More trope_bingo brainstorming
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osprey_archerStill brainstorming away for my trope bingo card. I was for the umpteenth time bemoaning the existence of the amnesia square, when suddenly I realized that duh, I actually already have an amnesia story I want to tell, which is the same amnesia story everyone wants to tell after read The Dark is Rising sequence. Except with a ruined castle and possibly ghosts!
Will and Bran meet again about five years after the end of Silver on the Tree. Will is excited to see Bran after all this time, but Bran, who after all has forgotten the adventures he and Will shared, is hostile. He's sick of hearing about his so-called friendship with Will, who (as far as he can recall) he barely spent any time with.
Nonetheless they are stuck together in a mostly-ruined castle for the weekend. And on their first night there, they're awakened by the sound of ghostly bells, ringing from a church that is no longer there... The Dark may be defeated, but there are still shadows left behind.
Would anyone like to beta this? I think it's going to be five chapters, and I'm thinking it will clock in around 12,000 words. But you won't have to beta the whole thing all at once. I'm almost done with the first chapter, and also with the last chapter, although not any of the chapters in between. This is a perfectly normal way to draft things.
I am also contemplating if I could use the Jane Eyre retelling I have been vaguely planning (set in Villette in 1871! The Prussians go through on the way to Paris! Jane Eyre is a photographer for a newspaper; Rochester is the editor) for the "reincarnation" square. Pluses: I would finally write the Jane Eyre retelling! Minuses: it's not actually very reincarnation-y. A quandary.
Will and Bran meet again about five years after the end of Silver on the Tree. Will is excited to see Bran after all this time, but Bran, who after all has forgotten the adventures he and Will shared, is hostile. He's sick of hearing about his so-called friendship with Will, who (as far as he can recall) he barely spent any time with.
Nonetheless they are stuck together in a mostly-ruined castle for the weekend. And on their first night there, they're awakened by the sound of ghostly bells, ringing from a church that is no longer there... The Dark may be defeated, but there are still shadows left behind.
Would anyone like to beta this? I think it's going to be five chapters, and I'm thinking it will clock in around 12,000 words. But you won't have to beta the whole thing all at once. I'm almost done with the first chapter, and also with the last chapter, although not any of the chapters in between. This is a perfectly normal way to draft things.
I am also contemplating if I could use the Jane Eyre retelling I have been vaguely planning (set in Villette in 1871! The Prussians go through on the way to Paris! Jane Eyre is a photographer for a newspaper; Rochester is the editor) for the "reincarnation" square. Pluses: I would finally write the Jane Eyre retelling! Minuses: it's not actually very reincarnation-y. A quandary.
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Date: 2014-01-13 10:32 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I'm a very good beta but if you don't get any better offers... *waggles eyebrows*
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