It's the illusion of permanence, I think.*

[bending_sickle]

Lookit, I made thingies!











Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge

Here is a 30 day original story development challenge. It can be filled by prose or illustration or comic or even just script, whatever works for you and how you’ll be displaying the setting. Feel free to reveal as much or as little as you want.

Day 5 - The place a character sleeps.
It was cold. There was a thin breeze trailing in through the crack Chip left in the window, more so he could hear if anything came close than for ventilation. It was early June but he was still far enough north that the nights were still more spring than summer. He shifted uncomfortably - the seatbelt buckle digging into his side - and tugged the blanket further up his shoulders. He tried not to think about the stain on the upholstery.

He was lying in the back seat of his worn-out Alfa in the middle of a highway. He'd lost track of which highway, exactly. He would have to squint at his map in the morning and try to remember what kinds of turns he took. He stopped caring for a while - a few days, a week maybe - not paying any attention to where he was going or what he was doing, just keeping his foot on the accelerator and trying not to remember. Once his fuel gauge started blinking at him and his jerry cans sloshed emptily more than was wise, though, he had to drag himself back into some semblance of action.

He tilted his head back and looked up at the sky through the window. It wasn't the clearest of views - the clouds covered what the grime on the glass didn't - but there was enough moonlight that he didn't get a sense of there being nothing out there.

He clung to that idea.

Because he was sleeping in the back seat of his car in the middle of the highway in the middle of nowhere and he was alone.

Day 6 - The place a character works/goes to school/hangs out whatever.
Day 7 - A major story location.
Day 8 - A character’s parent(s) or guardian
Day 9 - A minor antagonist.
Day 10 - Your character when they were young(er)
Day 11 - What kind of people show up in the background in your world?
Day 12 - How does a character comfort themself?
Day 13 - What kind of foods are popular in the setting?
Day 14 - What is a character’s biggest regret?
Day 15 - What are a character’s bad habits?
Day 16 - What was a character’s first romantic and/or sexual encounter like?
Day 17 - What are popular sports and hobbies in your setting?
Day 18 - What would your protagonist do if they saw your antagonist on the street?
Day 19 - What would your antagonist do if they saw your protagonist on the street?
Day 20 - Demonstrate a character and their best friend and/or love interest interacting as they most commonly do.
Day 21 - What is a character’s deepest desire?
Day 22 - What animals appear in your setting?
Day 23 - A unique place in your setting.
Day 24 - Where did you draw inspiration for the setting/story from?
Day 25 - A character’s proudest moment.
Day 26 - What special talents or abilities does a character have?
Day 27 - Describe/Illustrate an average day to a character.
Day 28 - A character’s most embrassing moment.
Day 29 - Describe/illustrate an important thematic element.
Day 30 - Describe/Illustrate a major event in the setting’s history.


* Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives

Comments

[seschat.livejournal.com]

But Dean, you can't eat Gran's pie! :P

I love all these thingies you make! And people who talk at the theatre are the worst kind, yes, yes, indeed.

He tried not to think about the stain on the upholstery.

*clutches at heart* POOR DARLING :(

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

And you know why you can't eat Gran's pie, Dean? Say it with me, now: 'cause it's Gran's pie!

...Dean would've loved her pies.

\o/ I'm glad you like the thingies! I was wondering whether anyone looked at the thingies anymore and was like, "To hell with it, Imma keep makin' em."

Damn Steve gets into everything. (Even the upholstery.) :P

PS: How're things over in with you? Any news on the Studies front?