Subject: Gravity's Embrace. Feels good to have a title. (nm)
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Posted on: 2016-11-02 23:27:00 UTC
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Happy Halloween! by
on 2016-11-01 01:52:00 UTC
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Happy Halloween, PPC! It's kind of weird that I'm the one saying this, because my family didn't really do Halloween all that much. We just bought lots of candy and ate it ourselves. ^_^ But what is everyone else doing for Halloween? Also, is anyone doing NaNoWriMo this year?
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NaNo by
on 2016-11-04 05:08:00 UTC
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As far as actually finishing a novel, I rather doubt that. But I think I will take time to at least put some work towards the novel I've been working on for what feels like a decade. And maybe I'll even get a rough outline of the RPG I want to release at approximately the same time I finally get that thing published.
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Live(journal) streaming NaNo! by
on 2016-11-02 21:22:00 UTC
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I wasn't going to do NaNo this year... but then I had an idea for a first scene. I've no idea where it's going after that scene, but I want to find out.
I've also decided to make the whole thing public as I go along. So I'm putting it up on Livejournal! You can read along or comment as you wish (and if you're on LJ, friend me!). If people do comment, I may throw in some reader interaction - y'know, for when I run out of ideas.
Currently-untitled NaNo 2016
(I've run out of ideas now. :-/)
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Drifting away from maps: NaNo cover. by
on 2016-11-08 12:57:00 UTC
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I finally managed to pin down a summary for Gravity's Embrace (which is up to nearly 15K words; you can read the most recent section plus links to the rest here). And since I had, I felt this was also a good time to knock together a front cover. (Apparently it increases your chances of finishing by 60%! Who knew?)
So I did. It's a scene (slightly modified) from the most recent sections, and it's in black and white because colouring-in is hard. But I still quite like it.
(Map ideas are still welcome!)
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Gravity's Embrace. Feels good to have a title. (nm) by
on 2016-11-02 23:27:00 UTC
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NaNo geography is NaNo destiny. by
on 2016-11-03 11:44:00 UTC
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I need - and this is the first and only time you'll ever hear me say this - some ideas for filling out a map.
Gravity's Embrace is set in our own semi-near future, but things have gotten a bit... strange. Western Europe looks something like this:
Since I have no idea where the story is going, I also have no idea how much of the map I'm going to use, but that's the thing: the more map I have, the more I can be inspired by.
So I want your suggestions. As the five nations on there show, they can be anything - we've got a cultural grouping (the Celtic League), a micronation writ large (Greater Sealand), a pair of independence movements (Euskadi-Catalunya, AKA Basque Catalonia), an in-joke (Hail Liechtenstein!), and an ancient nation reborn (the New Etruscans, whose pantheon the Romans nicked). The only other point I have on the map is that the western US is dominated by Deseret, the Mormon-theocratic state they made a vague effort at in the 1850s.
Everything else is empty. And I want it to be full. So chuck everything you've got at me. I don't promise to use it all (particularly if it overlaps, or if I flat-out don't have a clue what you're on about), but I'd really like to fill out the world, so I probably will. ^_^ Simple names + areas are fine, but if you want to give a cultural summary, go nuts!
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I highly doubt this'll fit the tone... by
on 2016-11-04 22:36:00 UTC
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But how about:
The International League of True Australias?
A great collective of states of various sizes (usually really, pathetically small), scattered all over the place, from Northern Russia to Easter Island, each of which is totally certain that it is the true, one and only Australia, and that the others are all fakes.
The only factor they all really share is a total disdain they exude towards each other, and their collective title is really more of a nickname, given by all the real nations.
- You could put them anywhere you reckon's funny. The less hospitable, the more nonsensical, and the further away from the actual continent they are, the better. -
Excellent ideas all round. The map expands. by
on 2016-11-04 16:09:00 UTC
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Here's where I'm at now:
The Holy Prussian Confederation isn't a functioning nation - it's a mangled heap of city states sprawling across Germany. And the Vikings of Vikingar use submarines - with dragon heads carved on the prow. :D
I haven't done anything with the other continents as yet, because a) I've only had the handful of suggestions from EAIUO, and b) I don't know if I'll be going there. There is one country coming up in the narrative which isn't shown on this map, but there's a very specific reason for that... the New Netherlands will be brought up soon enough.
You can keep track of the ongoing story on my LJ. And if you've got any more ideas for the map, go ahead and throw them at me!
