Well i'm writing sci-fi with giant robots
I plan on introducing many different models of robots
And suddenly I'm afraid. I have to name each one, describe them, give them armaments, pick a side for them to appear solely on, except for machine used by all sides in which case i have to identify the manufacturer and give a reason why everybody their brother aunt uncle and cousin have three in their garage, two in the driveway and one in impound
Also i have to make a minimum of 10 custom units, out of which a minimum of two will get mid season upgrades and one will get re-built and then get a mid season upgrade and one will get mass produced. Oh and by the way that one that get's mass produced will have options LOTS OF OPTIONS FOR LOTS OF FIGHTING STYLES
So in short
I wish I didn't have to be the manufacturer for something like 30 types of giant robots
Oooooh it'll be fun when i have to start referring back to older chapters/a spreadsheet to remember names and armaments
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TOP HATS WILL MAKE A COMEBACK ONE DAY!!!
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Nov 8, 2009 - 18 17
Oh man, that sucks so hard.
I'm doing a fantasy set in another world, and just when I started I realized I was going to have to come up with and establish a whole different history and culture and even language, and have mental maps of all the different countries and the cities within those countries and than name all those too, and then set up a form of government and the diplomatic situations everything else, and it just feels like way to much crap to deal with in one month. Much of it will be secretly plagiarized. (Good thing I'm never planning on trying to get this thing published.)
So I feel ya.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 18 36
I don't have giant robots but I'm writing about the United States Senate so it's kind of similar.
My MC works at a non profit advocacy organization and she's trying to get a bill passed in Congress passed despite petty political resistance. She has plenty of grassroots volunteers to help her which is good. What is bad is that I think some of them have to appear in my novel to give it heft. I hoped I could get away with writing about them from a distance but alas, I think they'll need to arrive on the scene and do some talking.
Sigh, this changes the whole timespan of my plot and means a lot of going back and adding build-up to the arrival of a bunch of new, complicated characters. Worse, it means I'll need to actually read my earlier chapters. Gah!
----------Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
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Nov 8, 2009 - 18 41
I just realized I have to kill off my favorite character so that my main character can get with the sweet doctor who may be falling for her. I may do it with a shovel, and have him have a long, Hamlet-esque death scene.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 20 21
I feel your pain.
The plot bunnies decided to inform me a couple days ago that my favourite character (and the only nice one I have) needs to die in order to move things along. I am not happy about this. But it's planned out and shall be written.
Now the bunnies want me to kill my main character. Most of my readers are my friends. They know where I live. This can't end well.
----------"You're a jackass. Just saying."
— Cass Gallagher, The Sharpest Lives
Instant nonsensical rambling!
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Nov 8, 2009 - 20 58
I get to develop a whole future. Not with robots, the world thought it was just too creepy, but the only spare bit of actual nature that is left in the world is slated to get demolished. I realize that I have to develop a history that has never happened and that makes sense with in the relatively small time span. I'm annoyed with myself for using all these colloquialisms that probably would not be used anymore and need to come up with swear words. And more characters then I'm used to dealing with
41,282 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 21 11
I have to make my main group of characters lose another fight, then I have to find an alternative plotline because there is no way one of my characters is betraying the group anymore. Then I have to fill in two more chapters where I have no idea what's going on.
I'm thinking someone has to get kidnapped, or I'm going to really have to hurt someone to move the plot to the point it needs to get to.
Also, I still need to get a new character meshed with my main group, but I have no idea how to make that happen.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 21 31
I just had an epiphany that will improve my plot, improve character motivations, trim off a few cliches that were bothering me, and just generally be a good thing.
…and now I have to rewrite everything I've done so far. I'm going to plough through to the end first (halfway there! urgh), but even though my epiphany's making me love my story more, the thought of all that work being a waste just makes me not want to write another word. Urgh. And now I'm off in a million directions trying to figure out the implications on my FMC's plotline (the epiphany's for her) when I should be thinking about my MMC, whose chapter I'm writing.
Oh yeah, and it means that the ending sucks twice as much for my FMC, and I am not looking forward to doing that to her.
----------Burly: I am Burly the troll, feared throughout the Nine Kingdoms!
Blabberwort: I am Blabberwort the troll, dreaded throughout the Nine Kingdoms!
Bluebell: And I am Bluebell the troll, terrified throughout the Nine Kingdoms!