Isn't sour_idealist's story wonderful? I just love it to pieces. :-D
I think I ended up using hydrofracking because it was already near the top of my mind, because it was energy-related (and thus of interest to Saito), and because I didn't have time to think of a more glamorous job.
For a story this length, I would normally do more planning -- I would have made a list of character arc incidents or photographs to use, for example -- but since I had sour_idealist's story to refer back to, I didn't bother. I just copy-pasted the descriptions of each photograph, one to a section, like so:
1. There's a lot of pictures of Nina and Marie and Danielle [...] Ariadne's in a lot of the pictures too, and they're pretty much what they were the last time Cassandra did this, various combinations of the four of them with their arms around each other, pulling silly faces and toasting the camera, all titled with places and dates.
2. One prim-looking man in a nice vest is bent over a table, apparently arguing with a laughing guy in a hideous mustard shirt, while a curly-haired guy in glasses watches with a grin over the top of a newspaper. All of them look like they're at least thirty, and the room doesn't look anything like the pictures of the college that Ariadne sent home.
3,4,5. It's Mustard, not actually wearing the color but definitely recognizable; he's standing in front of a chalkboard, glancing over his shoulder in surprise. Probably Ariadne pulling a candid camera moment; she does that. The next picture is Prim, leaning back in a chair and trying to look disapproving; then it's Curly presenting the camera with a giant grin and a thumbs-up.
6. There's a couple more pictures of the girls after that
7. Ariadne and Prim standing arm in arm in front of an unfamiliar storefront, labeled finallyshegetshimtopose.jpg
8. Curly bent over some kind of lab equipment with a 'Kick Me' sign on his back (victoryatlast.jpg)
9. Prim and an Asian man who looks to be almost fifty, both bent over a game of chess (epicbattlecommences.jpg)
10. Prim and Mustard asleep in the back of a car, Prim's head on Mustard's shoulder (BLACKMAIL.jpg)
11. Mustard and Curly at an unfamiliar beach throwing water at each other (yeswereinthirdgrade.jpg).
12. Ariadne is wearing eye makeup, which is new, as are the neckerchiefs (which she's mentioned) and the treasure-trove of bracelets jangling on her right wrist. Cassandra wonders vaguely where she picked those up, whether they were a present from someone or a discovery in some dusty thrift shop or something else altogether. [[My theory here is that she wears the bracelets to cover the needle marks of long term PASIV use.]]
13. Returning to Paris?
And then I wrote what happened around each photograph. Some sections ended up being directly about the pictures, while others are more about points in Ariadne's character arc with the pictures basically serving as a continuity marker.
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Date: 2011-05-09 04:50 am (UTC)I think I ended up using hydrofracking because it was already near the top of my mind, because it was energy-related (and thus of interest to Saito), and because I didn't have time to think of a more glamorous job.
For a story this length, I would normally do more planning -- I would have made a list of character arc incidents or photographs to use, for example -- but since I had
1. There's a lot of pictures of Nina and Marie and Danielle [...] Ariadne's in a lot of the pictures too, and they're pretty much what they were the last time Cassandra did this, various combinations of the four of them with their arms around each other, pulling silly faces and toasting the camera, all titled with places and dates.
2. One prim-looking man in a nice vest is bent over a table, apparently arguing with a laughing guy in a hideous mustard shirt, while a curly-haired guy in glasses watches with a grin over the top of a newspaper. All of them look like they're at least thirty, and the room doesn't look anything like the pictures of the college that Ariadne sent home.
3,4,5. It's Mustard, not actually wearing the color but definitely recognizable; he's standing in front of a chalkboard, glancing over his shoulder in surprise. Probably Ariadne pulling a candid camera moment; she does that. The next picture is Prim, leaning back in a chair and trying to look disapproving; then it's Curly presenting the camera with a giant grin and a thumbs-up.
6. There's a couple more pictures of the girls after that
7. Ariadne and Prim standing arm in arm in front of an unfamiliar storefront, labeled finallyshegetshimtopose.jpg
8. Curly bent over some kind of lab equipment with a 'Kick Me' sign on his back (victoryatlast.jpg)
9. Prim and an Asian man who looks to be almost fifty, both bent over a game of chess (epicbattlecommences.jpg)
10. Prim and Mustard asleep in the back of a car, Prim's head on Mustard's shoulder (BLACKMAIL.jpg)
11. Mustard and Curly at an unfamiliar beach throwing water at each other (yeswereinthirdgrade.jpg).
12. Ariadne is wearing eye makeup, which is new, as are the neckerchiefs (which she's mentioned) and the treasure-trove of bracelets jangling on her right wrist. Cassandra wonders vaguely where she picked those up, whether they were a present from someone or a discovery in some dusty thrift shop or something else altogether. [[My theory here is that she wears the bracelets to cover the needle marks of long term PASIV use.]]
13. Returning to Paris?
And then I wrote what happened around each photograph. Some sections ended up being directly about the pictures, while others are more about points in Ariadne's character arc with the pictures basically serving as a continuity marker.