(All borders on the map are approximate, except for those of Imperial Liechtenstein: 'from the Danube to the Po' is too good a rallying cry to pass up.)
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The west coast of the 'states... by
on 2016-11-06 17:12:00 UTC
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I suspect there will be two nations on the lovely west coast - Cascadia in the north, stretching along the coast from southern Alaska down through Oregon's Willamette valley (and into Redwood country beyond), and expanding inland to fill the Columbia River basin of eastern Washington. To the south, The Bear Republic of former California fills the central valley and southwards almost to LA - the LA basin and southlands in general, of course, are a blasted wasteland extension of the mojave desert. (But seriously, the good people of Deseret are not going to continue pouring the heartblood of the Colorado river in to California, and that's going to cause Problems for LA.)
Cascadia tucks really nicely into the corner of Deseret, by your map - there's a diverse economy, too, from the techno-industrial heartland of the Salish Sea ports to the rolling wheat fields of the Palouse. The nation's power sources are sustainable, massive hydro-electric facilities on the Columbia river and wind turbines dotting the coast and highlands. I'm not entirely sure what your future chronology looks like, but they're probably still very upset with Washington DC for not cleaning up the Hanford site, trying to declare themselves the "State of Washington", and probably beating them out in the final Superbowl before the United States fractured.
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You win this round, Cascadia. (Map update) by
on 2016-11-07 09:41:00 UTC
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First, the story so far, for which the map has minor spoilers.
Then:
I can link to Google My Maps, apparently.
Most of the ideas people have brought up have been incorporated in one way or another (often combined - hence the Polish-Lithuanian Papal State, under its Pope-President-Grand Duke.) Juliette, I've pretty much adopted yours wholesale, down to the Kootenai Nation (population: 165). I had to laugh at 'I'm not entirely sure what your future chronology looks like', though - yeah, I don't even know when this is set, let alone how we ended up with a world this cracked. It's NaNo - who cares?
Specific things people have mentioned that I'm considering but haven't yet put in:
-Newer York. I'm not sure what else is going to crop up on the east coast, so I'm keeping it unmarked for now.
-Neotsarist Russia. I've left a space for it, but don't know if it's the only state up there.
-Australia. The idea of a bunch of Australias all insisting they're the real one is hilarious; I just haven't decided whether they're dotted around the world, or different fragments of Australia itself.
-Japan. Given that I've reduced the British Empire to Gibraltar and the Pitcairns (sun status: still not technically set!), I'd quite like to give the other island nation the opposite treatment. I remember Japan occupying swathes of China at some point, but I've drawn a blank on precisely which bits.
If you've got expanded suggestions from the above, or entirely new ideas, go nuts! There's a lot of world left to fill.
Places namedropped in the narrative so far:
-Celtic League
-New Etruria
-Imperial Liechtenstein
-Greater Sealand
-Euskadi-Catalunya
-Deseret
-Tex-Mex Republic
-United Kingdom of Israel and Jordan
-Persian Caliphate
-Golden Mongolia
-Cascadia
-New Netherlands
-Holy Prussian Confederation
Which is a pretty decent chunk, actually.
No idea where we're going next, of course. NaNo!
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It occurs to me... by
on 2016-11-07 19:00:00 UTC
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Vikingar (which is hard to see on the map, FYI) could be a lot bigger. There are stories, and some evidence, that the Vikings had colonies on the east coast of North America (see Vinland) and may have even penetrated the interior as far as Minnesota, which has a fairly significant Scandinavian heritage. They eat lutefisk, doncha know!
Or New Vinland could be its own thing, because why not? {= D
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Vinland... is on the map. ^_^; by
on 2016-11-07 19:26:00 UTC
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I've tweaked the colour to make it more visible, because fair point. But Vikingar extends to northern Newfoundland, which is the site of L'Anse aux Meadows, which is the only proven Norse settlement in the New World.
They may extend further if I visit them. I don't think they'll go inland, though - submarines don't go on roads!
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Ah, whoops. by
on 2016-11-07 20:28:00 UTC
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Yeah, didn't see that. I'd also been thinking of some arguments that they'd gotten further south because of the grapes (around Massachusetts, I think?) and imagining Viking sub patrols along the Northwest Passage. {= ) Still, if there's no need for it, there's no need for it.
