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Once again, it’s time for Camp Nanowrimo! Yaaaay! 😀
Ironic, because all the Nano events I’ve ever finished were always Camps. 😛 Anyway…
This year, from all of the novels I currently have stewing, I chose to work on Unnamed. Why am I excited? Because I’m turning as many cliches as is humanly possible on their ears! ;-D
Unnamed (working title) is the story of Gervaise (Baeltyr) Eredhen, son of the most influential Baron in the wealthy South Kingdom, and Iris, a petty thief and survivor. However, Gervaise is not your typical rebellious son. Rather, he is forced to chose between his father’s worldview, and his mother’s. Rejecting his father’s strangely twisted utopia, he embraces his mother’s more stoic philosophy. He has not yet discovered the depths of true hypocrisy, though; in the South Kingdom, politics is hypocrisy.
Iris, also, is not your typical thief. She may bear a dislike for the nobles and have a shady past, but there’s much more to her than meets the eye. All that she needs to join the rebellion is someone to follow, someone other than that half-wit, Gervaise.
Added to that, Gervaise hasn’t told Iris who he really is, a rebellion is in order, another rebellion with a motive not so altruistic is also on the move, and Gervaise is far more politically strategic than he ever realized.
(If you want an excerpt, I can always post one. 😉 ) Thanks for reading, and God Bless!
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AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ST how we will miss thee!
*winces* Sorry! I should have made Shifting Tides my camp project. Stupid Erin, why doth she not think of that before!?
This story sounds awesome! Hope Camp NaNo goes well for you! I’m doing Camp too, but I’m actually going to be working on four projects, one for each week. (My two WIP novels the first two weeks, Goldstone Wood fanfiction the third week, and miscellaneous stuff the last week.)
🙂 Thanks! I can’t wait to hear more about your story! Mine has already gained its first revision–unusual for me. I’m generally a very first-draft-perfect sort of writer. (And its fifth plot twist… -_- ;-P )
Goldstone Wood? I haven’t heard of it before. What is it? 🙂
You’re welcome, and thank you! And yeah, I’m the same way. Though I will revise if I need to.
The Tales of Goldstone Wood is one of my favorite series in the entire universe. Seriously. It’s up there with LOTR. It’s a fantasy-adventure series with a bit of a fairytale feel to it, particularly in the first book or two. You should definitely read them. They’re written by Anne Elisabeth Stengl, and the first book is called Heartless.
Exciting!
I need to write a lot today–I didn’t do ANYTHING yesterday. It was such a sucky day.
I’ll have to check it out. 😀
Oh, yes, excerpt!!!!!! 😀
I shall have to see what I can do. 🙂
Definitely an excerpt, please. I’m interested in Iris, I must admit.
So’m I… ;-P
I’ll have to post one. Some time. :-S I’ve been insanely busy yesterday and the day before.
VJ, I’m wounded. You didn’t come over to see yourself in action in a story!
Dear, oh dear. 😛
Yeah. Isn’t he mean?
*shrugs* Actually… I was more thinking that it’s rather a relief that there’s no bloodshed at the moment.
Oh, that. True. Hey, at least it’ll be at AtS so you won’t have to mop up?!
0_0 *edges nervously away from you*
You were the one to mention blood!
I meant bloodshed in a purely figurative manner…
… and I meant mopping in a purely figurative manner.
Okay… *still looks nervous*
No! Twas just there. And it was excellent! Though I should be more powerful. And have a lightsaber like Darth Maul. We’ll work on that. Really entertaining. But…I’m mean, aren’t I?
Oh, terribly mean. I based much of the dialogue on what my current favorite villain would have said in a similar situation.
….. I don’t even want to know…
😛
Okay. (It’s Murdoc in the MacGyver series, but he’s rather nicer about killing people than Darth Duke is.)
…..
I thought I said I DIDN’T want to know… 😛
I really want to watch MacGyver now. Oh, and all of my siblings and I now have new nicknames! Sprite is MacGyver, Raya is Wonder Woman, and we teased Jewel by calling her Batgirl. (Batman is so egotistical in “The Lego Movie”, it was just too good to lose. :-P) I think I might be Robin, but I’m not quite sure. 😛 At least, Jewel seems to think of me as the sidekick… *scratches head*
I don’t think you’re mean. Or the type of Sith that tries to take over the galaxy, at least not actively. Actually, I rather think that the Professor is the kind of Sith who spends his spare time writing nonsensical (if rather fun) stuff (which is awesome; I occasionally write incredibly random things too, to take off the pressure), kindly pointing out grammar errors for other people, and doesn’t actually injure anyone with the double-bladed lightsaber, and keeps on forgetting to check “global domination” off his bucket list. 😛
Nice! Now I’m honored. Together we’ll kill many Jedi.
Together? You and who else?
Not me! I’m too busy trolling Kilgarrah and reading Redwall! EULALIA!!!!
Yeh, that too.
Heh, I’ve emailed you this but it occurs to me it’s quicker to ask here: In the Eriniverse, when does Matthias Kenobi die? ‘Cause I think I can play it off an idea I’ve got.
Matthias… Right. I don’t know. I think he probably doesn’t live long after Order 66; I hadn’t really thought about it… and now I have another plot bunny. Steujan is invaded and Matthias is killed while either working with the resistance or doing relief work.
Oh, sucks. Nope, that bunny can go back in the hutch, then. What about Tanniele? (Did I even spell that right???)
Good idea. Please write it.
