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CHAPTER ONE “Kittens!” I said to Nichelle and immediately dropped to the floor. “Look at them!” “You touch it, you bought it,” Mrs Murray said in a dire voice. “Now hush.” Her longtime companion, Mrs O’Shea, patted me on the shoulder. “Though that one does look rather attached to you, Rocky dear.” Nichelle snorted. “If by ‘attached’ you mean ‘it’s caught in her skirt.’” “She’s so cute, look at her.” I attempted to help the little bundle of black fur detach from my skirt and riiiiiiiiip—make that little bundle of black fur and claws, oops. “She’s so freaking adorable, though!”
Another fun one. I always end up thinking of so many more things after I'm done filming, but this was a good time even though it's probably incomplete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyByXHZp4zI
So there's a very famous beat sheet by the late Blake Snyder called "Save the Cat" (also some books I have always been too cheap to buy). The idea being that if your hero saves a cat in the first scene, the audience will be invested in them for the rest of the movie. So I thought I'd, y'know, play with that a bit and see if I could come up with some less heroic cat savings. As with the last few times I've done this, I had a lot of fun. I also went longer and with fewer new
It's getting harder to come up with topics for brainstorms! I'd also hoped to do more than mainly mind maps, but this daily activity thing is not for the faint of heart. This was a good one, but I really could have done more with, uh, fewer distractions. I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO SAY. There might be a part two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TVTlYf6G2E
I'm super proud of this one, y'all. I made me a timeline. It's not super detailed because I don't have the space and haven't done all the generational maths, but it's definitely a good blueprint for how the world ended up the way it is at the beginning of the first book... ...which no, I totally don't have the courage to write, but WHATEVS, I have a timeline, yay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapJDRjW74s
Okay, second ever voiceover, this time with a real microphone and no rain. I could have gone on and on with this mind map but I ran out of space. Really love this neighborhood and the city it's part of, should seriously think about...writing some books set there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kR6bwpkmIQ
Here there be #spoilers for a book I'm actually writing! The Lucy book, Burning Bright, is in need of a mid-book mind map, and here it is. Do not recommend if you are particularly sensitive to spoilers for books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w8SlpgeKcg
Unplanned, I thought I'd totally fall on my face, but indeed I had SHIT TO WRITE ABOUT. Series brainstorm. Allowing oneself to just brainstorm the fuck out of things one may never actually write is legit good creative energy at work. Once you take off the shackles of having to, uh, I dunno, *do* a book, you can just fuck off with ideas for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvmMxH9Ejf0
So outside lighting on a bright white day of snow and rain...is nice. I mean, it's also freezing ass cold, but wow, the lighting. Did this one outside and included the actual soundtrack (sorry about the sniffling, it's damn cold). Also, yay, this city has a name and everything! I KNOW IT'S SHOCKING WHEN I BRAINSTORM SOMETHING WITH A NAME. I'm definitely going to place some shit in this city. Don't know what. Hopefully it will include a couple of queer teens who team up with a secret cabal of librarians to save the world. Maaaaaaaybe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLD8dm2HN1I
Related to the Nix brainstorm I posted a few days ago. Should I ever write that book, this dude would be a part of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDdsCQFyJnI
