NANO 2011

We all end up running from something at one point or another in our lives. The only difference is what we are running from. Our world is torn apart by war, the light rules it with an iron fist and kills anyone who stands against them. So we ran away, and we ran fast. We traveled across the universe to another world entirely, were we try to fit in among the humans.

The problem is that you can't run forever, and sooner or later the thing you are running from is going to find you.

The awesome idea behind my NANO this year. I don't know normally pick out themes or anything, but I was listening to Pandora and a song about running popped up and it sort of clicked and solidify the idea I already had about running away into something bigger. I'm going to attempt 3rd Person, and stick with it if it kills me. I have 4 characters somewhat planned. 2 Girls, and 2 Guys. I want more characters then that. 

I don't think they all really run away together, but some how they sort of end up in the some place by some design of fate. The story is actually going to need planning and that pretty much kills me because I hate planning things. We'll see how it goes I suppose. I am excited for it though. It's kind of like... my first bout of CAMP NANO. I was excited for my story, and it came out pretty good in the end. 

I am sticking with my theme of writing about things no one else wants to ever write about in stories. 

My first two babies that I have a concrete idea about is Jolyon and Delythi. Both are arranged to be married to the other, but neither wants the marriage to go through. They are good friends but realize it'll never be anything more.

Jolyon is a bit genderfluid, I think that is the term I want. He's biologically a boy, he's comfortable for the most part being a boy. Some days he wakes up though and just feels like a girl. 

Del.. crap. I got them mixed up. Ashtyn is the one he is in an arrange marriage with, or he was suppose to be. I might change it now. 

Well, Del is on the run from Hunters because she supposedly murder someone... high up... in the light court. Yes, Yes I am plotting this as I type this out. That is how my brain works. 

I think this other character, Keir, might be my Seer who is slowly slipping into madness. Him or Brendan. He's running away from his abilities. I'm not sure how this will work yet. I need to plot them further. 

Don't Make Me (Smile)

Don't make me smile,
It sends me into flutters,
I'm nervous when your around,
Tripping over words I knew how to say earlier,

Don't make me smile,
When you do the ice melts,
My heart starts beating,
The feelings start returning,

Don't make me smile,
Then I start to laugh,
The heart starts hurting,
I can't take my one-sided feelings,

I stand here and I beg you,
Don't make me smile.




Ya, I don't even know where this one came from. Every once in awhile I just get in this mood to write poetry and sadly it always comes off pretty sad. I can't write happy feelings, only the sad one. Obviously this is a poem that deals with a person who has one-sided feelings toward someone, and that person doesn't know it.

We'll go with the excuse that I was channeling either Ryn or Cameo, who are both the personalities who have dealt with one-sided feelings (Cameo's, to be fair, turned into something. Ryn's... was taboo).

Theme 6: Obsession

Theme 6: Obsession 

Pictures covered the wall completely, leaving no room on the wall for anything else, not even the paint could be seen. Ryn knew however that they had been a sky blue color. He had painted them himself upon Kandyl request. The younger hybrid wanted to be reminded of the sky, something he could never see again while he was enclosed behind these walls.

Ryn traced fingers along the pictures, sketches really. Kandyl had never left the room, could never have taken actual real photographs of the man himself. He was a shut in, afraid of the outside world and all it had to offer him. If he closed his eyes and concentrated for just a moment he could still almost see the image of him huddling in the corner, hands wrapped in his hair and tugging as he rocked back and forth on the floor. He was choking on apologies to a man who couldn't hear it.

He’d managed the drawing in a rare moment of lucidity. They were, Ryn noted, drawings of the same man. Element.

About the Piece: Obsession is Theme 6. I used a sort of What If? setting for the characters. A little background for the piece would be what if Kandyl never recovered from his friend Element killing himself. What if he never met Bayde and the wonders of alcohol?

The obsession is shown in all the pictures he draws of the man.