7 Days 7 Stories: Days Two through Six

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So, as I said in my last entry, I thought I'd share a little bit of what I've been working on this week. Without further ado:

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Monday: Gods and Politicians outline

I did not remotely finish an outline for this story, but I still figured some things out. I used KM Weiland's How to Outline Your Novel ebook to help me a little, and here is a little back cover style blurb I wrote:

Duchess Beryn of Laecia Province wants only to live a quiet life with her husband, one that hopefully soon will be punctuated by the cries of their children. But when she takes in a young girl who is a member of a persecuted religious minority, Beryn throws her settled life into complete disarray. She soon finds herself pulled into a battle between gods and politicians, a battle that pits divine will against the hardened hearts of man. As she struggles to protect her new ward and her burgeoning family, Beryn must overcome her anxieties and stand up to her half-brother, the cruel Prince Regent Lukas, once and for all.

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Tuesday: TRON/Pacific Rim crossover planning

Once again a planning day. I figured a bunch of things out, mostly pertaining to incorporating more TRON elements into the world of Pacific Rim. As follows:

So maybe Sam and Quorra try to come up with ways to make Jaegers remotely piloted. Or perhaps implement finer control of the Drift between partners, to stop RABITs before they happen, or right when the pilots fall out of alignment. It’s all highly experimental, and the money runs out by 2024, with Gottlieb Sr’s wall idea gaining traction and so on.

So how would this affect things in the movie plot? Maybe they use the experimental method for Raleigh and Mako’s Drift test in Gipsy Danger? It would offer a different perspective at least from what a basic retread of the scene would be. And I like that, so maybe that’s what we go with.

We could tie that into Newt’s disastrous kaiju drift in some way. Like he patches himself into Sam and Quorra’s fine tuned system somehow and Quorra or whoever’s down there has to deal with some severely unexpected things all at the same time. Like maybe Newt’s kaiju drift makes Quorra lose control of Mako and Raleigh’s respective RABITs and that is a whole headache for her, so she’s More Than A Little Miffed at Newt for breaking that down.

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Wednesday: Doctor Who essay - That's Hella Problematic: The Master is Evil Because He's Crazy

I can't say that I have a finished product for today, but I got a lot of thoughts down on paper, and I might need to change the title of the essay, because it sort of morphed into my general problems with RTD's portrayal of the Master, and not just the whole "he's ~~~crazy~~~" thing.

Retconning the Master's previous evil deeds not as a result of his desires for power and immortality, but as a compulsion to relieve the sound of the drums, lessens the impact of the character. Given how the drums are incorporated in "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords", one wonders if this was simply Davies' way of patching together the reason for a mechanism of his story (that is, the Archangel satellites). All in all, though, the drums just seem like a lazy way to retcon the Master's entire characterization, and furthermore serve as a weak excuse for all the ridiculous antics he gets up to in both the Series 3 finale and "The End of Time".

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Thursday: TRON AU story planning

The AU in question is based off my one-short "Safer", an AU where Kevin Flynn brings young Sam to the Grid the night of Clu's coup. When Clu attacks, Flynn sends Sam off with Tron, and from that point on is all new stuff.

They only just make it to the Portal unscathed, and just as Sam’s about to go back, Clu launches his disc at the boy, and Tron tackles him to save him—and goes to the User world with Sam.

So that’s a Trip. Tron feels utterly out of place, even more so when Sam calls Alan and he actually meets his User. From there he has to get it together, though, because they need a plan. Let us consider the steps toward an ending:

-they have to get back on the Grid but prevent Clu from leaving through the Portal
-they have to stop Clu from overtaking the whole Grid
-they have to hopefully save Flynn and get him back to Sam and the real world

We are not going for a downer ending. Get that “hopefully” shit out of here.

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Friday: rewrite of The Outpost Chapter 12

This was probably the easiest day? Chapter 12 was already drafted, but I did want to rework things for foreshadowing purposes, among other things. Here's a clip from the end of the chapter, which I particularly like:

[The Nameless] saw a program pull out their disc and ignite it. He ignited his and struggled towards them, but then he heard the buzz of the disc connecting with flesh. And then someone screamed, and the attacking programs scattered.

Blood pooled in the floor from a wound in Ed’s arm. There was a lot of it, too much to be good. Sam and Quorra were talking to him, and Quorra crouched over Ed.

The Nameless stood over Ed Dillinger, Jr., his disc gone out, his mind blank but for the enormity of his failure.

Hope you all enjoy! :D