It probably comes at no surprise that I've been working on a secret project. I'd gone back and forth on how I wanted to do this serial and in the end I decided that I was going to complete the entire story, may be 20-32 chapters and then put it out there.
I was unsure about doing it this way, but I'd decided it would be a challenge.
This project was also going to challenge me in that I had to find an image or picture to inspire each chapter. Sometimes I'd tell a chapter and look for an image . . . other times I'd find an image and make something from there.
However, I'm also aware that this project has been leaked.
This project being the following
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That's right. I decided to finally see what I could come up with as a follow up for JNRR. As I say in my drafts, I always knew what happened to the characters afterward. I always had some vague idea of how they ended up in Harper's Hollow in the epilogue of JNRR. I'd picked and prodded at two shorts that take place in this PLT world for years and I'd been hoarding a version of chapter since last year.
I'd sort of been looking for a challenge with this and now it seems my ultimate challenge is figuring out how to make it work. I'm all about plot reveals and misdirection and with it already revealed I"m not convinced the characters, romance and world building *hides* can stand alone.
I could do like I did with ABWG and declaire it DOA and share my snippets and thoughts or I could write a new story but it wouldn't be the story I've always known.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this. One of the reasons I decided to really go for it after all this time was because I found this picture online.
This girl looks just how I'd pictured a twelve year old Rose and when I saw it I knew there was something there, as the second storyline is about what happens when Clarence DeLune visits his estrange sister and her daughter for the summer, an idea I grabbed this idea from the comments and was surprised how well it worked.
In the meantime here is a sampler, (chapter one) of Pretty Little Things
I've found my groove getting back into this world, so I may carry on.
*hops in trenches*
Lile I am both excited and jealous of you. Excited to see more LL and also jealous that you get to spend so much time inhabiting these characters and imagining scenarios for them.
ReplyDelete(ahem, although I did read the title and for a hot second thought this as the Christmas story.)
DeleteWell, this did start off as Christmas Story I wrote a long long time ago. I was going to share it when I challenged you but didn't for this reason. Let's forget about that challenge why we are at it. . .
DeleteWow, was not expecting this at all ! So, in the serial Rose will go from 12 years old to 19 ?
ReplyDeleteNo. the epilogue of JNRR takes place 10 years after JNRR. Making Rose 14 in the epilogue.
DeletePLT takes place from right after JNRR to two years before the JNRR epilogue. So from age 4-11 So she will be 11 and 9 months. (It's the summer of her 12th birthday. Her Birthday is in August.)
This is mostly because I wanted her to be 11-12, so there will be a slight gap I need to fill . . .
I guess I’ll do the thing, even though I probably won’t get an answer:
ReplyDeleteWhere is Fierro ?
yeah . . . about that . . .
DeleteWhen the music got all fast in the trailer I started flailing. I feel like I need gifs to express my excitement. Gosh darn this commenting system ! excite.gif
ReplyDeleteI wish I could have shared my excitement the original way. I was debating if I should do the prologue first or the trailer. I had a feeling you might catch on to the prologue so I was going to tell you it was a new CP project hence the digital screencap.
DeleteSo, does this exist in the world of that flash fic where Clierro were visiting a dying Rose ? Or was the non-canon ?
ReplyDeleteI don't know yet.
DeleteThat first part is of the preview is s my new favorite thing. They do have some trippy middle names in that family. I know Fierro's is Micha but that still isn't a very common name.
ReplyDeleteIt's Micajah. I never though of this.
DeleteSo..Clarence...lives with them ?
ReplyDeleteClarence is living with his estranged sister for the summer. This was never going to be mentioned I was going to introduce the story this way. So. . . introduced.
DeleteDid you pick the screenshot for the trailer on purpose ? It seems very...scientific ?
ReplyDeleteYes, I did
DeleteI haven’t been this excited for a serial since NPR
ReplyDeleteOr when they brought back the cookie shaped Cookie Crisps from the 90s
Delete@NYbarista - I hope I find the excitement again ! I know my drafts are pretty illegible but my 5 second outline I was pretty. . . detailed
DeleteWait, is Lile accepting story ideas from the comments now ? Beacuse if so:
ReplyDeleteMore Tomfia fluffiness
More of Sera’s girl/girl relationships
- I'll see what I can do. I owe SH a Christmas story. Although it wouldn't be authentic Tomfia without some. . . melancholy.
Delete- I can think on this
Moar April and Cillian please. I did a Nightmare re-read recently and I really wanted more of them specifically Cillian. I liked how he was this big tough guy on the outside but was actually kind of a softie in the end.
ReplyDeleteI have nothing. . . I really don't. I've never felt this devoid before.
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