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anthony Site Owner
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hikaru Administrator
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Aramis Dagaz Registered User
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 174 Location: the City of Roses
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Hey, don't sweat it, Hikaru. We're patience furs. Reality keeps all of us from our beloved hobbies most of the time.
Take your time and don't rush things (well, don't take <i>too</i> long, of course ) _________________ Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Enter the City of Roses... |
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hikaru Administrator
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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YEAH!!! Can't wait. _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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hikaru Administrator
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 1581 Location: Kansas City, KS, USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: ARRrrrgh! Get back in the box, you! |
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I've got a problem.
Act IV.
Yah, yah, yah... I said Act III would be the end of the story and then there'd be a sequal involving the kids. At best, Act III would have several epilog chapters that helped round up the loose ends from Act I and close up the story nice and quietly.
Everything was going just fine until someone unexpected go out of their box while I was driving and threw my "post chapter 50" wind-up story plot a complete and total curve ball that wound up not only going out of the field, but changing the nature of the game itself.
Confused? Good. I like that. It's why I think I'm going to take this new curve ball and run with it.
So what's the problem you ask? Simple. I can't keep my mind on chapters 48-50 in order to write them. I keep thinking about situations that will be occuring in Act IV. I should have half a chapter written tonight, and I can't get anything down because my mind keeps wandering into Act IV and all the plot-twists that are going to come springing out of the story. (Note to self: See if there's a sale on pogo sticks at Sears. I think I'm going to need them.) (2nd Note: Forget that. As entertaining the idea of Sheila on a pogo stick is, I'm not gonna go there!)
Oh well.. Hopefully I'll get it out of my system by Saturday so I can get a chapter down.
Cheers _________________ Read my comic: http://www.ImperialGelf.com
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taspacecampjh Moderator
Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 529 Location: Abilene, Texas
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:35 am Post subject: |
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*hands a pogo stick to Hikaru*
*chants "Do It! Do It! Do It!"*
*bangs head on brick wall leaving a dent*
trying to get our conversation on AIM out of my head
*leaves hole in wall* _________________
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:51 am Post subject: |
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YES!!! I was hoping this would happen I didn't want to say anything but I had thought your plan to tie up the loose ends back in Sheila's world in a few epilog (or is that prolog I forget) chapters was a bit criminal Good luck with 48 - 50 _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Dragon-Kitsune Registered User
Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 141 Location: Between time and eternity
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:37 am Post subject: |
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So this thing is going continue confusing us even longer? Awesome! _________________ Text is void if truth is not written, text above this note is void. |
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Henry_Hound Guest
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yes more confusion. Chaos is fun but when your completely dumbfounded it's even better. I just hope the confusion doesn't make my head explode :microwave: |
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hikaru Administrator
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Shadu Registered User
Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 336 Location: Barranquilla
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:20 am Post subject: |
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cool!!!!! Oh man now im going to be checking your page every five minutes _________________ __________________
New Dog In Town! |
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hikaru Administrator
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 1581 Location: Kansas City, KS, USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject: Hmmm... Preaching? |
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One of the scenes that I have planned for the next chapter is to have Sheila sit down and have a talk with the angel about something that happen. The talk eventually turns to the nature of "the game", how it came about and why "God" has all these goofy rules that don't always make sense.
As I was doing a little stream-of-conciousness roll play in my head while updating a bunch of PC's, Sheila comes to a personal realization that starts the angel off on a discussion of faith, religion and etc. By the time the conversation was over, I knew that I'd have at least 15 pages or more covering JUST that conversation and am VERY happy with the general overtones and reults from it. The problem is that I realized tonight that people might feel I'm preaching at them. Although the story DOES have religion as a major point of it's setting, I've never actually defined much more than "Heaven & Hell" exist, GOD is the creater, and there's a dumptruck load of altnernative religius stuff that exists as being "real" to the characters.
Hmmm...
Now that I think of it, I believe I'll leave the entire conversation in. It will finalize a lot of loose ends and even though it just MIGHT come off as preachy, it never actually does that.
I'd post more details, but if I did that, it would ruin the plot, no?
Oh well.. Just the ramblings of an exhausted writer who should be in bed, but isn't.
Cheers _________________ Read my comic: http://www.ImperialGelf.com
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Henry_Hound Guest
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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I say go with it. The way you've described it it sounds like it has a lot of important plot points in it. |
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Xaqtly Registered User
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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I'm looking forward to it. While you've referenced heaven and beep (haha) many times, I've never felt that this story has overbearing religious overtones, I like very much the tone you've set. Don't worry about it, as long as it serves the story (and it sounds like it does indeed) then it's good. _________________ Changed my name to Kantaro. |
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