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[turps]

Thank you to everyone that commented about their hometown yesterday. I was blown away by the amount of comments, and especially enjoyed that so many people love where they live. There were some beautiful pictures posted, and interesting links to explore and really gorgeous descriptions. So if you have time, think about having a look.

We've been out doing various things today, one of which was going to see my dad. While there his finance gave me a bagful of Mills and Boons books. Why she ever got the idea I read them I don't know, but I keep them for when I have nothing to read and then read all about girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Misunderstanding occurs.Woe! Angst! Woe! Dramatic scene. Boy professes love. Boy and girl live happily ever after.

I also ended up writing on the backs of some pieces of paper when I was waiting in the car for James. Plotting out scenes and dialogue for the story that I'm working on now. It wants to be told so badly, and now I have this pile of paper with cryptic shorthand crammed on the back. While doing that I realised one of the key scenes I wanted to tell was from the POV from someone that wouldn't have any more POV scenes. Which seems like a bad thing to do. Right now the story is shared between Gerard and Ray's POVs, but originally I planned Mikey and Frank to meet on their own. So I sat and people watched, and thought, and I think I have a solution. POV, man. It's a tricky thing.

So I'm going to feed the kidlet, get some jobs done, and then write, for I have words fizzling at my finger tips.

In other news. New Apprentice tonight! Or not. It's only Tuesday...sigh.

Comments

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Okay, I totally missed that post of yours yesterday. *blinks several more times*

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

You know, those books sounds like the het equivalent of the milder sort of badfic :-)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

They really are. Every one follows the same plot, just set in different places. In a hospital, in a school. Overseas. It's story by numbers really.

Still, they're perfect bath reading. Because if they fall in it doesn't matter.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Obviously you were in an AJ daze *g*

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

I think I still am. He humped the stage at his LA show last night (here! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xawYxZwXrxQ)), and I think I've been hypnotised now.

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

I still need to do my "hometown" thing for you. Hope you won't mind if it's late.

[saffronra.livejournal.com]

I have a bizarre love of Mills and Boons novels. My Mum describes them as 'chewing gum for the mind' which I think is an excellent description.

The more ridiculous the plot, the better I love them. I picked one up in Lyndhurst that was about a US aid worker who sleeps with the king of a country (ousted by a coup, naturally) while he is in prison and hiding his identity, so that the bloodline can continue. But then they fall in love! And it's so bad that it's good.

[sperrywink]

Yay for words fizzling at your fingertips! Keep going!

You know, you can also always do an epilogue from either Mikey or Frank's POV. *wants to see them alone together OMG so much*

*g*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I am!

Ray and his team are just about to visit the Way house for the first time. The first unicorn sighting!

Man, I so want to see Mikey and Frank alone too. Like, so much. I had the whole scene worked out in my head, and it just doesn't fit the way I've been telling the story :(

[sperrywink]

OMG, so awesome! I can just imagine Frank's face when there really is a unicorn statue with money under it! Hee!

I'm sure it'll be awesome seeing them through the eyes of Gerard and Ray anyway. *Loves on Mikey/Frank*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Chewing gum for the mind really does fit.

The more ridiculous the plot, the better I love them

I totally agree. I haven't looked through the bag she gave me yet, but I'm hoping for some foreign nanny stories. They're always fun. Especially when the heroine is cast aside in a foreign land!

Okay, I had to look in the bag.

Nina in a maternity hospital. Can this be Jack's baby!?
Abigale who had a fling with Alejandro, her hot Latin lover. The fling ended badly, but now he's back!

Oh, the tag line for this one is Once they were Outback badboys. Now they're rich powerful men Ric was punished with 6 months in the outback, and now Lara is back.

She's single, successful -- and pregnant! Rowena and Quinn this time.

I'll leave it there. I'm sure you're glad *g*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't mind :)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I know! I shouldn't have such delight in my own story, but I do. The unicorn is one of the characters to me :D

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

I despise where I live, but I'm glad other people enjoy their hometowns. :) Plus, the pictures were fun!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It was nice to see how many people did love their hometowns, and you're right. The pictures were gorgeous. I really enjoyed looking at them all.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

You could perhaps write it as an outtake later, after the story's finished.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I think I may do that.

The thing with staying with the two POVs is you miss the feelings of so many of the others. That first meeting of Frank and Mikey is an important one, and while I've worked out how to move the story along without it. I want to see the part where Frank's astonished that Gerard really does have a brother, and he's not just a figment of Gerard's lonely mind.

[rikes]

Hee! It's a bit like my friend bringing me a potted plant for my housewarming party and saying, if you don't like it you can kill it! And now you can kill your books without feeling bad. :D

I'll write something about my hometowns soon.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

That's so true. Drop them in the bath, that's fine! One gets attacked by a cat. Fine!

I'll look forward to it :)

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

mills and boon make me froth with rage - although people keep recommending smart bitches trashy books to me as a blog to read... (http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/decadent_by_shayla_black/ is a pretty convincing argument, in fact)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

That's a very awesome link!

The MiL said today that I should pass the Mills and Boons on to her once I've read them. Considering I read them in times of emergency, like there's no cereal packets around to check out, I suspect I'll just give them to her.