StarryEyed<3
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Asdfghjkl Brendon Urie. -
Even if we never finished it I think it's a nice thing to try. It's getting a bit late here for me to stay organized, so let's go back to SSR for a little. I don't want to end up awake all night with ideas.
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Perfect. :3 I'm pretty happy we've started back up.
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Gotcha! And as far as the writing style, while Im thinking on it, can we keep it very basic and narrator-ish? Typical kids story style, a few sentences a page?
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Well I'm thinking looking out the window (and this can be a point of reference later, with the whacky things outside the window in the dream world) and observing the children playing roughly when she goes outside to catch the school bus. And point taken.
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Right, but that's the point. She IS painfully introverted. Which is why I want human interaction around her for contrast. I like the idea of keeping boundaries. Because its not as pointfull (the opposite of pointless? ) if the audience is strictly confined to you and I.
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Okay, no father then. But she should have friends. Or some sort of human interaction. School we will DEFINITELY put in. We should have the hooker teacher! Maybe it's a strain for a kids book, but if the dream world reveals people's true personalities.. I mean, in real black and white world she could be strict and stuck up. It fits the pattern of what we're doing so far.
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Ah oh god yes. Perfect. So then we have EMD mother screaming at her in French. And then next. A father? More characters? Chores, responsibilities, school, what?
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Wait, do we want some character development before she comes downstairs? I'm gonna draw from personal experience here. I'm just laying down, listening to music and reading, and that's the time when I'm really myself. Then I come downstairs, and basically have my whole life and interests assaulted by family members. It infuriates me to no end. I become a version of myself, a hardened version who needs an escape.
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Maybe that could work! I like it! have we any ideas for a plot line? So she comes downstairs, and her mother. Right? More characters? We should give some more characters.
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What do you mean?
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I always pictured it starting with Mika in her attic bedroom, in her bed, asleep. And then she would wake up and go downstairs. We should try to do a plot overview first though, I think. So we know where we're taking things.
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Perfect, so we can use the dream world to reflect each character's true colors, if you will! Now we do need a solid plot, I believe.
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I remember reading a lot of Aesop's fables when I was a kid. The moral of one of his stories was Man is what he believes. yes no maybe so?
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Children's book.
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We shall write our own! I was pointing out tone. Sinister undercurrents would work well I think.
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Think. Little red riding hood, nursery rhymes like the muffin man. Things like that. Ring around the rosies, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes.. Like that. XD
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now Micah dear. This was inspired by children's books, so let's make it real! An actual moral. Structure was lacking the first time we tried so we need a lot of it now.
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Yep. So, moral. What do we want the book to say, what's something we can do with a whimsical twist?
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Dunno! Maybe we should start over a little. Come up with a basic message and plot line. Think Fairytale- Grimm Brothers, Moriarty style with a twist of Alice. It needs a moral and an execution.
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Yep. We started this out really disorganized, and the book paid the price I say we don't let those summer nights go to waste!
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I'm enamored with tumblr audio posts.
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*looks around*
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nothing. sup?