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Interestingly! by
on 2016-11-07 21:17:00 UTC
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There's some discussion of whether the 'vin' is said with a long i - meaning 'wine' - or a short - mmeaning 'meadow'.
I mean, the 'wine' reading goes back to at least the 1200s, and the 'Meadows' in L'Anse probably doesn't come from meadows, but it's an interesting coincide all the same.
Also now you've put the idea of Vikings in the Northwest Passage in my head. Villain.
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Some further ideas for Europe. by
on 2016-11-10 03:19:00 UTC
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1: Montenegrin Neo-Ambrosian Republic
Comprising Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, southern Croatia (with the new border extending from Buhaca to Senj), northwestern Bulgaria (including Sofia), the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and northern Albania, the MoNARchy, as it is commonly nicknamed outside its borders, is a powerful nation held together by energy exports from its fusion plants and ruled by the Captaincy-Defenderate from the Capital-University at Cetinje. MoNAR is causing something of a brain drain in neighbouring states, as its attitude is "more scientists = more Scary Death Widgets that make the Gomos think twice before killing us and taking our stuff". Notably absent from its borders, however, is...
#2: Kosovar Khaganate
... the Kosovar Khaganate, a brutal military dictatorship in the Spartan mould which nevertheless has managed to retain its independence as an enclave of the MoNARchy, largely due to outside support from other juntas like the Unamiguously Separate Sevastopol Republic, the Tex-Mex Republic, and...
#3: The Fourth Rome
... The Fourth Rome, with its mighty capital Palatinograd (formerly St. Petersburg) fuelling a grinding war of attrition with the Gomos and fighting proxy wars against them in their interests around the world. There are other glittering cities, too - Quirinograd (Tallinn) and Caeliograd (Helsinki) on the coast, the arctic ice palaces of Esquilinograd (Tromso) - but by the decree of the Emperor Franz Karl II, none may rival Palatinograd's splendour. -
What did Kosovo ever do to you? by
on 2016-11-10 16:28:00 UTC
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I mean, I've added it, because enclaves are funny, but I still have to ask.
I've also added four far-eastern nations: the Empire of Japan, North Korea (nobody wants North Korea), the People's Republic of China (now in Taiwain), and the Republic of China (no longer in Taiwan, now in Penghu). I don't know who's running China these days, it's like one of those IQ tests. COMPLETE THIS PATTERN: Empire--Republic--One-Party State--________
I still haven't decided what to do with Russia. So far we've had Tsars, the Fourth Rome, and some generic imperialism. They might even pair with the blank space between Mongolia and the MoNARchy to form Tomash's Orthodox League, which would then be in direct opposition to both the Mongols and the Papal State.
Hmm. That doesn't even necessarily conflict with your Fourth Rome idea. Could you explain a bit of your logic on that one, perchance?
(And then the Tsars could set up shop in... Alaska. :D 'White Russian' indeed.)
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If I might quote from a Muscovite monk... by
on 2016-11-10 18:26:00 UTC
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"Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth. No one shall replace your Christian Tsardom!"
-- Philotheus, addressing Vasili III of Muscovy in 1510.
The idea of the Third Rome has been present throughout history, with more than a few people laying claim to it. Ivan III of Moscow, Mehmet II of the Ottomans, Mussolini, that sort of person. In your future, with those having failed at various points, we can have this Latin-inspired demented empire covering the westernmost parts of Russia as well as northern Latvia, Estonia, Finland, bits of Sweden, and the parts of northern Norway that the Vikingar either don't want or can't take back. The Third Rome of the Ottomans is dead. Long live the Fourth Rome! Long live the Emperor! Death to the infidel Mongol! Death to the heretical scientist! Glory everlasting for the Quadriromulate Patriarchate of Palatinograd! And so on.
The irony is, I had it in my head that the Muscovite Third Rome would not actually be part of the Fourth Rome - it only really reaches as far south as the border with the Battle Pope in my head. If you wanted, you could easily fit in a generic Rus state around Moscow. Also, Tsarist Russia retreating to Alaska is awesome and brilliant and you should totally do it.
As for China, maybe a Properly Paranoid fortress-state based around bunker-villages called tulou, which in our history are a kind of rammed-earth castle-village capable of supporting hundreds of people. Perhaps this China is comprised of massive versions of same plonked everywhere, massively decentralized and massively fortified, with half the population living beneath the ground. Their exports are hydroponically-grown foodstuffs and anti-radiation technology, as well as cheap building materials... hmmm... perhaps a representative democracy, with each tulou its own constituency... just a thought.
