FM-PMS

[akk]

current chapter word count: 5821
number of scenes unfinished again: 2
reason for that: more intensity for the plot!
character who proved immensely useful after recalling Sei's paranoia: Nokoru
character who had to show up just because I want to remind people he's not dead: Suoh
character who's phone manners are entirely better at the beginning of a call than at the end: Subaru

Strange - unrelated - observation after reading a X/Death Note x-over by mithrigil:

there are currently a lot of X/DN X-overs posted on IJ, LJ, and "the dump", which makes me wonder whether
a) ideas come in (shock)waves
b) people take their ideas from other people's ideas (viral ideas)
c) a combination of both
d) neither and it's something else.
e) I probably shouldn't mull about this right after work...

Question: If Imonoyama had a phone that allows calls to be "put on hold", what music would be playing?

Comments

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

re: X/DN crossovers, I haven't read anything on the Pit, so, just two recs from tomomichi on LJ and one german fic by novembermond that I was alerted to after I finished 6N. I can only defend myself by saying; re: UL/6N, option C with the caveat that I wrote it in reaction to other people breaking the X canon and generally not being compelling. Also, the canons of DN and X touch on several of the same themes--destiny, ambition, the state of the world and those who think they have the right to control it.

re: question. two options:

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine~

Sempre Libera from La Traviata.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

1. you don't have to defend yourself, because you did nothign wrong. I ♥ your fics. I was just surprised when I noticed how many -new- crossovers pop up since then. It creates a feeling a little bit similar like shops opening in my home town: they always come in groups. One year mattresses everywhere, the next hair stylists, then mobile phones, betting agencies, now it's photographers. Of all these shops that open in one year, only a few survive the competition, but it always made me wonder why so many shops of the same kind open in one year - and virtually none the years before (none after makes kind of sense with respect to all the shops of the topic dying from competition).
My observation has nothing to do with you; it's just that I noticed the pop-ups after reading yours. :)

2. What's the first line from and how would you describe the music in L.T.?

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

1. --after mine? Holy shit. That's interesting and weird.


2. The first: this ditty by REM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeo0_3gN190&feature=related).

The second: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amhao588wam>This video. A skippy, frantic, florid Italian thing.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Re 1.: --yes. Something similar happened with the CCDs having more than cameo appearances in X-plotlines after 36° was taking flight. Of course, that might be because I as the observer was being sensitized about their appearances. I won't rule that out. But the X/DN crossovers were really obvious; even though I don't read many crossovers, I notice when they pop up - esp. when its crossing with a universe I'm at least planning to read.

Re 2.: thank you for the links, but actually, I needed describtive words - because - frankly - I just don't know how to describe music. On the other hand, I more or less bypassed the text bit in question already, so please don't bother with it. Thank you for your effort. :)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

1: Ah. I've seen that happen in other fandoms as well. One audacious author notices something affecting, and then everyone accepts it.

2: No problem. Sorry.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

From one audacious author to another ( ;) ):
I wished 36° had sparked more stories playing with the symbolism and geometrics between the Subaru and Seishiro. I'd love reading those! :)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

...hehe. Is that a couched way of asking me to write one? Because I'll try, with your permission.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

No. Just a comment. :)

I won't stop you from writing if you have an idea - after all, ideas tend to become rabid when left to fester in the brain for too long! - but I don't know when I'll read it. Chaptre 15 is in the "hot phase" already and 16 is _very_ tightly connected this time; so I'm going to write it "in one go", without the normal free week in between.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Understood. If the idea bites, and hard, though, I'll post it and warn you to bookmark it.

I admire your scheduling of the epic. I tend to write with deadlines but not gameplans, so.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

I don't schedule it. A chapter takes as long to finish as it takes. Period. But I know how the plot flows; even if I don't know every detail yet; and I write it accordingly. After all, there are always scenes circling in my head and it's very difficult not to give in and write 16 instead of finishing 15 first, now that the facts of 15 that I need for 16 are found.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Ah. There's definitely something fundamentally different about writing an epic as opposed to the lengthy one-shots I tend to do, I get that.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Or maybe I just have a different style. ;)

Frankly, 15 includes stuff I've sketched around the time I wrote chapter 9 of 36°. So much for that. ;)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

An epic that I am co-writing with TK has this rigid, frightening outline and intermittent scenes already written though the very end. It's the sequential next chapter that of course I am having trouble with.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Sounds scary.
I have this overall plot idea and things sharpen in detail once I get near them in (story) time. When I start writing, I have a vague concept of where I want to go and place to start and details and everything develops "on the way", leading to surprises even for myself.

