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Post by morticialovescats on Jul 28, 2008 13:06:48 GMT -5
I'm not at all sure of what gothic-y story I might be writing in October....
But for some time I've been toying with the idea of doing a creepy story that uses not traditional European vampires but some Japanese/Asian traditions. Such as the gaki, or artifact spirits.
(An artifact spirit is something like a sandal or a teapot that, when it reaches the age of 100, becomes alive.)
The necessary creepy castle might be something built for a movie set which looks very un-castle-like from the back side.
And of course what I really want to do is introduce something really weird like a robot to the gothic setting.
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Post by NutmegAngel on Jul 28, 2008 13:10:56 GMT -5
Robot in movie castle set sounds like an interesting twist to me.
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Post by morticialovescats on Jul 28, 2008 15:53:53 GMT -5
The movie-set castle has been sold and used as various things, like a warehouse, and remodeled each time, so there are all sorts of strange passages, and if you get lost enough in this castle you may come out in another building altogether (like the neighborhood funeral parlor).
Also there's a creepy woods out there with lots of junked cars which is very creepy when you go through at twilight and see all the weird shadows (which turn out to be junk cars--- but who knows what's in them.) This creepy woods is based on real life--- my neighbor must have about 50 junked cars in his woodlot.
I wonder if the robot can end up being the threatened maiden in the gothic castle?
I really need to stop thinking about it because it's distracting me from the writing I should be doing this month. (I think I have to write a new outline for the novel I'm working on.... I hate outlines worse than that guy in the movie-promo hates mummies....)
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Post by Katica Locke on Jul 29, 2008 2:11:51 GMT -5
This sounds like an awesome idea! I especially like the junked cars--it's like an automobile graveyard.
(Wow, you must really hate outlines lol.)
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Post by Belladonna on Aug 5, 2008 4:15:36 GMT -5
I like the idea of a setting where you never know where you'll find yourself!
Robot-in-distress? Definitely different. Is this robot pure robot, or is has it some human qualities? I love writing characters, so I'm interested in how you'd handle a character that's non-human.
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Post by morticialovescats on Aug 5, 2008 10:28:39 GMT -5
I visualize the robot as looking like the robots in the movie I, Robot, not something that would be confused with a human being. However, the robot is not emotionless, and she (I think of her as a she) is protective of others in the story, such as a small boy who is actually an artifact spirit.
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