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[hempfandango]

So, I feel I should tell you guys what I told the cats down at Gaia.

The next chapter of the BB won't be updated for a while and with good cause, of which I will outline for your convenience.

1. Midterms, followed closely by...


2. Exams.


3. The release of Thud! (which I just bought today whoo and haven't finished SO NO SPOILERS PLZ) and Where's my Cow? (which I'm probably getting for Christmas)


4. The release of The Penultimate Peril (I also don't have this one woe D:)


5. The release of the fourth Harry Potter movie.


6. And, most pressingly, NaNoWriMo.

November is going to be rather nuts for me, mostly because of NaNo (which I plan on winning this year, dammit) and partly because of university (did you know university is kind of hard? I didn't. Boy, what a surprise that was.) However, after exams are done, I have a lot of time in December to kill so hopefully there'll be an update sometime next year.

Oh, and don't worry about the Winter Olympics distracting me. Although I am Canadian and living in Toronto, I don't like hockey.

I'm thinking about posting chapters of my NaNo on this journal. I don't know. I think I'd be too self conscious to post a piece of work that I haven't edited. Believe it or don't, but the BB is fairly carefully edited, grammar errors and all. I feel dumb enough when someone points out one of my many homophone mistakes ("It's "waste" not "waist". So, you're going to be an English major, huh?") that I can't even imagine what people'd say with my unedited crap ("The possessive "its" doesn't have an apostrophe, "machinerinal" isn't a real word, there shouldn't be a comma between "cocksucker" and "cow lips", and "famine" is spelt with six letters, not seven. Really, an English major?"). Further more, although I was initially excited about my plot, I've recently realized it's a giant, ridiculous sounding clusterfuck of genres with too many characters and a very vague theme. And I'm going to write it any way. Whoo.

Eh. I might just post it anyway, out of spite.

What are you guys doing for NaNo? If you are doing NaNo, that is. And if you aren't, why not you commie?

P.S. Is "clusterfuck" one word or two?
P.P.S. I still love you guys. F'real.

ETA: Big surprise, I was talked into it. I'm not going to pretend it's a big chore for me, because it isn't and that'd be kind of insulting to you guys, but I really am worried about what people will think about it. I personally think it has too many characters (who sound a little cliche on paper) but I don't want to ditch any of them. Ah well. If people don't like it, they're welcome to complain/MST.

Also, I made this last week, because people on the NaNo forums had some awesome graphics for their NaNos and I wanted one too.



It's too busy looking, I know. I like it anyway. :o

Comments

[saturnial.livejournal.com]

why thankyee.

I've got to post this as two comments coz it's too long, and I don't know how to screen it...

It's three interwoven stories - a woman called Katie stuck in a breeding program, Andy/Theo, and an as yet unnamed Red Haired Pirate Girl (RHPG for short)

It's all centered around my two guys who love each other and die, and its three diffrent viewpoints into their lives. Katie is a best friend and the mother of the wee kid - I haven't worked out the fine details of the program, but its something that women get drafted into at 16, and then stay there until they become pregnant, when they leave, and live with the man that was chosen to impregnate them. As a couple, they recive goverment grants, healthcare, education for the child, etc. She is trying to escape this hellish breeding program... then somehow... something happens to her? She gets pregnant and gets out, but she doesn't have the father supporting her - some sort of scandal that the big brother-esque goverment want covered up, as it goes against her doctrine. Perhaps she was raped by a high level official? But that could be far too angsty, I think. Or maybe the guy who gets her pregnant is already supporting another woman... Whatever it is, shes alone, and so slips through the net of support and money and healthcare that other women have. The goverment are keen to cover her up, and she gets quite sick. She stays with theo and andy - She's been friends with the boys for a very long time, and knows that they're both gay, and in love with each other, although they haven't gotten around to sorting out their feelings to one another. She gives birth to the kid, and then passes away quite soon after. She gives us the backstory, and her view on the boys as she knew them when they were coming to terms with their sexuality.

Andy and Theo's story picks up quite soon after katies leaves off - Because of the way her will was structured, they were allowed to live together in private as two guys - which was previousley forbidden. However, it takes them over a year and a half to work out the paperwork and forms and speak to the right officials, during which time they have to live in public quarters. eventually, they go to claim the kid on from a distant relative the kid had been shoved with while the guys got through the admin. They're still trying to sort out their feelings to one another, but the arrival of the kid (who is, by the way, as yet nameless) is like a catalyst, and we have 4 years of happiness and slashiness. Their story is told through their perspectives. They get arrested and dragged away, interrogated for a bit, then die together - I'm thinking they're hung.

[saturnial.livejournal.com]

The final story is our RHPG. SHe was originally from a city world called New Venice, built on the ruins of the cote du azure (south of france) It was a bawdy, ramshackle world which was slowly dying out. She and a friend cobbled together a boat, and set sail onto the med, but then there was a storm, and the friend got washed away. Instead of going back to the city, the RHPG realised that there wasn't anything left for her in that city, so she goes rampaging and pillaging instead, always trying to find her friend, who is dead, but she refuses to face up to the fact. She picks up a strange boy hanging around on the edges of a massive cityworld, and he 'joins her crew.' This boy is actually katie, andy and theo's son, who managaed to escape from the city world (called the sittadel, I think... ) and is just skulking around on the outside. He joins RHPG, and they talk, and he says stuff about his perspective on andy and theo, bits of the story that we didn't see - like how they were betrayed, etc. (I havent worked out how the goverment found out yet, but hey.) and the two of them swap stories, and come to terms with their own grief, and then sail off into the sunset in search of a new city world. They have a perfectly platonic relationship. I think. :P

The 3 stories aren't told chronologically - they are told all ontop of each other, flicking between them - a chapter of one, then of another, then back again... etc. Although Katies story only runs through the first 2/3 of the book, and RHPG for the lst 2/3. Andy and Theo run the entire way through.

You know the world background, I think, and that's as far as I've got. I still have major holes in my plot, but overall, I'm quite happy with it. It's worrying though, that it's really just a mix of 'Stealing Harry' (the fanfic) and Handmaids tale, with some Exodus (cool book by Julie Bertrang) and schism (awsome comic) and slash thrown in...

[hempfandango.livejournal.com]

Slash thrown in is always good. But I'm biased.

Damn that's a cool sounding plot. I definitely like the idea of a platonic relationship between the RHPG and KA&T's kid, because that's pretty rare in stories. I think the way you're telling the story would confuse me at first (but only at first, because I'd like to think I'd catch on after that) and it sounds like a real challange to write (at least to me it does. I don't know, maybe for you it's easy).

Good luck. Hopefully you'll win. ;)