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ladybug_archiveYou know, I decided to try Lauri Carrigan's album again and this time I liked it. ^^ I wonder if the problem before was simply that I was looking for a second Cherie Call, even though I told myself I wasn't. The songs don't seem so cheesy now, and the arrangements don't bother me as much.
And I have new ideas for Candy Clouds. ^^ I'm still trying to sort it all out, but now I have a better idea of how the ending will go and what the disaster will be. I'm also considering moving Starfire to Purple Skies. I'm not sure that it will fit in Candy Clouds.
I also did a bit more research on doppelgangers, but I came to the conclusion that I really can run with my ideas and not worry about conforming to anything. There doesn't seem to be too much information on this bizarre phenomena, and so I think I can bring in my concepts of a winged race of doppelgangers without any trouble. Look at how Tolkien changed ideas about the Elf race! (Though I'm certainly not claiming to be the next Tolkien. . . .)
Actually, doppelgangers are rather creepy. XD; It was telling how they're often seen shortly before the people's deaths. I certainly don't believe that they really exist, unless they're evil spirits taking on those forms to bring confusion and mayhem. But I like my idea of a race of the creatures that are both good and bad. The good ones are more like guardian angels, while the bad ones are like the doppelgangers that you hear about.
I'm more interested in developing that world of doppelgangers rather than writing a story about Alexander as an angel of death, I think. For one thing, keeping the doppelganger angle means that I don't have to worry about working in religion/my religious beliefs. I'm rather touchy when it comes to writing stuff directly religious, because I don't really want to write stuff that I don't believe in (such as angels of death; I believe that people are met at death's door by relatives who have died at some earlier point in time). It seems different to use supernatural concepts if you're not trying to write something directly religious.
I drew a picture of a new character over the weekend. Only Aubrie and Lisa know about him right now, and I'm quite pleased with him. He's another doppelganger, an assassin named Daniel. (When looking for characters' names, I go to the name sites, go through the lists, and invariably, the right name will jump out at me.) Daniel is not a bad person; on the contrary, he was sent by the ruler of the race, Alger, to kill the wicked doppelganger council, who are trying to set up a New World Order of Doppelgangers. They believe that doppelgangers' sole purpose is for chaos and mayhem, and they have been killing the good, kind ones. This causes them to target Alexander, of course, and so Daniel moves in with Dartz and his family, wanting to protect Alexander and to kill the council members if/when they come. He also has a past with Alexander, which Alexander does not remember because of the council wiping his memories years ago. Alexander used to follow him around and consider him to be an elder brother, so it's hard for Daniel to now watch Alexander glomping Dartz and Alister and to know that Alexander has no remembrance of their times together.
I've been considering making a letter-writing journal, as several others here have done, and to address the letters to Alister. If I do that, though, it will probably be restricted to a few close friends. Letter-writing journals are invariably more personal than the regular kind, and I don't think I want strangers reading something like that. (I wouldn't want them commenting, at any rate.)
And I have new ideas for Candy Clouds. ^^ I'm still trying to sort it all out, but now I have a better idea of how the ending will go and what the disaster will be. I'm also considering moving Starfire to Purple Skies. I'm not sure that it will fit in Candy Clouds.
I also did a bit more research on doppelgangers, but I came to the conclusion that I really can run with my ideas and not worry about conforming to anything. There doesn't seem to be too much information on this bizarre phenomena, and so I think I can bring in my concepts of a winged race of doppelgangers without any trouble. Look at how Tolkien changed ideas about the Elf race! (Though I'm certainly not claiming to be the next Tolkien. . . .)
Actually, doppelgangers are rather creepy. XD; It was telling how they're often seen shortly before the people's deaths. I certainly don't believe that they really exist, unless they're evil spirits taking on those forms to bring confusion and mayhem. But I like my idea of a race of the creatures that are both good and bad. The good ones are more like guardian angels, while the bad ones are like the doppelgangers that you hear about.
I'm more interested in developing that world of doppelgangers rather than writing a story about Alexander as an angel of death, I think. For one thing, keeping the doppelganger angle means that I don't have to worry about working in religion/my religious beliefs. I'm rather touchy when it comes to writing stuff directly religious, because I don't really want to write stuff that I don't believe in (such as angels of death; I believe that people are met at death's door by relatives who have died at some earlier point in time). It seems different to use supernatural concepts if you're not trying to write something directly religious.
