February 13, '16 Writers' Group Log

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February 13, '16 Writers' Group Log

Post by Ariel.of.Narnia » Wed Feb 17, 2016 4:43 am

Writer's Group opens ~

~ General writerly conversation ~

Squirrel 4248099: *rides in on armored Wyvern* Hark! for I cometh!
Sir-Edward: hail! Tis I!
Sir-Edward: It seems as though I hath arrived early! for non but me dare show their faces hence my approach!
Ariel.of.Narnia: *strolls in*
Sir-Edward: yet the device on my wrist that telleth me that the time is now! and here the leader that shall lead us forward to literary victory!
Sir-Edward: greetings! smiley-lol
Ariel.of.Narnia: *is multitasking, hang on*
narniac101: *waves to Ed and Ariel*
Sir-Edward: *waveths back*
Sir-Edward: *waits and feeds Wyvern*
narniac101: I haz puppy. Puppy iz soft. *pets puppy*
Ariel.of.Narnia: Lil is supposed to be leading today, so lets just way
Ariel.of.Narnia: *wait*
narniac101: Ahhh.
Sir-Edward: *tries to run as Wyvern tries to nibble on self's armor*
Ariel.of.Narnia: *contacts Lil*
Ariel.of.Narnia: how're you guys?
narniac101: *stares on in silence* o.o
narniac101: For the first time in forever, I can actually be present at Writers. So I think I'm doing pretty good. *bounces*
Ariel.of.Narnia: smiley
narniac101: How're /you/?
Ariel.of.Narnia: ah, alright. not much happening.
Ariel.of.Narnia: hi, Ela!
elanorelle: *wanders in*
Ariel.of.Narnia: well, until Lil shows up... does anyone have anything to share?
narniac101: *waves to Ela*
narniac101: Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
narniac101:Had a question. >.>
elanorelle: *waves to everyone* Nice to see all of you. ^-^
Ariel.of.Narnia: shoot, Nia
Sir-Edward: *gets picked up by Wyvern and carried away*
narniac101: I need a good ultimate source of evil. Like an overlord villain who needs to be destroyed...
Ariel.of.Narnia: *mounts a gryphon in pursuit of Ed*
narniac101: And I'm not sure that a pair of wizard twins quite cuts it.
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): Hullo
elanorelle: Hey Tenny.
Sir-Edward: *waves from up high*
Ariel.of.Narnia: "a good ultimate source of evil", huh?
narniac101: TENNYYYYYYYYYYYYS *pounce*
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): Hey
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): smiley
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): Oof
Ariel.of.Narnia: personally, female villains are plain scary. Just putting that out there
Ariel.of.Narnia: :P
elanorelle: Heh.
Lil: *dashes in. Trips over shoes falls*
Ariel.of.Narnia: Lil! Hi! You can take over now.
Ariel.of.Narnia: *picks up Lil*
narniac101: *waves to Lil*
narniac101: Ah. *keeps that in mind*
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): Sooo
Lil: Hello! everyone! Apologies on my tardiness.
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): I has an announcement
Sir-Edward: !!!
narniac101: *bounce* I LOVE ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): Edward you need to read the forum
Kristi: *dashes in*
Kristi: (manuscript pages fly everywhere)
narniac101: *helps Kristi pick them up*
Ariel.of.Narnia: *picks them up while Tenny makes her announcement*
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): Ariel, Lil, and I gonna start alternating leading Writer's because Lil and I are jealous of Ariel's popularity.
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): smiley-wink
Sir-Edward: lol
Kristi: Aren't we all?
Ariel.of.Narnia: O_O I'm popular?
Lil: She's gonna teach us how to be popular
Ariel.of.Narnia: :P but, yes, we did make that decision.
Ariel.of.Narnia: (sings, "very, very popular like me!"
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): So Lil is in charge tonight aaand we'll figure out who's gonna do it next week next week
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): ♫ LAAAA LAAAAA LAAA LALA LAAA YOU'LL BE POPULAR
narniac101: *ques music*
Lil: She'll show us what shoes to wear
How to fix our hair
Everything that really counts to be popular
Sir-Edward: *runs from Music-crazed Wyvern*
elanorelle: Writer's: The Musical
Lil: Yes, I'm in charge *wield rod of Iron!*
