Wow, I can't believe it has been Seven months since I last posted anything on this blog.
Well, yes I can believe it, because Mouse came to an end, Knights needs reworking and Ghost got put to the side while I was working on my Nano project and didn't really get picked up again, then I started on a set of stories, that I think of as Dark Primal, which I wasn't interested in posting here.
Once again Dark Primal needs a lot of work, but I have 2 stories written in that verse.
I have been keeping up with the Magic Spreadsheet, but I am struggling with my writing at the moment. I am now level 10 and if I want to keep up my bonuses I need to write 700 words a day. This is a problem when I don't know what to write, so it's been the spinning of plot bunnies for a while now.
The problem being that I want to go back to Dark Primal and rework the story, because as it currently stands it is a Dark AU fanfic. I think it could work as Original fiction, because the chars were rather OOC because of events that happened earlier in their time line but I am a little afraid it is a bit too Grimdark.
Well that, and if it's original fiction, I have to go back and outline the history of that world, rather than using the crib notes of the fandom. Which is proving harder than I expected. I mean I know what I want the shape of the history to be, but it is proving difficult to pin down.
I want to get back to Ghost at some point, but I think the story deserves a re-read before I start writing it again, and the next bit is Death T, which is going to be complicated.
Then there is Storium, which is a great game, and a time sink, and not helping with my writers block.
In Storium I am a ghost in one story set in the far past, I am a crew member of a Spaceship set about a hundred years in our future, I am narrating a story about people cursed into the form of toys, while playing a mouse and a rag doll.
And I feel guilty that I haven't put much time and energy into them lately.
I need to refocus myself, writing 700 words a day might be good, but if I am just writing bits and pieces that don't make any sense standing alone, I'm not doing that great a job.
So Current bunnies:
Dark Primal
A term of heroes gone bad as their World falls apart around them. The story begins as they discover the heroes destined to follow in their footsteps, will they rise to the challenge and discover how to be true heroes again?
Honda's Ghost
Requires a re-read, and a plan for Death T, because it won't go the same way as cannon, it can't.
Gaming the System
Now this plot bunny is mostly unformed, but the base idea is this:
A Character finds himself at the 'Game Over' screen of his life, and starts a new game. When starting a new game, he has many Avatars to choose from (most of whom are locked).
The 'Player' levels up slowly, unlocking abilities and stat points as he collects lives, and at the beginning of the game he can add (or subtract) points from any stat.
The 'Avatar' lives his life, and what he knows is very dependent on how much of his memory the Player as locked down.
The question is, how does the Player unlock more Avatars? Children. And since each time he plays an Avatar it is impossible to have the same children again, each time he plays his start Avatar he creates a new World, and that World diverges each time he plays as one of his children, or grandchildren, or distant descendent.
