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NaNo planning!
Okay, Mom's watching CHUCK NORRIS on the Hallmark Channel, and they just aired a commercial for a
Special TV Event rom com about the stresses involved in writing an *entire novel* in only 30 days.
I just ... what?
But I did say I'd post to this filter a few days ago. And then I came down with a sudden case of Jedi nights, and didn't make the time for it.
So meanwhile, I've been waiting for NaNo to start with bated breath, and needed something to occupy me in the meanwhile. Something that involved thinking about my story, but not thinking about it *too* hard, because thinking about a story too much gives me writer's block. I know that some writers like to cast their stories with pictures of actors or random shots off the internet, but I've never really done that for two reasons. First, I find staring at bunches of pictures of actors to be *very boring*. Secondly, my imagination isn't really all that photographic. My characters don't look like actors, they're people, and like the people I know in real life, my mental images of them has more to do with emotional colorings and non-visual impressions than it does with what they are visually. But by that same token, I know I need to get better at putting the solid sensory impressions into what I write, and figuring out how those mental shapes translate into appearance (even, perhaps especially, with a story where most of the characters are psychic to some degree or another.)
So I cast them with Impressionist paintings instead. :P And post-Impressionists. And Expressionists. And Cubists, Modernists, Symbolists ... basically if it was painted between 1870 and 1970 and wasn't Realist it was fair game. (This is SF. Realism is so passé.)
Actually, these aren't even the characters: the character list was too long to code on a night when I still have homework. So instead, I have portraits of nine planets.
The labelling goes : Official Catalog Name
"Popular Name"
(Political Classification)
Any other details we can find out later.
Earth
(Hearth World)
Mordecai Ardon, To A Morning Star
Galatea
(Inner Colony)
Kasimir Malevich, Red House
Thisbe
"Sekhe-du"
(Inner Colony/
Imperial Hearth)
Max Ernst, The Whole City
Thalassa
(Inner Colony)
Arkhip Kuindzhi, Sunset
Aglaea
"Splendour"
(Inner Colony/Colonial Hearth)
Henri-Edmond Cross, River in Saint-Clare
Sib World 9
"Paradise"
(Imperial colony)
Georges Lemmen, Beach at Heist
Suntheke
"Covenant"
(Outer colony)
William Degouve, Nocturnal Effect
Kurremkarmerruk
(Outer colony)
Konstantin Korovin, In the South
AQT 9-β 5
"Queensland"
(Nonhuman domain)
Maurice Denis, Spots of Sunlight on the Terrace
These are, as of now, some of the more important planets to the story. Mind you, I don't promise to write about all of them. Or only them. And they may not actually wind up looking like they look here. Because tying myself down to a list gives me writer's block.
Special TV Event rom com about the stresses involved in writing an *entire novel* in only 30 days.
I just ... what?
But I did say I'd post to this filter a few days ago. And then I came down with a sudden case of Jedi nights, and didn't make the time for it.
So meanwhile, I've been waiting for NaNo to start with bated breath, and needed something to occupy me in the meanwhile. Something that involved thinking about my story, but not thinking about it *too* hard, because thinking about a story too much gives me writer's block. I know that some writers like to cast their stories with pictures of actors or random shots off the internet, but I've never really done that for two reasons. First, I find staring at bunches of pictures of actors to be *very boring*. Secondly, my imagination isn't really all that photographic. My characters don't look like actors, they're people, and like the people I know in real life, my mental images of them has more to do with emotional colorings and non-visual impressions than it does with what they are visually. But by that same token, I know I need to get better at putting the solid sensory impressions into what I write, and figuring out how those mental shapes translate into appearance (even, perhaps especially, with a story where most of the characters are psychic to some degree or another.)
So I cast them with Impressionist paintings instead. :P And post-Impressionists. And Expressionists. And Cubists, Modernists, Symbolists ... basically if it was painted between 1870 and 1970 and wasn't Realist it was fair game. (This is SF. Realism is so passé.)
Actually, these aren't even the characters: the character list was too long to code on a night when I still have homework. So instead, I have portraits of nine planets.
The labelling goes : Official Catalog Name
"Popular Name"
(Political Classification)
Any other details we can find out later.
Earth
(Hearth World)
Mordecai Ardon, To A Morning Star
Galatea
(Inner Colony)
Kasimir Malevich, Red House
Thisbe
"Sekhe-du"
(Inner Colony/
Imperial Hearth)
Max Ernst, The Whole City
Thalassa
(Inner Colony)
Arkhip Kuindzhi, Sunset
Aglaea
"Splendour"
(Inner Colony/Colonial Hearth)
Henri-Edmond Cross, River in Saint-Clare
Sib World 9
"Paradise"
(Imperial colony)
Georges Lemmen, Beach at Heist
Suntheke
"Covenant"
(Outer colony)
William Degouve, Nocturnal Effect
Kurremkarmerruk
(Outer colony)
Konstantin Korovin, In the South
AQT 9-β 5
"Queensland"
(Nonhuman domain)
Maurice Denis, Spots of Sunlight on the Terrace
These are, as of now, some of the more important planets to the story. Mind you, I don't promise to write about all of them. Or only them. And they may not actually wind up looking like they look here. Because tying myself down to a list gives me writer's block.
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What?
And "jedi nights," eh?