Lil: :P
Ariel.of.Narnia: Hahaha!
Lil: :P
Sir-Edward: *calms Wyvern with treat* (Wyvern treats consist of ogre bones, boar meat, and 450,000 year old barley corn baked in basil and hot pepper, and are notoriously hard to gather.)
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): *snork*
narniac101: Ed looks like he could use help with his Wyvern. o.o How long does it take to train one of those?
Sir-Edward: Too long :/
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): *screams and flees from Lil in mock terror*
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): *Flees
Lil: *whispers* (what type of bones? Tin bones? thin bones? @ Edward
Kristi: Twins could be evil...depends what they're like
Sir-Edward: I like my Wyvern though, he's just a bit...over exuberant....
narniac101: Maybe he needs a new harness.
Lil: Maybe the sister is eviler
Lil: That even creepier
Kristi: What do they do that's evil?
Kristi: What are the stakes?
Kristi: Are they putting plagues in enchanted butterflies and sending the butterflies out over the kingdom?
Kristi: Or are they stealing their schoolmates’ textbooks and tossing them down the well?
Kristi: Makes a difference
narniac101: More like oppressing the entire kingdom, stuff like that. ... the butterflies might be a nice touch. XD
Lil: PLAGUES FAMINES DISASTORS
Kristi: How do they oppress?
Lil: WAR
Kristi: How old are they? Who are their enforcers?
Kristi: Is one of them plotting to end the other?
narniac101: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
Kristi: Are BOTH of them?
narniac101: I was thinking they both keep each others backs safe, both evil... *thinks*
Kristi: Do they braid their hair in teeny rows, or just the one?
Ariel.of.Narnia: o.o
Sir-Edward: Backstabbing is always part of being a evil leader....
Kristi: Not always
Sir-Edward: Just part of the job description...
Ariel.of.Narnia: lol
narniac101: Lol
Lil: There's always "even villains have morals"
Kristi: Yes
Sir-Edward: They just chose not to listen to them...
Lil: They could be backstabbers, but keep everyone from stabbing their tin in the back
Kristi: Oh. are they Tin Twins? I didn't know metallurgy was involved
elanorelle: You could make them seem benevolent to the people, but have ulterior motives.
Lil: Ooh! I have one
Kristi: That's creepy
narniac101: It's more of the kind of villains that people are trying to overthrow, I think.
elanorelle: The best way to oppress is to make people believe they aren't oppressed.
Lil: Exactly!
Lil: Lampshading
narniac101: Maybe they started out that way? And started to not care what their subjects thought later on.
Lil: Or make them feel badly if they do speak out
narniac101: Yessssss... bad stuff happens if you rebel. *hasn't figured out /what/ yet, though*
Lil: They do say absolute power absolutely
Sir-Edward: Maybe they originally where the saviors of the people then got power-crazed and stuuuuf
narniac101: Perhapppppppppps
Sir-Edward: One enemy replaces the other and all that
Lil: *is just going to throw something out here*
narniac101: Ooh
Sir-Edward: By all means throw
Ariel.of.Narnia: That has worked quite well in the past
elanorelle: Think of all the past regimes in history and you may come up with some ideas of how that would work.
elanorelle: Oh! dinner.
elanorelle: I'll be back.
narniac101: *waves*
Sir-Edward: *waves*
Lil: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything that you have."
Sir-Edward: An interesting thought
Sir-Edward: Also true
Ariel.of.Narnia: Ditto Ed
narniac101:... ditto Ariel.
Lil: (apparently mis attributed to Jefferson)
Lil: I was thinking while we were mentioning the twins starting out nice
Lil: (please do tell us if we go on to fast, or aren't going in the direction you intended)
Lil: I do think Kristi had some good thoughts
narniac101: No, it's fine. I like all the input. *nodnodnod*
Lil: *empathizes with you because I'm still trying to find out my villain*
narniac101: smiley-razz
Lil: Me: he's just evil
narniac101: I'm not sure I'll even /keep/ the wizard twins, whatever they end up being. I just liked the idea of having dual dictatorship... ness...
