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AntoniaMerEnfant

PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:56 pm


This Thread: a Place to put raw words, the ones you cannot really seem to make work. A good place to get pointers-- but make sure they are constructive pieces of criticism. Remember this thread is for the raw materials and by nature aren't perfect.

This is mine, I had a lot of conflicting emotions running through me so I just slapped some random phrases and ideas on a word processor. I think it was an indication of my pain level because I couldn't come up with anything that worked. The last line is in French, and is probably the only line that matters.

Tacos and Bananas:

The path to tomorrow winds through a vacant yesterday. I peel off dead skin, forgetting that it is a piece of me. Somehow I awoke from a placid dream and you were embedded in my very life. My soul is a house. I yearn to walk through long neglected rooms and throw open the shades. It is magnetism—I am drawn in as you push me away and our opposite poles collide. I weep and stumble upon the jagged words of my mind. Je suis en seul.
PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:44 am


I like the idea behind this thread. I have a few things I'm going to post, but they're really more summaries of projects that never were for one reason or another. Ideas that never made it past the idea stage.

#1
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Kaldar Artanis, the Adjudicator. It's a name that's whispered from one end of the galaxy to the other. He is a judge. A cleanser of plagues. A Destroyer of Worlds. His warship, the Penace, appears in our solar system for the third time in its existance and is heading for Earth. In the early 21st century humans are beginning to reach out to stars and people dubbed "post-humans", extraordinary men and women with super-human abilties, are beginning to gain acceptance into a society that has largely shunned and feared them for years.

The Adjudicator views humans as a plague and wants to end their menace before it can spread to the stars. When he makes his presence first known by attacking man's first mission Mars, it isn't long before his relentless assault of Earth begins and world militaries are helpless to do anything against this ruthless alien. Even Earth's strongest post-human proectors seem helpless to stop his rampage. Can he be stopped, or is Earth doomed to suffer the same fate so many other worlds have?


As you can probably tell, this one was meant to be a super hero/sci-fi story but for some reason I never got going with it past maybe a few characters being made. There was going to be more to the story than just "Alien wants to destroy the world" and it was going to be told from shifting points of view. One chapter would cover an event as Artanis saw it and the next would be through the eyes of a human reporter as he saw it or as the people he'd be interviewing saw it. I may go back to this one day as I kept all of the notes on it for future ideas and what not, but maybe it was just too ambitious *shrugs*

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AntoniaMerEnfant

PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:25 pm


I like it-- the big idea stories are sometimes hard to write. I think doing the leg work of explaining things is always a hefty task. Sci Fi and fantasy are my favorite genres to write-- but I always feel like I get bogged down with explanations.

Do you think a level of mystery may be a good thing to try? That also gives you some time t mull things over as you're writing. Sometimes I find when you step away from a project too long it gets abandoned.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:32 am


I think an element of mystery could be a good thing. I like it when things aren't explained, but I think it all may depend on the situation.

Like in the remake of the movie Dawn of the Dead I liked the fact that it was never explained why people were turning into zombies. The whole focus on the story was these people simply trying to survive this situation without getting killed and there wouldn't have really been any point to them knowing where the creatures came from. Some times explanations can actually bog things down, I find. It's all about finding the right balance, really.

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