Post by Lily Munster on Oct 2, 2008 8:47:58 GMT -5
Oh, guess what?!? Ok early this morning, like 5am, I woke up suddenly... and then this story came into my head. I ran through the entire thing in my mind, kind of like a movie...and I was actually scared during more than half of it. Well, like most of it! So scared, that I didn't even want to write it when I got out of bed. I was like.. that's enough fear for today.
But I was also like wow... usually stories don't come that easily to me! I mean the beginnings or endings do, but not like.. the whole thing!
But still...it wasn't something I wanted to write for gothno - I wanted something steampunk and extremely original and so on! With maybe zombies and stuff!!So I was like meh.
But every hour that went by in the morning, everything I did, the story kept like... tugging at me.
So I eventually made outline, making sure to get everything. It was almost like recording a dream you had just before you woke up...
At first, I was like 'I don't even want to start, because it'd be hard to remember everything how it was..' so I would write a few sentences of the outline and be like there, story, are you happy!? And then go on with what I was doing... but I wouldn't be able to go on with anything until I wrote more.. until finally, I was like damn! And I finished the outline. I think I got everything in the right order, I think... it's fairly simple enough, and short enough... I remember in my sleepy haze even going "and this is where the chapter breaks..." and so on.
So now I really, really want to write it! I can't wait! I mean, this story just kinda... picked me. So... I guess that's what I'll be doing for gothnowrimo!!
I don't know how original it is, like I said, but... now I'm in love with it!! So... I can explain it a bit below, but... be warned, it's probably been done before. I also decided to finally go with the whole, formula type "these two hate each other then love each other" thing. But it works, so... meh. And it's lesbian, so... maybe it... hasn't been done before? Or I mean, I put my own twist on it, anyway.
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It's basically about this girl who is taking a tour through a castle in in modern times (in Wales or somewhere). The lights go off, and when they go aback on again, they notice the lights are lit by candles in the chandeliers and not electricity. They try not to think about it because it's unsettling. Like maybe they're like cool, they're going for... realism... all the while trying not to think that if they were candles, they couldnt' just go off and on.
Also, their tour guide is gone.
So... to make it short... they are lost, and they split into groups. The girl slowly starts to realise, and a few other people, that they are indeed back in time somehow. At first they don't want to mention it because they don't want to appear crazy...
They split off into groups, and this older blond woman that irks the girl is in her group...
Basically ~ it ends up being the girl and the older woman together, searching through the very scary castle, and slowly realising the horrifying truth, and then what time period they might be in, and what they have to do to get out... etc.
There is this whole story with this piano/harpsichord that the girl plays at the beginning. When the tour people are in the room (because they heard her playing) they're talking about it, and the brochure says it burned in a fire, so they're arguing about how oh, well this is a recreated copy, blah blah... and then as they're looking at the brochure (which was the girl's) which the blond woman just took, and as the blond woman is reading aloud about the castle and stuff, in hopes that they can find the way out, the girl goes over to the window and notices, in the rainy darkness, that the buildings that used to be over in the distance, beyond the field, simply aren't there. It scares her, and then she realises one other person noticing this. The other woman says nothing, and neither does the girl, maybe because if they say it out loud they'll either sound crazy, or.. they'll know it's true.
And stuff.
They search the castle in groups, eventually it's just the blond woman and the girl together, some people are not what they thought, etc. and they grow closer, blah, scary stuff, lots of ghosts (which they don't realise are ghosts at first)... something about this girl who the piano belonged to...stuff... yep.
It's waaaay better than I just crappily described (if you even read all that!) That was probably very incoherent - I'm sorry!!
I wrote a two page outline just now, but if I posted it it'd be way too long. Hopefully that made sense, though. I tried to make it kind of realistic.. I mean I know it's not realistic, but atleast realistic in a way that it's scary still and you're not like "yeah right!!"
So, there. I have a story! Woot!!!
But I was also like wow... usually stories don't come that easily to me! I mean the beginnings or endings do, but not like.. the whole thing!
But still...it wasn't something I wanted to write for gothno - I wanted something steampunk and extremely original and so on! With maybe zombies and stuff!!So I was like meh.
But every hour that went by in the morning, everything I did, the story kept like... tugging at me.
So I eventually made outline, making sure to get everything. It was almost like recording a dream you had just before you woke up...
At first, I was like 'I don't even want to start, because it'd be hard to remember everything how it was..' so I would write a few sentences of the outline and be like there, story, are you happy!? And then go on with what I was doing... but I wouldn't be able to go on with anything until I wrote more.. until finally, I was like damn! And I finished the outline. I think I got everything in the right order, I think... it's fairly simple enough, and short enough... I remember in my sleepy haze even going "and this is where the chapter breaks..." and so on.
So now I really, really want to write it! I can't wait! I mean, this story just kinda... picked me. So... I guess that's what I'll be doing for gothnowrimo!!
I don't know how original it is, like I said, but... now I'm in love with it!! So... I can explain it a bit below, but... be warned, it's probably been done before. I also decided to finally go with the whole, formula type "these two hate each other then love each other" thing. But it works, so... meh. And it's lesbian, so... maybe it... hasn't been done before? Or I mean, I put my own twist on it, anyway.
*************
It's basically about this girl who is taking a tour through a castle in in modern times (in Wales or somewhere). The lights go off, and when they go aback on again, they notice the lights are lit by candles in the chandeliers and not electricity. They try not to think about it because it's unsettling. Like maybe they're like cool, they're going for... realism... all the while trying not to think that if they were candles, they couldnt' just go off and on.
Also, their tour guide is gone.
So... to make it short... they are lost, and they split into groups. The girl slowly starts to realise, and a few other people, that they are indeed back in time somehow. At first they don't want to mention it because they don't want to appear crazy...
They split off into groups, and this older blond woman that irks the girl is in her group...
Basically ~ it ends up being the girl and the older woman together, searching through the very scary castle, and slowly realising the horrifying truth, and then what time period they might be in, and what they have to do to get out... etc.
There is this whole story with this piano/harpsichord that the girl plays at the beginning. When the tour people are in the room (because they heard her playing) they're talking about it, and the brochure says it burned in a fire, so they're arguing about how oh, well this is a recreated copy, blah blah... and then as they're looking at the brochure (which was the girl's) which the blond woman just took, and as the blond woman is reading aloud about the castle and stuff, in hopes that they can find the way out, the girl goes over to the window and notices, in the rainy darkness, that the buildings that used to be over in the distance, beyond the field, simply aren't there. It scares her, and then she realises one other person noticing this. The other woman says nothing, and neither does the girl, maybe because if they say it out loud they'll either sound crazy, or.. they'll know it's true.
And stuff.
They search the castle in groups, eventually it's just the blond woman and the girl together, some people are not what they thought, etc. and they grow closer, blah, scary stuff, lots of ghosts (which they don't realise are ghosts at first)... something about this girl who the piano belonged to...stuff... yep.
It's waaaay better than I just crappily described (if you even read all that!) That was probably very incoherent - I'm sorry!!
I wrote a two page outline just now, but if I posted it it'd be way too long. Hopefully that made sense, though. I tried to make it kind of realistic.. I mean I know it's not realistic, but atleast realistic in a way that it's scary still and you're not like "yeah right!!"
So, there. I have a story! Woot!!!