Today's fannish plan

[lizardbeth]

RIP Creamsicle, one of our three goldfish, this morning. Poor little dude - he's been fading for days. :(

Today I will work on Black Sails, and also try to lay out my plot for my NaNo project.

this was last year's poll with descriptions of my four ideas.

I think I've decided to do the modern romantic thriller idea with genre elements. The three fantasy ideas are more problematic: one is too large to deal with in NaNo (and possibly the Dragons in the East thing is too reminiscent of GoT these days. It wouldn't be the same, but still) One is part of a world I created with others which makes it legally un-doable and therefore pointless to rewrite. The third I have a draft for it that I'd completely replot and redo but I'm just not enthused about it enough.

But thrillers mean hardcore structure and plot. Which since I don't actually KNOW the whole plot, means I better get to figuring it out! I don't even know my female lead well enough since I kind of want her to do incompatible things.

And I'm also trying to decide whether writing it as a fanfic AU (which is what it started out as) or stripping that out from the beginning (i.e. changing the names) will make it quicker/easier to write.

Comments

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I was not. I'd, uh, actually forgotten that in the hilarity of PIANO-PLAYING AND ROCK STAR SCIENTISTS. ahem.

I am sorry the goldfish died.

but I might be tempted to keep them in their canon boxes, when they have to be able to develop naturally

And that's generally the crux of the problem, or so I've heard.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I knew you weren't - it was just funny since we usually reply in order. Anyway, not even kidlet is broken up by it, so it's okay if you were giggly. :)

Speaking of giggly:
I DID NOT SHARE MY NEW PLAN YET. WHICH IS ROCK STAR SCIENTISTS AND PIANO PLAYING SPIES..

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

....!!!!!

That is like extreme id-crack for my brains. It is perfect.