As for the Kosovar Khaganate, I just wanted an enclave and this seemed like the best way to do it. You can never have enough paranoid juntas in sci-fi.
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Well, I've added the three Russias. by
on 2016-11-11 14:10:00 UTC
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The third one, Moscow and its hinterlands, is the personal estates of the House of Putin, and is technically subject to the (no longer extant) government of the Russian Federation.
China, now... those tulou are brilliant. :D I'm doing that. And I think I'm going to give them Mongolian tech and make them a high-tech Socialist state, too, with assembly factories in each megatulou that make everything you could ever need. After all, monarchy--republic--communist--properly socialist is a reasonable trajectory.
It probably means they don't have a central government, which also means their borders are a bit... amorphous. And that some of them probably go bad. What was that ultra-crowded one-building city called? Somewhere in the far east, it's gone now.
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I like this a lot. by
on 2016-11-07 14:56:00 UTC
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But writing on mobile is showing.
The fact that the entire floor was soft meant that, technically and for the first time, Areatha was in bed with with me.
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It's NaNo. by
on 2016-11-07 15:05:00 UTC
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A typo like that is just another word for the count!
Fine, fine, I'll edit it... ;)
(Seriously, though. At the moment I'm doing fine - I've already passed today's 1667, actually. But if I start to struggle towards the end of the month, expect to see lines like "I count one... two... three... four... five..." allll the way up to a hundred and six or something.)
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Pay no attention to the gleefully prancing Hufflepuff. by
on 2016-11-07 10:20:00 UTC
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He's just positively giddy at the thought of his home state being part of an independant nation.
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Silly ideas by
on 2016-11-04 20:15:00 UTC
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We all know about Cascaida (or whatever they're calling themselves), right? The breakaway state that forms out of Western Oregon, Western Washigton, and the bits of British Columbia at the very least after a political collapse in every near-future balkanized US? Full of granola-munching hippies? Yeah, so that's a good starting point, but too dang obvious. How about?
1) The Cascadian Protectorate and/or Expanded Cascadia. So, the Cascadians got into a war with someone, and realized that they should have, like, you know, an army or something. And they kind of went a bit overboard with the military and war thing and went on a conquering spree. Either south down the west coast of California to reclaim the usual liberal strongholds of SF and so on or up through Canada. Either way, you have a country that will impose modern liberal social democracy by any means necessary. There is a non-zero chance of a military junta in this scenario. (Political structure in non-core Cascadia is something you'd have to define.) Border clashes with Deseret are optional.
2) The Cascadian Union. It turns out that hippies don't always form nice cohesive political units. (Or someone got way too hopped up on the idea of local democratic control.) You end up with a large collection of city-states that share a culture and basically do their own thing. The central government of the Union still does stuff, but it's rather Articles of Confederation-y. Central laws tend to be passed by constitutional amendment referendum, if at all.
I can also throw some slightly less crazy suggestions out for Central Europe.
1) Russia goes on an empire-forming rampage. Boring.
2) Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth is back! And maybe also includes the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and some other places. Low-key ethnic tensions remain an ongoing problem, but things are doing ok?
3) The Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) join in on whatever's going on in the far north.
4) Mongol invasion 2. Russia is a bit screwed. History is repeating itself with an alliance holding back the hordes somewhere in East-Central Europe. Or b) The countries that would have formed an alliance (Poland, western Ukraine, Hungary, etc.) have developed a case of nationalism and are still doing the thing, but with more internal conflict and a tense diplomatic situation.
5) Papal States v2. If the Etruscans aren't big fans of the Pope, the Papacy has probably run for it. They might have gone and set up shop somewhere in the really Catholic bits of Europe and re-formed the Papal States there because why not? (Well, mostly to fend off other upstart countries.) Which leads to
6) Orthodox League. It's ... pretty much what it sounds like, and contains most of the land area you'd expect it to. Remaining minor theological disputes have been ... resolved. Westward military expansion aimed at spreading the true faith (tm) optional.
