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edenfallingWrote about 500 words for NaNo -- yay fight scenes with bandits, and Totally-in-Denial!Talin.
Then I spent a couple hours laying groundwork for "The Guardian in Spite of Herself." Dude, that story is going to be so much fun to write. It's also going to take a lot of research and coordination (the characters are in different places on different missions, which are all somewhat interrelated) but if I can pull it off... whoo. I am taking shameless advantage of the Uchiha massacre and the early years of Akatsuki (they had to build the organization up somehow), and also gleefully mucking around with theories of how exactly the canon backstory fits together and how I can change it with a tweak here or there.
As for canon characters... I'm tossing Kurenai into the story, because I like her. I also really like genjutsu as a concept and she and Yukiko provide very different approaches to illusions. Kurenai is combat-oriented; Yukiko is very much not. There is a woman -- Suzume, I think? -- who does clerical work of some sort in Konoha. If anyone knows about her, please tell me details. Also, any details on Ibiki and Ebisu would be greatly appreciated, as well as the exact date for the founding of Hidden Sound. And maps. If anyone has a good map of the continent, I'd be very grateful.
(I'm going to research myself, of course, but my research consists mostly of rereading the manga to get a sense of the characters in action. If you have access to other sources of character information, please tell me. I reserve the right to blatantly contradict stuff I don't like, but I'd like to know exactly what I'm contradicting.)
Kakashi, Iruka, and Naga will be returning, as well as some new original characters, most notably Fuuma Seichi, a Leaf jounin who specializes in quiet deaths. This contrasts with Kakashi, who seems to have specialized in messier, more public deaths -- it's the difference between a blatant show of power and intimidation and the quiet chill that runs up the back of your neck because someone might be watching you, right behind you, and you'd never be able to tell... *rubs hands gleefully*
Oh, this is going to be such fun! World-building, character development, desperate searches running out of time, little kids getting into the middle of terrible situations, revenge, redemption, information and disinformation, misdirection, the way things do and don't connect... Yeah, it's going to be fun. Heck, I may even experiment with cliffhangers. :-)
I've been looking back over my stories and I haven't used cliffhangers, with the single exception of Naga's backstory. I meant to use one between the announcement of Yukiko and Akaro's fight and the actual scene in the arena, but the pacing didn't work out that way. It's a technique I'm interested in mastering. "Guardian" will also be a way for me to practice split storylines and multiple POV voices, and an experiment in tying multiple plot strands together so they -- hopefully! -- arrive at a conclusion more or less at once. I'm doing that on a lesser scale in my NaNo novel (only two POV characters, though there are many, many plot threads) and it's a definite stretch for me as a writer, something I've only really been learning to do for a year or so.
You have to keep trying new things. What's the point if you don't?
Then I spent a couple hours laying groundwork for "The Guardian in Spite of Herself." Dude, that story is going to be so much fun to write. It's also going to take a lot of research and coordination (the characters are in different places on different missions, which are all somewhat interrelated) but if I can pull it off... whoo. I am taking shameless advantage of the Uchiha massacre and the early years of Akatsuki (they had to build the organization up somehow), and also gleefully mucking around with theories of how exactly the canon backstory fits together and how I can change it with a tweak here or there.
As for canon characters... I'm tossing Kurenai into the story, because I like her. I also really like genjutsu as a concept and she and Yukiko provide very different approaches to illusions. Kurenai is combat-oriented; Yukiko is very much not. There is a woman -- Suzume, I think? -- who does clerical work of some sort in Konoha. If anyone knows about her, please tell me details. Also, any details on Ibiki and Ebisu would be greatly appreciated, as well as the exact date for the founding of Hidden Sound. And maps. If anyone has a good map of the continent, I'd be very grateful.
(I'm going to research myself, of course, but my research consists mostly of rereading the manga to get a sense of the characters in action. If you have access to other sources of character information, please tell me. I reserve the right to blatantly contradict stuff I don't like, but I'd like to know exactly what I'm contradicting.)
Kakashi, Iruka, and Naga will be returning, as well as some new original characters, most notably Fuuma Seichi, a Leaf jounin who specializes in quiet deaths. This contrasts with Kakashi, who seems to have specialized in messier, more public deaths -- it's the difference between a blatant show of power and intimidation and the quiet chill that runs up the back of your neck because someone might be watching you, right behind you, and you'd never be able to tell... *rubs hands gleefully*
Oh, this is going to be such fun! World-building, character development, desperate searches running out of time, little kids getting into the middle of terrible situations, revenge, redemption, information and disinformation, misdirection, the way things do and don't connect... Yeah, it's going to be fun. Heck, I may even experiment with cliffhangers. :-)
I've been looking back over my stories and I haven't used cliffhangers, with the single exception of Naga's backstory. I meant to use one between the announcement of Yukiko and Akaro's fight and the actual scene in the arena, but the pacing didn't work out that way. It's a technique I'm interested in mastering. "Guardian" will also be a way for me to practice split storylines and multiple POV voices, and an experiment in tying multiple plot strands together so they -- hopefully! -- arrive at a conclusion more or less at once. I'm doing that on a lesser scale in my NaNo novel (only two POV characters, though there are many, many plot threads) and it's a definite stretch for me as a writer, something I've only really been learning to do for a year or so.
You have to keep trying new things. What's the point if you don't?