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kthxbambi

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So how about some NEW RANDOM FACTS ABOUT YOUR STORY!! hooray!

1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?

2. Where do you find that you write best?

3. What class module are you relating it to?

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.

7. How many words do you have so far?

8. What kind of pace does your story have?

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?

10. What are the first three words of your story?


I'll go first!


1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?

My old friend Lyndzay

2. Where do you find that you write best?
At home, in my room alone or when my roommates are sitting around the kitchen

3. What class module are you relating it to?
Retreat from the Global

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?
Disconnected

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?
Pensive

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.
Hm...bright. Daytime lighting

7. How many words do you have so far?
3473

8. What kind of pace does your story have?
Fast in paragraphs but slow within them

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?
No, but i may in future. haha making up this totally random question gave me an idea

10. What are the first three words of your story?
[FONT=&quot]'For the purpose'[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
 

JonnoisBored

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1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?
well, ummm... actually... it was you.

2. Where do you find that you write best?

on paper

3. What class module are you relating it to?

666

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?

winfield

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?

its based in the future, where people live on pluto and the only food is pie

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.

it would be like an EXTREEEMME closeup of a molecule in a pitch black room, and then the boogie man jumps out and says blargugh!

7. How many words do you have so far?

23 and a quarter

8. What kind of pace does your story have?

it goes like weeeooop and then it slows down again and goes neeoooow

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?

shaving their skin off

10. What are the first three words of your story?

"nigga, please?" he
 

u-borat

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1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?
Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind. Brilliant book.

2. Where do you find that you write best?
When I'm under constraints. lol.

3. What class module are you relating it to?
Revenge tragedy+imaginative journeys.

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?
complex.

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?
dark and chaotic.

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.
gloomy, interspersed with pockets of lamplight. long shadows.

7. How many words do you have so far?
8100? needs cutting down.

8. What kind of pace does your story have?
varied, slow to begin, but has a pretty fastpaced climax, slows in the denouement

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?
nope.

10. What are the first three words of your story?
Relentless sleet scythed...
 

Hysterik

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1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?
So many things... but one would be Science of Sleep. Michael Gondry.

2. Where do you find that you write best?
On the computer... at 12 am. :p

3. What class module are you relating it to?
Imaginative journeys, postmodernism.

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?
Stuck.

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?
Quirky, light, but with darker undertones.

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.
Nice bright.... normal. I don't know anything about film.

7. How many words do you have so far?
2100.

8. What kind of pace does your story have?
Slow, but unfolds quickly.

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?
No.

10. What are the first three words of your story?

"What do a..."
 

maccasjunkie

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. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?
Life in general, the point in it, is there a meaning in it...
That was my starting point

2. Where do you find that you write best?
Late at night when im alone on my laptop

3. What class module are you relating it to?
A couple actually

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?
deep

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?
High-strung, edgy and dark

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.
Dark, definately

7. How many words do you have so far?
6524

8. What kind of pace does your story have?
It varies

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?
No... hmm interesting prospect though lol

10. What are the first three words of your story?
All i ever
 

Friend of Ana

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1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?

Jasper Fforde (British author, very self-aware)

2. Where do you find that you write best?

At the moment, nowhere.

3. What class module are you relating it to?

Genre.

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?

Adaptable.

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?

Eccentric, playful.

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.

It would be like Bladerunner, dark with lots of unnatural light.

7. How many words do you have so far?

4000

8. What kind of pace does your story have?

Variable.

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?

Not yet.

10. What are the first three words of your story?

The Personal Liberty
 

emo-kid-91

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so! i'm bored. let's resurrect some of these old threads.

1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?
28 Weeks Later, the film about the zombies taking over britain. booyah.

2. Where do you find that you write best?
in bed. no, for real. all snug under my covers.

3. What class module are you relating it to?
journeys and retreat from the global. a little bit of in the wild.

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?
flawed

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?
dark

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.
definitely dark

7. How many words do you have so far?
80...12? something like that.

8. What kind of pace does your story have?
fast

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?
... that would be a no.

10. What are the first three words of your story?

"In the late" [twenty teens...]
 

lucidassembly

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I love it when old threads are revived :)

1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?
Doctor Who... very, very muchly :p

2. Where do you find that you write best?
In my bedroom, with music playing and no-one else home.

3. What class module are you relating it to?
Ext 1 genre - crime fiction

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?
Detached.

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?
The genre changes mean that the tone alters slightly between each section, but it's predominantly dark, grim and pessimistic lol.

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.
Dark, maybe a spotlight, dramatic, abstract, flashing beams... all manner of seriously strange things.

7. How many words do you have so far?
It ended up being 7,557.

8. What kind of pace does your story have?
Slow build-up of tension.

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?
Definitely no lol.

10. What are the first three words of your story?

When shards of...
 

Clever Chick

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1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?
Year advisor/Advanced teacher- Ms Somerville (best god dam teacher ever!)

2. Where do you find that you write best?

Sitting in silence in my computer room

3. What class module are you relating it to?

Representations, History and Memory, Journeys

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?

I have 4 different ones- changing, regretful, motherly, cold-hearted

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?

Dark as it's nighttime and sinister things occur

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.

Light, bright day natural light then fading into memory which is dark with only the glow of flames giving light

7. How many words do you have so far?

7778

8. What kind of pace does your story have?

2 stories are reflections so a bit slower, 2 stories present so fast

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?

um no...

10. What are the first three words of your story?

Ding. Ding. Ding.
 

exarkun

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Umm before i answer questions, my story is posted up on the showcase 2008 topic, so read at will.


1. What is one thing/person etc. that inspired your major works?

An African blues band from Mali called, Tinariwen

2. Where do you find that you write best?

Sometimes on the train or one the train station waiting for a train

3. What class module are you relating it to?

Postmodernism

4. What is one word you would use to describe your main character?

Determined...clinical...headstrong

5. What is the general atmosphere of the story?

Ahh...the atmosphere kind of changes, someone to help me here.....i think i said a cold indifference a leaning towards Marquez's magic realism.

6. Look at the first scene in your story. If it were a movie, what kind of lighting would that scene have? Dark? Sepia? etc.

twilight, just morning light, orange sunrise through curtains

7. How many words do you have so far?

don't really remember

8. What kind of pace does your story have?

hopefully a consistent pace...ahh fast?

9. Do you, at any point in your story, mention someone shaving?

no i don't think so

10. What are the first three words of your story?

Thirteen minutes and...
 

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