very) end.

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mizzlaurajean May 12 2010, 22:38:44 UTC
Oh okay I didn't see that. You really had me freaked out.

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notbatman May 12 2010, 22:44:12 UTC
I'd like to take this opportunity to state, for the record, that Dawny encouraged me to drop the usual LJ Idol related subject line and link that generally preceeds Idol posts.

I'm (mostly) sorry. :)

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kittenboo May 13 2010, 00:01:41 UTC
I read the first few lines and got nervous, then jumped to the tags to look for idol tags, lol.

great job, I have thought of doing a similar approach for an entry, but never came up with a good idea for it.

Off to read the other one!

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notbatman May 13 2010, 02:57:13 UTC
Thanks! The timing just worked out perfectly for this one. I've wanted to do fiction and I've wanted to kill a protagonist for a while, but I am most comfortable in first person, which presents challenges with getting the story out without breaking something or ending with "And by the way, I'm a ghost. Boo!"

So I came up with this and I've been wanting to do this already, but I couldn't figure out how to communicate the actual death, keeping the telling consistant, and keeping it under a million words.

The double topic really kind of opened up the possibility.

I'm a little worried about how dense it all is, especially relying on both parts to get the whole, but I'm also finally starting to understand the idea of being happy enough with a story that I'll be ok if it's my last for idol.

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Thanks for the Fucking Heart Attack! apalmborg May 13 2010, 01:55:59 UTC
I shall now go defib myself and pour another Jack. Good show! :-)

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Re: Thanks for the Fucking Heart Attack! notbatman May 13 2010, 02:58:02 UTC
Yay Jack!

(mostly sorry)

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caveman May 13 2010, 02:31:15 UTC
I may kick you in the balls later. Just so you know. (Now I can go back and read it for fun.... Punk)

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notbatman May 13 2010, 02:58:38 UTC
Five ball sacks!

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mpuzzle May 13 2010, 14:46:42 UTC
"Shit! John's missing?!?"

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"Wait... Since Monday??? Pfff, Dawny would have called me looong ago. Yay Fiction!"

Well done!

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notbatman May 13 2010, 14:59:07 UTC
Thank you, sir. :)

I really wanted to push the dates back a little farther, but too many people saw me at the party on Saturday.

Though, realistically, it looks like I've stirred up quite enough panic as it is, so....

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