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The Topic of the Day is: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 | |
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The writing I'm currently working on is: A fanfic for my friend A different fanfic (for a different friend) the usual; that is to say, random inspiration for tbooks, boW, boS, and more... all at once. I really need to work on the character of Tasiha. what is she? is she an all-powerful deity? or is she a human-level mage? This is what I *do* know about her: she eventually bonds with/becomes Light, the character who is somewhat of a deity to 'the people' of my story she's good at magic and is willing to try new ways; she does, in fact, sort've invent a new way of doing magic. People used to memorize words, steps, spells... she teaches them how to create with pure essence of magic, how to invent spells and make magic on the spot by reaching deep within. she sacrifices herself for the community. xD sorry, English Lit classes taking over there... basically, when she chooses to bond with Light, she takes... responsibility. for everything that goes wrong. for every moment of pain and chaos, she feels that agony of responsibility, of GUILT acting down on her, weighing on her. (pretty sucky, eh?) other than that, I know that she is: medium height, lean and muscular (done a lot of manual labor as a child), dark brown hair and golden eyes. Found wandering in the forest near the lil village when she was.... seven? five? or so. It is not known whether she is an orphan or simply abandoned. She lives with the town's priestess, Mai, until Ialio comes and recruits her for the magic school (age 13, perhaps?). She does odd jobs and helps upkeep the temple. She's energetic, serious, likes books and loves reading, loves to know, enjoys passionate involvement in life (as opposed to passive involvement), and is scapegoated by the other children of the village. so.... now what, you may ask. Well, a bunch of things happen to her. Some of them are okay. they could theoretically result from her being a strong mage. But if I want her to become semi-deity-like status, I can play those things that happen up a bit. and if I want her to be normal human with awesome powers, I could play those down a bit. the question is... which? which most pertains to the story? which fits, and makes the details work out? the details being the background between Light and Dark and the game... the whole battle thing. so we have these two THINGS playing this game, trading turns. one is light personified, the other is dark personified. one represents good, the other evil. The question is how good/evil do I want to make them? I like the idea of Dark and Light the characters being quite neutral, playing the game without prejudice, so you don't know which one is going to win and neither of them looks demonic, like Dark used to look. So the question is, what's going on with them? I used to have it so that Demosen/Dark were evil, lived in Hell, and would occasionally bust through dimensions and try to take over Kiral/ and beat Light. and it USED to be that they fought over the souls of humans, between Light and Dark.... but that makes it too deity-related. and that's what I wanted to avoid. sooooooo I forgot where I was going with this, BUT I might have it written down elsewhere. something about some way to fix what Tasiha is.... blah. I'll get back to this. later. *waves* good night |
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***Tbook1 (Time and Chaos, needs a new name, needs to be edited) ***Book of Sun (Just needs to be edited. Tis a Nano novel) ***Book of Whispers part 1 (Does not jive at all with part 2; needs to be rewritten to fit and to have less suckage) ***Book of Whispers part 2 (Needs some rehaul editing, needs some loose ends tied up, needs to fit) ***Book of Whispers part 3 (Needs to be finished... then needs to die o.o Not sure if I need a third part in the series) ***Dium's Story (Needs a point, progress, anything... needs to be integrated into Tbook1, since that is what it is a part of, mainly) ***Trio Story with Jackie and Louise (Maybe we should get together and work on this, guys) ***Demon Story (This is working out pretty good so far. I like the plot, it's a bit convoluted, and the characters are interesting) ***New Witch Story (It's only 30 pages long, dang) ***Dragon's Voices (This has SO much potential! wee!) | |
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5 Comments:
That reminds me...when do we all get to read that fan fic? tell me when you finish so you can put it on ff.net and i can review it!
Hey Kristen -
You earn my awe for having the time and spirit to write so much.
I am sorry- I seem to have stolen your link from Louise. If this is unacceptable please let me know.
-Gretchen
p.s., on the Light vs Dark issue, I support tearing down the hackneyed Light=good and Dark= evil dichotomy. I think Grey should go in there (possibly representing mortals, who are neither perfectly good nor bad?). If it's a chess game, is the game being realized through the actions of people? If so, you could do the old chessboard thing, like the powers of light and dark are playing their troops like Stratego or Chess.
Then pawns and gamepieces could flip colors unexpectedly, because people can choose to be good or bad.
And if Light and Dark are playing this vast battle game, and there's no real purpose and they're neutral about it, perhaps your heroine should be working against both of them. Anyone who plays a power game affecting the powerless without considering the effects it has on the little people is going to be evil, no matter whether they're portrayed as "light" or "dark".
That might not be the direction you're thinking of going, but it could spice the story up. Just a thought.
erm... Kristen? The new profile pic is cool and what not but you might want to stick it in paint or something and shrink it down since as is it's kind of big and making things look a little funky. Oh yeah, and UPDATE!
So there!
oh! They hatched a duckling! *cries with happiness*
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