I drew a picture of a new character over the weekend. Only Aubrie and Lisa know about him right now, and I'm quite pleased with him. He's another doppelganger, an assassin named Daniel. (When looking for characters' names, I go to the name sites, go through the lists, and invariably, the right name will jump out at me.) Daniel is not a bad person; on the contrary, he was sent by the ruler of the race, Alger, to kill the wicked doppelganger council, who are trying to set up a New World Order of Doppelgangers. They believe that doppelgangers' sole purpose is for chaos and mayhem, and they have been killing the good, kind ones. This causes them to target Alexander, of course, and so Daniel moves in with Dartz and his family, wanting to protect Alexander and to kill the council members if/when they come. He also has a past with Alexander, which Alexander does not remember because of the council wiping his memories years ago. Alexander used to follow him around and consider him to be an elder brother, so it's hard for Daniel to now watch Alexander glomping Dartz and Alister and to know that Alexander has no remembrance of their times together.
I've been considering making a letter-writing journal, as several others here have done, and to address the letters to Alister. If I do that, though, it will probably be restricted to a few close friends. Letter-writing journals are invariably more personal than the regular kind, and I don't think I want strangers reading something like that. (I wouldn't want them commenting, at any rate.)
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Date: 2006-01-23 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-23 02:01 pm (UTC)Wow, the doppleganger ideas sound very unique! The Daniel character kind of reminds me of Chloe, from Noir, in that he's jealous of Dartz. You know...someday you may want to twist the plot slightly and turn it into an original story, you know? ^^
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Date: 2006-01-24 01:21 am (UTC)I love my doppelgangers. ^^ And yeah, I've been pondering over how to make the doppelganger stuff original. I don't know that I'd want to tweak Dartz into an OC, though. I don't like trying to make canon characters into OCs. XD; So I may just have to eliminate his part in the thing if I try to do an original fic version.
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Date: 2006-01-24 02:09 pm (UTC)Tweaking characters I already know and like into OCs is actually the thing I like to do most. XD I take some qualities of the character that I like and build another character out of them. After a while, they take on their own life, and I love them just as much as the one's they were modeled after.
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Date: 2006-01-25 02:37 am (UTC)Well, my problem is that if I directly take the canon character and try to change a few things about him so that he becomes an OC, I end up thinking of the OC as the canon character instead and it seems strange to have someone around who is so similar and yet not the character I knew and loved to begin with. XD However, if we're just talking about taking some of the character's qualities and building new characters, that's different. I took some of Nova's qualities and Alexander came out of that. The difference was that I wasn't trying to make Nova into an OC; I was just basing an OC on some of her traits. If any of that makes sense. ^^;
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Date: 2006-01-26 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-23 04:01 pm (UTC)That Doppleganger story sounds great. >D Reminds me of the angel one I was thinking about writing, and might still write. ^^
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Date: 2006-01-23 09:23 pm (UTC)You would not believe the weird mental image I got just then of Starefire from Teen Titans running around Juno and blasting things....
And I would just like to say you're definitely like Tolkien in your ability to come up with all these new worlds. ^_^
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Date: 2006-01-24 01:15 am (UTC)XD @ Starfire image. I've ended up starting to use the Starfire song anyway. I think it'll work after all.
**pets Juno, and the doppelgangers.** I definitely enjoy coming up with such things. ^^ For Juno, I kinda borrowed names and such from various legends and mythologies around the world, and then threw in some other stuff. Kade and Sapphire, for instance, weren't originally part of the plan, so their names I came up with out of the blue. (Well, Sapphire was named after Sapphire/Safir from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. I can't remember if Kade was named after anyone.) For the doppelgangers, it all started with Nova from Magic Knight Rayearth, and then I got the idea for Alexander, and it all went from there.
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Date: 2006-01-23 11:24 pm (UTC)But of course you won't be the next Tolkien, that's me!! **throws head back in maniacal, conceited laughter in an Anderson impersonation after watching the OVA preview too many times**Oy, I should really hope I'm not met at death's door by my relatives. >__>;; **looks at the relatives that will surely die before her** Unless they're already undead . . . I have to wonder about some of them. ~.~;;
When it comes to writing about the supernatural and religion . . . hmmm . . . depends on what I'm doing I guess. It'll be increadibly interesting later on in Ghost Love Score. I got some really kewl ideas developed over the weekend. I'd had them planned in the first place, but now they're really comin' out. If it were a character, I could probably do some really out there stuff, but I'm sure even I would have my limits. Writing about it in general . . . I just tend to avoid it. ~.~;; Too many internet n00b crusaders.
Daniel is quite interesting. >3 And I loved that picture. I'd suspected something like that about his character . . . **nods**
That would certainly be interesting. Oh what the hell, why don't we all do one! **though is not sure whom she would write to** That also gives me an idea for something to do at GO . . .
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Date: 2006-01-24 02:01 am (UTC)