Why do they do this?
So, my MMC needs to meet my FMC again, cos I've just realised that they parted company without exchaning any details and the only way he could get in contact with her would be through slightly scary stalky devices (and belive me, for a horror/romance, there are quite enough of those) so I have them bumping into each other. In the street.
Only, then I thought that's not reason enough to talk, because hey, the need to get to know each other. Oh, I know- she's a student and can taking some books back to the library, and he can keep her company on the way. Sorted. Only, it's during winter, so it's raining and the weather's vile, and her bag of books has just spilled over the pavement, and NOW he appears?
And, of course, he's a nice chap, so is polite and mannerly, and shares his umberella and helps her carry the books, because lugging a load of biology text books without a bag is misery. It all seems logical when I put it like that...
WTF? Could I be more Mills and Boon if I TRIED?
Anyone else getting this?
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A postmodernist delusion: I'm just a figment of my sick imagination.
1,025 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 14 15
My main character is an uncommitted suicidal on a rooftop, who's soon to make friends with the good-natured young police officer that goes up to check he's alright. Ehhhhhhhhhh.
I haven't yet decided whether that'll stop him jumping, or whether it'll be something else, or maybe nothing will stop him and the story will come to a much less fluffy ending than I'd even considered. I'll find out when I get there.
30,085 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 02
Yep.
My FMC was supposed to have a nice marriage and stable home life. Very early on it emerged that she and her husband argue. Now it turns out that he's a bit of a boring fart and she desires excitement.
Thank goodness there's no chance she's going to start lusting after my MMC. She is probably going to have a fling with one of her colleagues, who's had an unrequited crush on her for quite some time.
I rolled my eyes when I realised that.
----------I wanted a novel with no romantic plot whatsoever. Thanks, FMC.
2009: [untitled]
2008: [untitled]
39,440 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 50
My MC has short term amnesia.
I win.
7,538 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 58
My big bad starts out as a trusted lieutenant, He'll probably arrange the death of his superior in order to usurp the position of leadership.
----------Also I have an earth federation, try to get more cliche that that
TOP HATS WILL MAKE A COMEBACK ONE DAY!!!
11,460 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 18 00
I win.
-My- MMC is a tall, dark, handsome, brooding mysterious stranger who all the ladies love, with wings tattooed on his back - AND he has no memories of his past.
I think I win. =D
(However, he used to be a fanatical Islamic engineering uni student with a penchant for making bombs and was extremely skilled in Krav Maga and karate. And he was a little mummy's boy. And he was in a crazy religious group where all the different religions promised to put aside their differences for the sake of the greater good for humanity. Does that balance it out at all? =S)
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Nov 8, 2009 - 18 09
My WHOLE STORY is based on a Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot love triangle scenario.
In a modern high school. With them as, respectively, the school's golden boy, the reasonable way-too-nice way-too-sad girl and the resident troublemaker.
All three of them are currently making drunken love declarations. With gratuitous mythology references.
How much more cliche can I get?
----------Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.
70,430 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 18 33
In a modern high school. With them as, respectively, the school's golden boy, the reasonable way-too-nice way-too-sad girl and the resident troublemaker.
All three of them are currently making drunken love declarations. With gratuitous mythology references.
How much more cliche can I get?
But at the same time, that sounds awesome. :D Some cliches are a good thing, when written right (whatever 'right' is, don't ask me, I'm clueless >.>). ----------
-Kate
i'm not broke but you can see the cracks
you can make me perfect again.
when i was all messed up and i heard opera in my head
your love was a lightbulb hanging over my head.
35,529 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 18 47
Ohh, I've got a Hamlet/Ophelia thing that's trying to happen.
My MMC is probably going to fall victim to the shovel of death. This will send my FMC into a depression. However, she won't kill herself because she starts falling for the sweet doctor who comforted her when she fought my MMC back at the end of chapter 3 or 4.
50,583 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 18 49
In a modern high school. With them as, respectively, the school's golden boy, the reasonable way-too-nice way-too-sad girl and the resident troublemaker.
All three of them are currently making drunken love declarations. With gratuitous mythology references.
How much more cliche can I get?
Just remember that threesomes resolve everything.
I've got a little orphan (not really) boy going off to save the world...but to be fair, it is after he himself mucked it all up.
----------Having been called in here very many times over the past few months to answer for this or that misdemeanor, Oliver was well acquainted with the room's nuances and eccentricities – most of them fungal.
9,054 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 18 55
@Miss Tips: haha. Yeah, cliches can be fun when used in moderation, but it's still hard to keep it properly balanced.
@prismac: Threesomes do, indeed, solve everything. It's the getting there that takes more work, and while alcohol facilitates a bit, the boys are still not so keen on getting quite that close to each other.
----------Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.