Showing posts with label off-topic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label off-topic. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Halloween post: Thought process and delay

You know how I promised you a Halloween-themed story this week? Unfortunately I don't have it done, but not due to laziness. I just couldn't answer my own questions.
Here is a record of the thought process that has led 2 days ago to a coherent summary:
Why did the Wicked witch become bad?
Love? Too typical. The story of a villain reforming due to love has been done and re-done for so many times it is unoriginal and uninteresting.
Loneliness? I use that too much in my stories. Besides, loneliness is a good reason for turning evil, but not good.
........ umm... what else?
No reason? That would be good, giving me a good chance to build a random character. One of those fascinating, unpredictible characters.
.... I don't have a proper action. What could be?
I know! Good is bad and bad is good. Wait, what? Yes. The witch came to realise that what she believed is evil is actually good, so she reasons that what she believed is good is actually the real evil. What about that?
. . .  Still, I need a summary. I have no idea. Let me start writing and see where I end up. Ah, a 15 lines about how lonely she is. When did I even come up with Amanda? Did my subconscious watch Diagnosis Murder again?
Okay, okay, Let's see...
So Amanda is evil and a witch. What does she do?
She kidnaps royalties for ransom. She casts spells to her benefit. She mistreats her underlings.
But what's the normal consequence? Do they admit their defeat? Most likely they become stronger and tougher to win against. So Amanda realises she's actually helped them.
Now what?
How does she reform?
What will she do?
Will my story have an actual plot?
I almost have an answer to these questions, but to find out, wait until I finally manage to finish writing the actual story. Definitely before Saint Andrew's Day, for which I'm planning supernatural posts and a story with vampires, undead, witches, maybe ghosts... (which I'll start writing with more than 4 days before the deadline...)
Any way, to find out Amanda's story, join me next week, either on Tuesday or on Thursday.

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Lots of "blah blah blah"s and the wicked witch's reform

Ahhhh, it's that time of the week again! The time I recap all of the ideas I came up with throughout the week and cross out those who are either too similar to those already posted or are too full of my robot delusions and realise I've got nothing to post. Yeah. This week I'll refrain from posting another story, mainly because I would have to finish one to post it and I also want to post a Halloween story I've got no ideas for. (So, tune in next week to see what I come up with to conceal the fact that I've got no idea what I'm writing!) And did I mention it's 2:28 a.m. here? And that I have to be up at 6? ...
What's with the long and pointless introduction again, you may ask. If not, I've got my Imaginary readers handling the asking of uncomfortable and/or obvious questions. In case you're wondering, my Imaginary readers are some really annoying voices I come up with after asking myself how can my words be misinterpreted. To answer your question, that long introduction serves the same purpose as this paragraph: to distract you from the fact that I've got no idea what to write. Actually, the only certitudes I have are the fact that I really need sleep and the fact that I have to come up with something really awesome next week to make up for today's this month's laziness. Well, I guess we'll have robot ghosts then. How about this: a tale about the wicked witch wishing to reform herself. By "wicked witch" I refer to the archetypal evil sorceress in fairy-tales: knows various spells, is creative, envious, controlled by an unexplainable grudge against the main character of the story and usually has a repulsive physique to match with the soul. What could lead her to reform? What feelings does the wicked witch have before and after? How does she atone for her wrongdoings? Does she manage to atone for them? Does the others' perception of her change?
I'll post next week my take on this story. As always, I'm looking froward to receiving feedback from you. There's a limit to how much my Imaginary readers can stand my writing.

Monday, 2 September 2013

This post is full of random - I'm trying to shed some light on some... posting... things...

So... umm... I kind of made this blog with the intention of being serious about it and sticking to the topic, no matter how much my mind's yelling "Hahahahahh, write a post on chocolate. Yaaaaa! Riding on Rainbows! Reverse Nyan Cat! It's ought to make a good political satire! Why don't you comment upon that weird thi.... OOOH! Look, those treeeees! <3 Could you post pictures too?" (yes, my mind actually thinks those things in that succession). And... I still want this. So... umm... because I am as random as you've seen above, I think this post... will... help me clear up the mess while shedding some light about ... something.

Alright, after this highly hesitant and rather irrelevant start, I would like to say:

  1. I would really like to post some new idea or possible source of inspiration every week since I do have several posts in my tiny distracted little brain, but every time I try wording them out, they sound plain stupid. (Pfft! Like there could be a possibility that they're actually really incredibly stupid!) 
  2. When I have nothing of any significance in my head, I'll post a story I've written. Maybe I'll start with this week's post, I've got a story I wanted to share with you guys for quite some time.
  3. As I've said time and time again, I'd love to link other peoples' stories as well, especially if they're fit for one of the posts. Same with other ideas or sites with inspiration. If no link, I'll credit the people.
I'd love to hear what you have to say on this matter. Really. (If ever I would get any form of acknowledgement of this blog's readers, I'll cry tears of joy.)


That should be about it. I can't shed the feeling that I had something else really important to write, important enough to warrant my going so badly off-topic, though.


Oh! Indeed. 

Wouldn't a crossover between Humanoid Kikaider and Gepetto be the most awesome thing to ever possibly happen? Really, Internet, do you know if such a thing happened? Could you direct me to such a beautiful piece of fanfiction? Or, you know, if maybe my mad fan mind inspired you, be bothered to share it with me?