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Apr. 8th, 2004 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsWhat I should be doing right now. My 100 Ways story, tackling the ironing or other housework. What I'm actually doing. Plotting the prequel to Boxes...sigh.
I'm sitting writing the backgrounds for Chris, JC and Joey and keep thinking, OMG I can't write that. The problem is by its nature the prequel will be darker. In Boxes Justin and Lance had the others to look after them. In the prequel they're on their own until they meet up much later in the story.
I hinted at stuff for all three in Boxes. Joey's drinking problem was probably the most obvious. He was at rock bottom when Chris found him and he and JC looked after Joey when he went cold turkey. Isn't that going to be fun to write? :( I actually feel mean making Joey an alcoholic, it's like, it's Joey.
Chris left home when his mom took off with his sisters and step father ( and now I feel mean about Bev ) and left him alone. He left and made his way to the city, hitch hiking on the way, and eating from bins when needed. He slept really rough for a while, on benches, in a shelter etc. Then something happened that made him not trust those places again. Remember he was only in his early teens at the time and vulnerable. I'm not sure how far I can push that one, because in Boxes he's not that screwed up really.
Then JC. Leaving home to find himself and all he found was a world that didn't care and retreated into himself more and more until he found his soul mate. I sound really corny I know, but in this story they are soul mates ( lobsters! ). JC could easily fall into mental illness. His connection to the world is the people he loves, especially Chris. If that goes I think he'd go too, lost inside of himself.
Man, that story has the potential to be very bleak, but I don't want it to go too bad. Boxes was about hope, this one has to be to. Oh damn it to hell. I've just thought, I'm going to have three different time lines. Now I'm going to have to think how to tie them together. Chris' story will start well before Joey's and JC's.
Gah, why am I thinking about doing this?...*bangs head on desk*
I will not stand for this
I wanted to put this in here because I think it's important. I was never bullied at school. I had a tight group of friends and apart from the usual verbal insults I was never bothered. But a lot of people are and bullies make me feel sick. Picking on someone because you can is disgusting, whether it's at school, work, online, a hate thread, anywhere.
I'm sitting writing the backgrounds for Chris, JC and Joey and keep thinking, OMG I can't write that. The problem is by its nature the prequel will be darker. In Boxes Justin and Lance had the others to look after them. In the prequel they're on their own until they meet up much later in the story.
I hinted at stuff for all three in Boxes. Joey's drinking problem was probably the most obvious. He was at rock bottom when Chris found him and he and JC looked after Joey when he went cold turkey. Isn't that going to be fun to write? :( I actually feel mean making Joey an alcoholic, it's like, it's Joey.
Chris left home when his mom took off with his sisters and step father ( and now I feel mean about Bev ) and left him alone. He left and made his way to the city, hitch hiking on the way, and eating from bins when needed. He slept really rough for a while, on benches, in a shelter etc. Then something happened that made him not trust those places again. Remember he was only in his early teens at the time and vulnerable. I'm not sure how far I can push that one, because in Boxes he's not that screwed up really.
Then JC. Leaving home to find himself and all he found was a world that didn't care and retreated into himself more and more until he found his soul mate. I sound really corny I know, but in this story they are soul mates ( lobsters! ). JC could easily fall into mental illness. His connection to the world is the people he loves, especially Chris. If that goes I think he'd go too, lost inside of himself.
Man, that story has the potential to be very bleak, but I don't want it to go too bad. Boxes was about hope, this one has to be to. Oh damn it to hell. I've just thought, I'm going to have three different time lines. Now I'm going to have to think how to tie them together. Chris' story will start well before Joey's and JC's.
Gah, why am I thinking about doing this?...*bangs head on desk*
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I wanted to put this in here because I think it's important. I was never bullied at school. I had a tight group of friends and apart from the usual verbal insults I was never bothered. But a lot of people are and bullies make me feel sick. Picking on someone because you can is disgusting, whether it's at school, work, online, a hate thread, anywhere.
