Warnings for the game: some screaming, some jump, but mostly puzzle as it goes with all Amnesia games.
Todays date: 3/21/2016
So, as I said in my last blog (Preparing for Camp National Novel Writing Month - April 2016), I was kind of going "What the flying hell am I going to do for this round?"
Well, I was talking about rewriting two of my stories, which I have decided to do after all! I decided to rewrite my rather short stories "All You Need" and my "Untitled Lex/Rose Story". I have been working on creating outlines and basic summaries for each of the stories before April comes around and I decided that I would share them now.
Let me tell you right now: I write mostly M/M stories and novels. That means I write two men having relationships of various kinds. Rarely do I write F/M pairings in my novels but most of my worlds DO have pairings of some kind.
Cause I love me some lovin' okay?
Now that I've warned you guys about that, let me talk about my novels.
Untitled Lex/Rose Story
Genre: Not sure, but mostly modern M/M Romance
Summary: He had moved into his house when he had been 4 years of age with his parents, grew up in it, learned all that he knew about gardens in the house. He had also heard of his families ties to the older families of the city, but he didn't really care about all of that.
He was much more interested in the man who was moving next door, supposedly to fix up the old house and write a novel. Or ten.
Rose was a gardener by trade, a manager at a nursery as a job, and on the odd weekend off, he played around with creating a book about how to create gardens of various levels and styles.
Lex was a lover of books, writing and editing for his career. He moved into the house because of the fact that he could get his hands on all of the materials that were connected to the house, wanting to write those stories instead of his usual mystery fare.
What neither of them were expecting was to find a connection with each other. Much less love.
Between storms that knock out power, a cat that seems to want to take over Lex's office chair when he can escape from Rose, and nosy neighbors who want to see Rose out of 'their' neighborhood, it's an interesting time for them.
I'm sure you're staring at the fact that I put the summary in a different font and color. That's mostly so I can talk about this story without you thinking that it's a part of the summary of the story.
Lex and Rose was actually a story prompted by a friend who suggested it to me one day. So I wrote it. It's never been put anyways because I knew even then that I would need to rework the entire story. And then I lost ALL of my stories (fanfiction included) to my flashdrive reformatting on me randomly.
I was far from happy about that fact you guys. I screamed in rage and then found an SD card which I'm still using mostly with 1 terabyte plug and play hard drives. Which make me happy.
Anyways, another friend found a flash drive at her place, and lo and behold! I have copies of this story plus All You Need. I think I squealed loud enough for my friend to hear me up in Washington. Considering I live in the lower part of Arizona? That was pretty loud.
So here I am, with copies of my stories that I had thought I had lost and now I can rewrite them. Nearly two years after I wrote them!
So I'm just about ready to celebrate this fact, really.
I transferred the original 11 chapters of this story to my GDoc's that I hold my shorter originals on so I can work on them anywhere as long as I can access my gdoc's and settle into bed.
I take about 6 pages of notes about the story lines and story plot and what I would need to add. I leave it alone for 3 days and start to outline it. I'm now running around 26 planned chapters for this story along with going more in-depth with the build up between them.
It might end up longer though depending on what happens as I write and rewrite this story because I want it to be the best that I can.
All You Need
Genre: Once more, romance, but with a twist.
Summary: I'm really not sure what to say about this one since it's different than what I've ever written before in regards to my originals.
All You Need was, once more, prompted by a friend to write and I did. Then lost it. Again, pissing me off.
But then I found it, transferred all 5 chapters to my short story gdoc, and started to take notes. There is just so much that needs to be rewritten and filled in that it's giving me a headache.
The main characters are "Canaris" and Brian. I'm thinking I'm going to change "Canaris'" name to something a bit easier to read and say, so I need to figure out what I'm going to do with it.
The story is about how "Canaris" has an escort Business called "All You Need". Mind you, the escorts that work for him are under strict contraction obligation to not sleep with their clients for money or for fun while they're working. All You Need provides dates, not sex as "Canaris" often says.
Brian comes in needing a date and from there he discovers that Canaris is one of the few shifting humans, the genetics of the human race mutating and changing.
It's rather interesting and the world building is being a pain in the butt, but I have no doubt that I'm going to have fun with it.
As it is, I have about 3 new chapters outlined and haven't even gotten into the main part of the story with these two. I want to build up the world properly since I'm having this odd feeling that this might end up as a series. Different pairings, same world. Probably going to call the series "All You Need" and title each book with titles that fit the story.
Like Canaris' and Brian's book would be called "Finding My Truth" since Canaris, in the world that they live in, is mostly a fetishized human since he can literally become anyone that he wants.
It's going to be different than anything that I've written and probably won't be put out until I'm a bit further into my publishing career.
But that's what I'm doing for April's Camp round this time. Here's hoping that I get this done and out of the way this time!
I've decided that my end word count for this round of camp will be 35K and I will work on these two stories.
I'm going back to working on things in preparation for this.
Hugs and loves all!
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