7) And for another lazy historical callback, just balkanize the place. There's bound to be some interestingly obscure lines to cut on. (The western border of what used to be the Russian Partition is probably a reasonably cutting point for Poland specifically. It might swallow up some other stuff)
- This has been speculation by someone who has no business engaging in it. Use at your own risk. -
Also, speaking of conquering the world... by
on 2016-11-06 17:34:00 UTC
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The Cascadian Protectorate has historical precedent; it turns out that Cascadia is kind of good at conquering the world. We're currently doing it with assorted corporate empires - UPS, Costco, Weyerhaeuser, Paccar, Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile, Starbucks... the list goes on. It wouldn't be terribly nice to turn that ability (and technology base) to warfare - but it also wouldn't be terribly hard. And, depending on how the United States breaks up, we could easily be the only nuclear-armed western successor state.
("Like, you know, an army or something"? That sounds like something Californians would say.)
Ooor, if you want a completely different spin on future history, have Cascadia be another piece of Vikingar! We have so much in common - rugged glacial terrain, terrible weather, chronic vitamin D deficiencies... Seattle traditionally was a very Nordic town, and we're currently very politically compatible. (An independent Cascadia today would rapidly become a very liberal social democracy, in Nordic style.) -
Oh come now... by
on 2016-11-06 17:18:00 UTC
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Cascadia welcomes our northern neighbors, of course - I've seen maps that propose cascadifiying the entire inside passage up to Mount Fairweather and Glacier Bay in Alaska. We would also be entirely willing to help the good people of upper British Columbia, either as part of Cascadia proper or a protectorate to be shared with our neighbors of the First Nations.
But California? California? That is a bridge too far, my good friend. California can keep itself and continue choking on its own ego. Bloody loud extroverts. Except the redwood country, we'll take that.
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Ideas, you need? by
on 2016-11-04 16:30:00 UTC
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(Like Yoda, shall I speak!)
If you want to be optimistic, you can always make Israel finally achieve peace with the Palestinians and Arabs. If you want to be pessimistic, you can have a nationalist Israel stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates because the rest of the Middle Eastern states kinda went in the way of Iraq and Syria. -
I've been waiting for this. :) by
on 2016-11-04 16:51:00 UTC
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So my question is: in keeping with the general tenor of the map, what's the weirdest scenario you can imagine working? Personal union between the king of Jordan and a revived Israelite monarchy? A Nile-Euphrates Israel studded with random enclaves of 'The Xxxxxian Territories'? Huge mechanised armies in a Shia/Sunni all-out war, with Israel playing lynchpin-kingmaker in the middle? I'd quite like something that doesn't have Israel still surrounded by enemies, but also isn't just 'peace at last'. (Though actually, there's a pretty strong statement to be made there...)
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Oh yeah also. by
on 2016-11-04 17:32:00 UTC
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I read the bits of story you've already written, and I like them. They give off this Heinleiny vibe.
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Thanks! by
on 2016-11-05 00:17:00 UTC
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I've read some Heinlein, though it was a while back; I know enough to be flattered by the comparison, though!
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Also also by
on 2016-11-04 22:49:00 UTC
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Škoda is Czech.
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Weirdest? by
on 2016-11-04 17:12:00 UTC
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Well, I personally find "peace at last" to be the least-plausible of the "realistic" scenarios, so to speak. Going crazy, though? Take the Nile-Euphrates scenario, mix in a Balkanised Middle East except for Iran, and suddenly you have a Middle-Eastern Cold War between Israel and Iran, while the rest of the place is a Syria-style mess. Bonus points for Israel suffering from some sort of an insurgency — either Kahanists who find Fascist!Israel to be not racist/religious/Fascist enough, or Communists.
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I got a few ideas by
on 2016-11-04 05:04:00 UTC
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- Czarist Russia Reborn. The last surviving Romanov Pretenders finally managed to win back Russia and are in the process of reclaiming the lost imperial boarders. I would imagine they rulers would still be somewhat lavish given they are still royalty, but would be far more spartan given them trying to prevent another revolution.
2. Acadiana. If you're splitting up the US why not have those pesky Louisianans split off. After all they already have their different legal system, why not make it official?
3. Vikings. Based out of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and with Iceland you could even take the approximately .8% population that practices Germanic Neopaganism and make that the dominate group, and voila, true vikings.
4. Unified Korean Empire. North and South Korea reunite, and offer a front to stand against a strong China in East Asia, smaller nations join with the Unified Korea to stand against China. Or alternatively....
5. A Resurgent Japanese Empire, for essentially the same reasons. You could take it a step further and put together a new Japanese Shogunate.