...for example: up until 36°-9, Subaru was (almost) a tame, vanilla-type of bedpartner. (Then he took the plot and ran with it, basically enforcing a sequel involving post-Bet-time.) *g*

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

It is. And it's huge. I should be writing chapter eleven soon, and the word Schoenberg comes to mind. A lot. so much planning. But it's experimental.

--and that is a thankful change, yes, because 36°-9 was made of lovely and wonderful things, like "life can be more interesting than death" and claw marks. Seriously, though, he feels too much to be tame.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

"Schoenberg"??? - cautious prompt.

he feels too much to be tame -- yes, but I didn't know that I got him that far to follow up on it; it's possible to feel too much and be broken down by it instead.
And Subaru has been the character I had the most problems with in the beginning; so yeah, 9 had been a surprise for me, too! :)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Arnie Schoenberg, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg) nemesis to many, idol to some, controversial figure of the music world. By invoking him in relation to the fic, I mean that it's overstructured and pretentious, more than usual even. Hehe.

I don't think you have to worry about Subaru now, that's for certain. I mean, your facility with Sei is evident, but your Subaru is just as believable.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

*g* During 36° solo described her plot-influence as "deWIMPing Subaru" (until I got a grip for him). :)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

And what a grip it is.

(coincidence that I have FM-9 open? HA.)

[akk.insanejournal.com]

FM-9's problem child was Kamui!

In the beginning he was more alien than Subaru for me.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

I think I've written Kamui all of twice, and both times in the context of being Subaru's unconscious shadow. I should possibly remedy that. There's this idea twisting around in my head about the psychology of emulation, what's conscious and chat isn't, as it relates to Subaru-->Sei and Kamui-->Subaru. But Kamui is awkward.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

I used Kamui - and the twisted, unhealthy situation with the parasitic Twin Star - to mirror Subaru's situation with Seishiro and stress how much it has changed him *and* Seishiro actually. So in a way, there was mimicking, and an expectation of being Subaru's shadow on Kamui's side.

...I'm at a point in writing the Decagram that I find it difficult to limit myself to the canon. *sigh*

The dynamics Kamui --> Subaru (and return) are actually going to be addressed later in it; I'm not sure if in this or another story. There's certainly more to play with, esp. with respect to some of the things I'm going to throw at them in the rest of FM.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Oh, of course there's mimicking and mirrored situations. It's Tokyo Babylon. Subaru's life imitates his art, and the other way around. Avalability heuristic.

So how far out of control has Decagram spiraled at this point? :;smiles::

[akk.insanejournal.com]

So how far out of control has Decagram spiraled at this point?

The overall plot is still nicely on track! But that's the plus when working with adaptable planning! Vague idea at first, specifics along the road. ;)
The details... include surprises as said before, but that's what makes writing interesting for me.

When I started, I had only 36° outlined, then Family Matters became necessary, which will need at least one sequel to deal with the Ameru and Kamui issues properly. In addition I really want to write Yue's story (though that's hardly a TBX fanfic at all, but historical orig fic (except for a young and ecstatic Tree-san, that is). And there's the plot of the thief, which might be interesting...
Right now, I kind of settled for Dekagram to involve what its name says: ten stories (of various sizes and likely not all in chronological order). However, if I find that my plot ideas don't carry for that much - or if I have to tell more than fits in 10 epics, well... *eg*

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

The story of Setsuka and the thief is sure to be an insterseting one--as does Yue, of course. I seriously look forward to whatever you're willing to give us.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Setsuka and the thief is currently considered as a subplot in a sequel, actually, so it might not become a story of its own. However, Yue's story would be a standalone fic. The historical setting is way too complicated to fit it into the limited space of side plots.