Heh, if the invasion comes pre-66 we could tag-team? ‘Cause mine only runs for the first, like, half page of a story.
No, feel free to write it. 🙂 But keep in mind that by the time that Order 66 came along, Matthias would have been nearly eighty years of age. Though, as Dooku will attest, some people are remarkably active years after most have given up and gone into retirement. (Remember, Hadrian, Matthias’ eldest son, was fifteen years older than Obi-Wan.)
Tanneilie (I think that was how I’ve been spelling it) is at least ten, possibly even more, years younger than Matthias (I had envisioned her as marrying rather young), and I have no idea formed as to her fate–though she would be grieving after Order 66, as would much of the family, though there would be some people who would sneer about there being a “traitor” in the family, of course; there are people who gloat about others’ misfortunes everywhere.
Hmm. May I kill him off in 20 BBY?
If I can do that I can keep Tanneilie out of it. But Obi-Wan’s going to be furious at me.
Okay. It might have an AU, but that sounds okay.
I don’t think he will. Even characters who die still hang around in the mind palace, you know… and it’s probably not what REALLY happened, if you remember Obi-Wan’s post on my blog. 😉
I’ll get onto it and flip it past you before I post.
I meant for making him act it. I hope you’re right…
Ohhhh… I see. But I don’t think he’ll be too upset–or if he is, he won’t let it affect anything he does.
Here’s hoping.
*sighs*
Gollum is being a beast. He’s invading every story I have going at the moment. Gah! *kicks Gollum* Obi-Wan, help!!!
Ink. Force-blocked cupboard. Get Jay and Rowan to tame him.
I’m trying.
But when it’s not Gollum, it’s Raya. Or this Force-forsaken flu I seem to be catching.
Thanks, Erin. That sounds about right. Though…I’d like to have a Death Star.
Rosalie…of course you and I will vanquish the Jedi together! We’ll kill Palpatine too.
Rosalie. Vanquish. Jedi. Get knotted. The Order will never die. And if it – against all remote possibility – did, I wouldn’t be implicated.
We can’t kill Palpacreep, that’s reserved for Ani. Or Dooku – ditto. Or Grievous – Obi-Wan. Or Maul – ditto. We can create endless Sith and similar crooks and kill them, though.
*pounds head against wall* What am I going to do with the two of you?! You people make me actually feel my age! 0_0 My age that is no longer the age of a minor!
Eww… that just felt… wrong. *washes her mouth out with vinegar, soap, and Listerine, sequentially*
Seriously!? I’d love to kill Palpacreep, but it’s so much more fun to pour jelly in his hair first, y’know? As to bringing down the Order… 0_0 Where are you people getting these ideas from!?! *faints*
Well the professor is older than the mountains! I’m sure, if I try hard enough, I’ll get a few Jedi to turn to the dark side, which we now call the right side.
….. *groans*
Raya just said that her crumpet is shaped like a dead guy. -_- Too much Despicable Me, you think?
I think you’re crazy. Very little you could say will change that. Unfortunately craziness has its appealing side – though not to me – as witness take Two-Face.
Erin: No, I plan to kill as few Jedi as possible – well, maybe a certain Padawan who is currently screaming abuse at Obi-Wan might meet an… accident, but on the whole I don’t agree with killing Jedi. Actually given that I only kill my own, and not many of those, I’m technically increasing the ranks.
*laughs* Yes, I think so. Did she eat it?
Yes. She was thrilled.
Rosalie: I think there’s been a misunderstanding. I didn’t say anything about killing Jedi…!
I normally can’t kill off characters, and I normally don’t…
Incidenively, Veej, did you actually say I could kill Darth Duke, or will I have to make do with doing a Murdoc on him again? I mean something that gets him out the way without necessarily killing him.
Veej…is that my name? Nice! (Krunk voice) Umm…isn’t it dreadfully wicked to want to kill me?
Yes, but Obi-Wan would agree with me that it’s all right to kill a Sith, so I’m on safe ground.
But may I? I’m nearly up to the scene where it will have to go one way or the other.
Love the nickname… Uhh…I’ve never had to make a decision weather to let myself be killed! How will I die?
0_0
If you do die, I’ll be nice and make it something new – not recycle another Sith’s demise. So no beheading (Dooku) or bisection (Maul) or bottomless laser wells (Sidious) or rivers of lava, not that they have those at Steujan (Anakin).
If I don’t kill you I’ll just toss you in the river or run you into a stampeding herd of whatever it is they have over there – must get onto Erin about that… That way you can miraculously survive. On second thoughts that’s probably better.
Well, they could have bison, but those are distinctly American. 😛 I’ve always imagined the animals of Steujan as being less heavy and much quicker and more nimble. So, think pumas for predators and gazelles for prey animals. (The farm animals are all imported, I think.)
Hmm. Thanks, I’ll see what happens.
🙂 Oh, and I suppose it wouldn’t do any harm to have an adder or two.
Perhaps. I’ve just realized we’ll have to lose Matthias to a sniper – is that okay?
Yes, it is. 🙂 Just make it sufficiently heartbreaking, please. 😉
I think I can manage that. POV Tanneilie, perhaps.
🙂
Even Obi-Wan would work, despite the distance he’s had from his family. He’s empathetic enough…
I can’t. I just can’t do it as him. I’ll break. Oh, I can try, I suppose. Run it from a few POVs and see which is best.
Ahhhh…. I see. Erirea’s probably going to hit Obi-Wan, just saying, so you might want to prepare for that…
They’re in town. She ain’t. There, prepared.
Good. 🙂
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