6. 5 Nations. Native Americans decide that it is time to reclaim some of their lost culture and band together concentrating around the New York/Canadian Border
- Czarist Russia Reborn. The last surviving Romanov Pretenders finally managed to win back Russia and are in the process of reclaiming the lost imperial boarders. I would imagine they rulers would still be somewhat lavish given they are still royalty, but would be far more spartan given them trying to prevent another revolution.
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Do what Europa Universalis IV does... by
on 2016-11-03 16:11:00 UTC
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And just have the entirety of Western and Central Europe be a big ol' pile of clown puke. Dismantle the German Union. Bring back the German city-states and minor principalities. Hell, have more of them! Bung in a Netherlands split as well. Reform the Delian League. Make Pontus a thing again. You have all of history to choose from, hS; make it count. =]
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The Rupublic of Texas will rise again! by
on 2016-11-03 16:01:00 UTC
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And probably expand a bit
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No NaNo for me, but... by
on 2016-11-02 03:30:00 UTC
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I am at least going to attempt to be more productive. I've got a mission approaching completion (not "Subjugation," sorry), and a fluffy sort of plotbunny that entered my brain and won't leave me alone. If I can get both of those published this month, I will be very pleased with myself. {= )
Good luck to those of you doing it for real!
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Happy One-Day Late Halloween! (nm) by
on 2016-11-01 23:21:00 UTC
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Happy Halloween, yeah. by
on 2016-11-01 08:21:00 UTC
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Says the one who never celebrated it and won't celebrate it. It's just another day here.
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Well, I haven't done any trick-or-treating since college. by
on 2016-11-01 17:32:00 UTC
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Because really, would YOU have any time for handing out/going door-to-door for candy when you have like five assignments due the next day? X'D
Though nowadays I have to throw myself into job searching 24/7, because society says I can no longer devote any of my spare time to "kiddie fare". -
I'm aslo siding with the "No Hallowe'en" Camp... (nm) by
on 2016-11-01 15:08:00 UTC
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Doesn't happen all to much here, either. by
on 2016-11-01 10:36:00 UTC
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I mean, the neighbour's got a pumpkin-container, I suppose. It doesn't store pumpkins, it just looks like one. All orange and such.
Might have lollies in it. Um. Perhaps.
There's an equal opportunity for it to contain solidified window cleaning liquid, so, I dunno. I mean, I dunno.
Happy Halloween, anyway! To people who are celebrating Halloween!
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Happy Halloween! by
on 2016-11-01 07:43:00 UTC
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I am performing that most sacred of rites, the wait until midnight to start writing. I have about half a plan - that's about right for NaNo, right?
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Yep, same here. by
on 2016-11-02 19:44:00 UTC
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Well, maybe three quarters of a plan. I'm basically the halfway point between planner and pantser, really. What's your story about?
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Plort! by
on 2016-11-02 19:47:00 UTC
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I am writing an account of the First Ypur War, and the surrounding First Union era of Plort. Many, many liberties are being taken with history.
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Apropos Plort... by
on 2016-11-02 20:49:00 UTC
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Weren't you working on another story as well?
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I was, aye by
on 2016-11-03 05:50:00 UTC
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It's still a draft sitting in google docs - I didn't get it to the point that I'd want to chuck at co-writers, a coherent narrative structure really wasn't appearing. So I'll backburner it for a while and think about it while I write other things.
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Ooh, cool! by
on 2016-11-02 19:51:00 UTC
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I look forward to reading it! Plort is the best alternate PPC, in my opinion. It can always use more stories.
I'm writing LotR fanfiction; I've had various drafts of the same story on the back burner for nearly two years now, and I want to finally get the whole thing out.
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I carved a pumpkin! by
on 2016-11-01 02:57:00 UTC
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I already showed a few other Boarders, but...
And Sir Aegis and Lady Iximaz went out for a lovely candy-collecting stroll together. And Sir Aegis was finally introduced to the Horrific Rocky Lands. T'was quite fun.
Can't say I'll be doing NaNo since I'm busy with work, but I'll definitely try to bang out some more of mybizarreoriginal story. The one I had the weird RP thing for, with Death and Hezrak and all that jazz. -
It looks awesome! by
on 2016-11-02 19:44:00 UTC
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I've actually never carved a pumpkin, which is probably good, because the resulting mess would be too horrifying for words. ...Except that's kind of the point of Halloween, so maybe I should start carving pumpkins. ^_^
Cool! I like that one. Let me know when/if I can read some of it!
-Alleb