ceywren wrote:

i'm so totally lazy when it comes to that stuff. i usually don't know jack all about my characters till i start shoving them in random awkward places and seeing what they'll do. usually i don't even know their names when i do it, either.

also, em: i'm soon going to make even more confusing that question you have about whether or not scout is gay. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Well, you better start mapping things out better or you end up with mountains just popping up in the oddest places. *grins*

Hah! I'll look forward to it, Ceywren.

I'm with Ceywren here....Gosh I'm now trying to work out my characters and the set-up for the story, but I really don't know how to do this. Usually I just find a nice sentence to begin with and the story grows from that...but now I'm actually working on writing this one story....it's giving me a very hard time. I know some of the things that have to happen, but it's the writing in between that gives me the biggest headache!!!!

My map will have to be done up soon. I'm going post-apocalyptic with this set of stories (I've actually a working title for them, odd for me), so I've got to be looking at some changes.

And:

WOOOOOHOOOOO!

I just set the goal and motivation for the guys who are against my protagonists. Now I basically have the whole story. I just need the little plot points that get 'em all where they're going--which is likely dead, knowing me. Oh. Did I just spoiler it for ya?

yay motivationness! if it makes you feel better, jen, i dun know anything about all the subgenres and stuff either. hell, i don't even know anything about grammar. sentence structure? adjective? huh? all i remember from school about all that is getting upset when my teacher told me never to start a sentence with "and". pah!

i just did a timeline for the last three days of my story. it was getting hideously confusing because there was so much happening. it took me about twenty-five chapters for three days. but once i finished that, i actually looked back at the last chapter i just finished writing and realised i had done something really stupid. for some reason i have a seagoing people trekking through a forest in the middle of winter instead  of taking a ship fifteen miles down the coast. wha? so have to rewrite that one. oh well.

i did my map first too, but i ended up changing it a little. it hasn't changed too much. the coastline has shifted a bit in a few places and mountains and seas have popped up, but the basic geography hasn't altered too drastically.

bah! i think i need to ditch the chapter i just wrote. which sucks because that was the chapter i did some background for one of my main characters and i'm not sure how else i'll go about it.

though maybe i just won't do any background on the character and instead i'll write a whole book on him when i'm finished this one. yeah...maybe i'll do that. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

begins with "s" ends with "t" and there's a "cou" somewhere in the middle.

ceywren wrote:

begins with "s" ends with "t" and there's a "cou" somewhere in the middle.

Let me guess - um - *scratches head*

ceywren wrote:

contrary to popular belief, i do not have a character named "scratches head".

ROFL!!!!!

You should, you know.

*imagines what Scratches-Heads brother would be named*

err...maybe not.

*doesn't even try to pronounce it* ;)

my map is one i used for a old story that never made it. i didn't consciously think to use it for silverbound, but it was convenient so i just started walking them through it.

Genisis X wrote:

*hurts self trying to pronounce it*

Say "it" with me i-tah (putting your tongue against your front teeth to produce the "tip alveolar consonant" or "flap") .

Genisis X wrote:

Your great, Em. You really are!

*struts*