Ariel.of.Narnia: You could do quite a bit with twins in power
narniac101: *bonks Lil's villain* EXPLAIN YOURSELF.
narniac101: That's what I was thinking.
Kristi: Could also me a married couple, cousins
Ariel.of.Narnia: Besides stuff like misidentification. :P
Kristi: A small bird on the back of a black rhinoceros
Ariel.of.Narnia: Which could also be useful, particularly if one has such-and-such skills, while the other has some other power
Kristi: Characters that need each other in political or magical as well as emotional ways
Lil: *nods*
narniac101: O-o-o-oooh
Ariel.of.Narnia: *nodnods*
Sir-Edward: I find A good villain is just as important as a good protagonist, an interesting villain can carry a scene in a book just as much as the main character can if not more so at times.
narniac101: What Kristi said. I approve. That would explain why they haven't managed to knock one off by then.
narniac101: Yessss, yessss. Very much so, Ed. *nods*
Ariel.of.Narnia: Do you happen to know why anyone would want to overthrow them?
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): *slips in again after dealing with stupid real life stuff*
narniac101: Probably because they're making the country and surrounding countries miserable.
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): test
Ariel.of.Narnia: Good reasons. :P
narniac101: smiley-razz
Ariel.of.Narnia: Once you figure out exactly how they're doing that and why, you'll have a better idea of why they're your "really good source of evil"
narniac101: aHa.
Lil: I suppose they could have started out good and got complacent, got comfortable
Lil: (if they're ruling?
Lil: Began to feel entitled
narniac101: Yahhhhhhs *nodnod*
Lil: I mean what do you want the source to be about
Lil: Do you have an idea of the story in your head?
narniac101: The twins aren't the main characters, I'm just trying to figure them out. Me main character is assigned to try to overthrow them, I think.
Lil: So do you want a henchman they answer to?
Lil: Or are they the big bad?
narniac101: Ahhhh...
elanorelle: (back)
narniac101: Pretty sure they're the big bad.
Ariel.of.Narnia: Do you have a story idea yet or are you just trying to set up your world?
Lil: Yeah
elanorelle: test
narniac101: Hey, Ela!
Lil: Present
elanorelle: smiley
narniac101: Well, erm. Sort of got the idea. /Sort of/. My villains were confusing me.
Lil: Can you tell us about them?
Lil: Or how you felt confused?
narniac101: As in trying to figure out what, who, and why they're there. My actual villain is just this super annoying person based on my RL arch-nemesis.
narniac101: Actual-villain dude then gets stuck going with the main character to overthrow said evil overlords, kind of messes up stuff... ehh...
narniac101: I haven't figured out much more than that <.<
Ariel.of.Narnia: So you have three villains, then?
Ariel.of.Narnia: The wizard twins and then this guy on the quest?
narniac101: Yup.
Ariel.of.Narnia: So what is it about the quest-villain that makes him villainous? And why is he so against the wizards that he goes to overthrow them with the protagonist?
narniac101: If somebody else wants to take it up, they can. I've been here an hour o.o
narniac101: Oh
Lil: *hugs*
narniac101: Because he won the competition to actually go to overthrow them, so of course he's going to take the chance.
narniac101:... actually he tied with the main character.
narniac101: So they're stuck working and plotting together even though they seriously dislike one another.
Lil: That could be pretty interesting!
Lil: smiley
Ariel.of.Narnia: Ahh!
Lil: Why do they dislike each other?
narniac101: Master Beake (mister villain :P ) has been beaten in archery competition by my main character more times than he'd like to say.
Lil: Ah!
narniac101: I’ll find more reasons later.
Ariel.of.Narnia: Okay. That's what character-developing's about, right?
narniac101: Yessss! :P
Lil: I think this could be very interesting
Lil: I think there's a lot of potential coming out of that
narniac101: I hope so!
Lil: So is there something besides the archery that makes him a villain?
