[Lawtan]

...If I write, will folk hate me for what I write? (More correctly, will folk I actually care about hate me?)

[trystan830]

nope, i don't hate anyone for doing NaNo.... unless it's actual hate speech designed to be hate speech.

whatcha writing anyway?

[Lawtan]

Well, it ranges. Horror. Romance. Science Fiction. Historical Fantasy. Surrealism.

(Okay, it ranges from "Science Fiction Magic School Bus Undertale" to "furry creature hopping across surreal space and time" to "Silent Hill LGBT" to "stuff inspired by Studio Ghibli" to "Medieval Animorphs" to "time-reversing cephalopod civilization")

[trystan830]

that certainly is quite a range there, Law!

my story idea this year is a timey-wimey... err.... prequel to the story i wrote in 2014. the world in which it starts out is kinda dystopian, very technology-oriented, thanks to the TechRev. my main character is the catalyst for the Retro Movement, which is all over my story from 2014.

[Lawtan]

Retro Movement?

(The School bus one is sort of where things like "Goat Man", "SHADE - the totem", "UN - the Pipeline", "MORC the dragon train", and all come from...probably will work on that one)

[trystan830]

the story from 'Yours in time, Jacks' is set in various times in the future - ranging from 2246 to 2515. there's a lot of technology, very similar to what we have today. my one character, Janie (from 2246) would rather read an actual book than an ebook. there's still CDs, records, books, notebooks and the like because my ubiquitous Retro Movement is all over the place.

sure, there's seat belts that automatically fit into place when you close the door; there's AI assistants, memo apps, and email on tablets, home 'phones' that were the tech center of the home... as my one line says: 'If the Tech Movement had their way, nothing would ever be written on paper, books would be electronic, and we’d all have little screens following us around with our daily reminders.'

but the Retro Movement is based on everything happens in 20 year cycles, so that 'everything old is new again' =)

[SparX]

Ok. I got my account made, and I'm starting on my story outline. I'm kinda excited now =3

[trystan830]

yaaay SparX!

are you SparX on the site too?

told you i'm an enabler.... XD

[SparX]

I friended you. Sparx was already taken, so it's Sparxlette

I've spend the past 4 hours working on conflicts and base outlines and random notes =3

[trystan830]

yep, i added you back.

heee.... you're already a planner. i'm a pantser - big time. i write by the seat of my pants. well, i'll plan a little bit here and then a little bit there, and i kinda know where i want it to go. like - if i decide to take a road trip out to visit you... i know i want to go west, but i haven't decided which roads to take.

[SparX]

I need to know which direction my story is going and what are my main points. The extra details will be improvised, but I like to have a fleshed out backstory to each main character, random notes about the backstory of the planet or setting, just things to keep me guided on my path.
I thought at first I would be a plantser, but I didn't quite think I fit the description.

Currently I have all my major conflicts, story goals, and a bunch of random notes finished.

The below spoil is just a random note/backstory on the setting for what I'm thinking, because I kinda wanted to put in a little Climate change agenda in there XD

-humans were run extinct by their own gains and deficiencies, leaving ruin in their wake. It took a couple thousand years, but earth had managed to heal itself somewhat, but not without damage.
The polar regions have changed to scorched cold deserts without water,the tips burnt from contact with space. The equator is a middle temperate zone. Rain forests and tropics no longer exist, as do many animals. (do more research)

[trystan830]

yep, you sound like a planner to me.

this story has a bit more of my usual planning because i need it to connect to an establised story already. i have a google doc that i pasted a lot of my references from the previous story into, so i know what i wrote then. i'm awful at remembering things like that.

[Lawtan]

...not sure that contact with space can make a cold desert. (The Gobi Desert is a Cold Desert, so how that is the case makes for good research)

I sort of learn all I can, then just write...

[SparX]

PLAN YOURSELF TRYSTAN
FALL INTO THE PLANNERS TRAP
MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

edit: I was thinking of how mars can be described as a cold desert because of its lack of atmosphere.
I also need to figure out how the atmosphere was able to repair itself on earth (besides the fact we humans aren't there...really?) I needed a few to go underground after getting radiated(and mutated) from human wars so they can mutate into my elf clans over centuries XD

[trystan830]

nope... i write by the seat of my pants! XD

[SparX]

Gotta love latin to help you come up with names XD
Plannings taking longer then I thought, but I don't want to miss important details and feel the need to have at least a variety of things to pull from >.>
I hope to start actually writing by tomorrow or sunday.