As a break from that, I started a new story today. Mostly because I don't want to just write the magician series stories; I need a bit of a breather from that world. So I started with a boy named Jonas, and what happens to him and his dad when a boy named Qirjin moves in down the hall with his mother. It's going to be a kind-of fairy tale about lives falling apart and coming together and how monsters are always monsters. I think.
I wrote three paragraphs for it, and realized that the last two of those actually were for a story I haven't added words to in over a year. I threw them into that file, tried to shove my brain back into gear for New. Wrote a few hundred more words. Watched the first three episodes of Gilligan's Island as research. (Really.) Read up on said show, lost myself in a small maze of internets. Surfaced. Added more words.
Surfaced to find I've written, rewritten and (semi)polished 1100 words over 9 hours. On the flip side, I have backstories of three of the four major characters in my he2ad, stuff on their personalities and how some may be broken and remade over the course of the story. I have no real plot yet. I don't even know how long this is going to be. It is also not in first person present tense. Which is a nice break from that as well, I think
How it starts....
I can’t forget the first time we met.
No. Let’s start with a secret: I still try to forget him. Even
after everything, maybe because of nothing. I don’t know. I used to
know things, before I met him, his family, and everything that came from that. I don’t anymore. The
world used to be solid and it isn’t anymore. I’m writing this
down because I can’t trust myself anymore. There’s this joke,
right: “Aren’t you ever ashamed at being such a jerk?” And
then it goes: “Why should I be? I put a lot of work into being me.”
All that work fell apart when we I met him.
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