narniac101: I found files on my computer today and forgot how cool the world my sister gave me is. Also I felt like writing, soooo...
narniac101: He's rather stuck up in the first place.
narniac101: Comes from a wealthy family, pretty snooty.
Lil: Ah!
Lil: Competition
Ariel.of.Narnia: *could see this turning into a bit of Tony Stark vs. Captain America too*
Lil: So he's the antagonist
narniac101: Lol
narniac101: Yup.
narniac101: Both working against the evil, yet still hating each other in the process.
narniac101: Le enemy of my enemy is my friend, so to say.
narniac101:... even though they still aren't friends.
Ariel.of.Narnia: Often the case in such scenarios
Lil: Reminds me of that one episode of season three of Robin Hood minus the weird stuff with young Robin and young guy
Lil: So why did they decide to go against these twin oppressors?
Ariel.of.Narnia: *nods at the Robin Hood ref*
narniac101: Both of them got picked out of the archery competition, thus they win and are stuck going to fight. *nodnod*
narniac101: They didn't know the competition was actually a shnooksy way of finding which people to recruit.
Lil: Can you tell us more about the competition?
Lil: Ah!
Ariel.of.Narnia: But what is it that the people feel is so terrible that the competition winner(s) must go to face the wizards?
Lil: So who actually was holding it?
narniac101: I think they were foreign people... *isn't sure*
Ariel.of.Narnia: If the wizards are a new threat, I can see a resistance, but then why just one (or in our case, two) to face the wizards?
narniac101: Ahhhhhhhhh...
Ariel.of.Narnia: On the flip side, if the wizards have been doing bad stuff for a while, why are they only acting now? Or at any rate, trying it this way this time?
narniac101: Maybe they get an army to command... nahp... erm.
narniac101: Maybe there were previous attempts with force.
narniac101: And now they're taking the sneak-route.
elanorelle: Would they have other help or is it just them?
narniac101: I think they might join forces on the way to the capital place.
narniac101: I want my main character to meet up with a little gnome-wizard (the good kind) as a sort of morality test to see if she'll help him, even if it means she'll be late to the capital.
narniac101: [insert something interestingly amazing to happen to the main character]
narniac101:.... eh
narniac101: I've been here too long
narniac101: Kristi can have the floor if she wants.
narniac101: smiley
narniac101: Or whoever. >.>
Kristi: *blinks*
Kristi: Kristi: hi
narniac101: Thanks, everybody!
narniac101: smiley-razz
Ariel.of.Narnia Hope we've helped.
narniac101: *carries off interesting ideas and dumps them where she can get them later*
narniac101: Oh yesssss
narniac101: Yesssss, Precioussss, very much.
narniac101: *steps down and goes to listen now*
Lil: Anyone else?
Lil: Any last thoughts?
Ariel.of.Narnia: Not at present
Ariel.of.Narnia: *pokes Ela, Ed, and Kristi*
Sir-Edward: Hmm?
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): *bonks chat*
Kristi: I have something to share
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): *wallops laptop*
Kristi: Not last thoughts on Nia
elanorelle: Are you asking if we have anything to share? If so, I don't currently.
Lil: Anyone else besides, our beloved Fisherdess?
elanorelle: I'm working on something, though. Probably won't finish in time.
Lil: Who wishes to share after?
Kristi: Or before
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod): Not I, unfortunately, though I planned to have something
Ariel.of.Narnia: I'm playing with a prompt, so it's up to Ed and Kristi.
Sir-Edward: Not I
Lil: Then without further ado, Fisherdess, you may take the floor
Sir-Edward: Indeed.
Kristi: OK. I finished chapter 1!
Ariel.of.Narnia: Woot!
Kristi: Did we leave off with Maicen dragging Tarse back to Tarse's house? But we haven't met the mother yet?
Ariel.of.Narnia: Nope, not read that part yet
Kristi: Ok
Tenethia Brandybuck (Mod):*nods*

Kristi shares ~
Kristi's segment has been edited out by personal request
Ariel.of.Narnia: In that case then, Writers' dismissed!

Writer's Group dismissed ~
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