ext_41457 ([identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] picowrimo2021-03-17 05:46 pm

March 2021 - Day 17

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-17 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
A few days ago I mentioned scribbling a less-than-flattering description of a character Fandom Loves But I Don't as literary therapy :) The thing is, when I read it again, I decided that the version of him I see (which to be fair isn't honestly as bad as the therapy scribble, but is a shabby-virtues/shabby-vices sort of thing) would make a pretty good character in his own right. As a necromancer. Who isn't as good as he thinks he is. And has more than a touch of pecksniffery in him as well. But looks like the good guy (okay, in a hatchet-faced and skin-the-colour-of-undercooked-porridge way, can you tell he's not my type?)

So I spent some time creating said necromancer.

{sigh} I do have several characters who would make for a lovely fantasy story if I could come up with a plot...

[identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com 2021-03-17 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh gosh, this necromancer sounds like a really good character!

Let your characters roam free in the ether for awhile, and while you imagine more about them, I'll bet you'll start getting ideas for a plot to put them in!

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-18 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
At the minute they are sitting at a table drinking the fantasy equivalent of tea and simply looking at me... which, when you think of it, is how a lot of my stories go :)

By the way, may I friend you?

[identity profile] akane42me.livejournal.com 2021-03-24 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry for the slow reply, I am finally getting caught up with comments! RL has taken over lately:)
Absolutely, you can friend me, and I will friend you!

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
If I get some inspiration, I may run it past you. At the minute, there are three characters having a faux-fantasy tea break on me :(

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2021-03-18 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe if you ask them they'll tell it to you?

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
My characters rarely actually talk about doing things. That's why most of my fanfic was always dialogues and vignettes.

Apparently part of the writing unit I am studying will be about plotting... I hope it will help.

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2021-03-21 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Darn.

Good luck then.
ext_422737: uncle hallway (Hallway)

[identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com 2021-03-18 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Agree with everyone else, what an interesting sounding character, such possibilities! Plots are hard--get him into some trouble and see what happens :)

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2021-03-19 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the fans of the original character would not be impressed, but I'm liking him.