Saturday, May 2, 2020

Sweet Summer Children (Years 3)

...I think about this sometimes. I'm sure this is Lile's reaction to Little Rebellions.


Dear Lile, WIP Challenge

I saw this on the writer-web and (if she's up for it) I'm challenging Lile! She can pick the WIP.



Here are my words: heart, shoes, forget, lips, sun, falling, compulsion, vice, virtue, pulse.
Erik's Edit: thrust

Two More Picspirations

Gaige, 37
I have no idea why he has a picspiration. He does not come back up for a while but I imagine him as stern, smolder-y beard-y Danny Pino. In the future I'd like to write a little flash fic from his POV...


Alan, 33 
He also does not come back up much but Paul Walker's hair in this pic is very time period relevant, except it should be longer at the bottom. Alan's origin is very much a Noodle Incident



I did it, Faulkner
I've been embracing Kill Your Darlings and turned into a ruthless editing machine. Every time I look at something I try to cut  a few words--which is why I happened to have had Chapter 2 in a web based word counter before I lost it. At first I was tightening up sentences  but lately I've cut whole scenes and interactions from serials to show not tell.  At first I was saving the scenes  but now I just hit delete and it feels...good ?

One of the scenes  I deleted from Nova (I saved it it but it's not worth sharing) is where we learn Nova has been looking for a sparkly purple nail polish his Dad painted his nails with before he died and when Nova finds it, it's  dried out and he takes it out on Luce and Sara. It happens right after their first on page fight and I was trying to show how grief can sneak up I little ways but then I realized the whole serial was about that and the scene could go.

Also, this is why in SWM his phone case is sparkly purple πŸ’œ

I just cut a 1,000 word scene from Years that I'm saving but I'm hoping to be able to do something with it later. I'll talk about it when we get to it. Nobody is asking but yes, it was a sexy scene. πŸ˜‰

Throwback Corner (This segment needs a name)
Okay, I was going to save this for a future post because this blog is getting long but I have to share what I've been up to. I've taken from Lile (again) and gone waaay back to my 2009 blog posts to pull things to discuss.

 There are some gems but  early days is  a mess of weird Cobalt in-fighting and pedantic  daily life posts. I was also  had this odd habit of talking about my character as if they were fully in control of the story ???

There was a little dust up early on where people didn't like that Juliana was blonde and I was super dismissive about it and just plain wrong. It's especially cringe-y  considering I was in inspired by Jim Jones to write UL--although UL turned a little more Waco-y. If there was one thing I'd go back in change it might be that, she probably should have been a POC.

I also haven't gotten to the paradox line origin but "the thing itself" has been with us for a long time.  This is from August 2009, my 4th ever blog post where I decided I wanted to make a serial:



We were so formal back then. I kept being like Linda who ?

Also some of you were a little shocked  when Sawyer said f*ck you to Caine after he....tased him or something ? I don't remember. Oh, sweet summer children











Anyway, there are 10 fucks in this chapter of Years...

Years 3
After 7 years in an abusive relationship Haley calls Luce Grace, his roomate's friend and former co-worker, to help him leave his abusive boyfriend at the 1998 Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. 

Let's skip to what happens in 1999...

Playlist 
-1- Never Wake by Sanders Bohlke
-2 -Taxi by EXES 
-3- Terrified by Terror Jr. 
-4- Sometimes by Britney Spears
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