I've been so on the roll this year that I haven't even had the time to update.
I've written at least 5,000 words every single day, and I already have 38,000 words. It means I only need to write 12,000 more words and I'll be finished. If everything goes according to plans I'll be finished by Tuesday. If everything goes like I hope, I'll be finished tonight. 12,000 words in one day isn't impossible.
I had the entire preplanned plot written when I had about 20,000 words, and ever since I've been throwing in complications after complications.
What has happened so far?
Isabella died, and she ended up lingering in this world, making sure everyone was doing ok. The Nomad who killed her beat up Jacob and told him to go to Edward and let him know that if he was to go after them, Edward's family would suffer.
In the end, Jacob and Edward did go after James and Victoria. Victoria was killed in a fight, and Jacob was badly injured. In order to be saved he needed to be turned into a vampire.
Jacob, Edward and James spoke for hours, and they ended up shaking hands. James now knew why Edward killed his grandgrandgrandgrandgrandson (:D) and everything was avenged.
But everything is not great, no. The Volturi are coming after Jacob, because it's against the law to turn a werewolf into a vampire. They are planning on killing him. They have also kidnapped Jasper in order to use him as a bait - yet this is something only the Volturi know so far.
Edward, Jacob and James are now sitting in a taxi, going to Volterra. What they don't know is that they're already expected, nor do they know that back in the USA things just might go wrong...
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Characters' mental health
I'm going to start posting my replies to The Character Loft's prompts here.
The Monday prompt:
Each character is a different deal, and I'm only going to go through the main ones, the most important ones, those whose personality effects the storyline the most.
Note: even though these are characters of Twilight, the interpretations are my own. I have changed things here and there, and invented new things here and there in order to make the characters complete, to explain their actions and to make the realistic. As realistic as a vampire can possibly be.
All in all, I'm borrowing the names and a few facts, the rest is by me.
First, Isabella "Bella" Swan. She isn't "screwy", really - she just doesn't have a realistic view of herself. She is overly clingy and insecure, and her sense of self is unhealthy. She doesn't value herself, and she doesn't really care about herself. It is easy for her to completely sacrifice herself for everyone she cares about, because in her eyes she is worthless.
When she has a boyfriend, the boy becomes the center of her universe. In a relationship, her entire being is based on the boy. One might say she's a completely normal teenager.
Her childhood wasn't an easy one, and that is probably where this clinging comes from. Her parents got a divorce when she was a kid, and after that she lived with her mother. The mother couldn't even take care of herself - how could she have taken care of a little girl?
Then, Edward Cullen. He is jealous, possessive and he thinks he owns his partner in every single way. He controls the partner's life, the way they express their emotions, hobbies, friends, everything. Edward's partner can't have friends Edward disapproves of.
Edward grew up in the end of the 1900th century, and he was raised to believe that the man rules the house, and the woman obeys. Problems arise when his girlfriend actually has a will of her own, being raised to be a relatively independent woman.
I do not know exactly why Edward is such a jealous and possessive person. As I write, I will look into this.
The antagonists of the story are James and Victoria, a couple. They're cruel, sanguinary and callous, yet their cruelty isn't any worse than that of beasts. They're old vampires, born "into the darkness" during the 1800th century, and they've had a lot of time to get used to killing people. They were raised into the vampyrdom by a group of very, very old vampires. That group never had any respect for human life, and that lack of respect they passed on to James and Victoria.
Jacob Black is also an important character. He is two years younger than Bella, and he is unbelievably childish and slightly narcissistic. He is kind of spoiled - he has lived alone with his father for a long time. He rarely sees his siblings, and his mother died in a car crash when he was a kid. He isn't a very social person, and it's very hard for him to make friends.
I am still in the middle of forming a real personality for Jacob for the story. I'm going to have to dig deeper and find the core of him before November.
In the beginning of my story, James kills Bella, the best friend of Jacob, the girlfriend of Edward. After that, Jacob and Edward, blinded by their grief and anger, will start a chase across the continent - with only one thing in mind.
Vengeance.
Yes, Jacob and Edward should hate each other. Yet their grief connects them in a new way, a completely new way for both of them.
The Monday prompt:
Tell us about your character's mental health. Or lack thereof. Do they consider themselves mentally healthy, or "screwy" or "crazy" in some sense? Do others consider them the same way? Have they ever been diagnosed with a mental or personality disorder? Misdiagnosed? Do they have any extreme coping mechanisms?
Each character is a different deal, and I'm only going to go through the main ones, the most important ones, those whose personality effects the storyline the most.
Note: even though these are characters of Twilight, the interpretations are my own. I have changed things here and there, and invented new things here and there in order to make the characters complete, to explain their actions and to make the realistic. As realistic as a vampire can possibly be.
All in all, I'm borrowing the names and a few facts, the rest is by me.
First, Isabella "Bella" Swan. She isn't "screwy", really - she just doesn't have a realistic view of herself. She is overly clingy and insecure, and her sense of self is unhealthy. She doesn't value herself, and she doesn't really care about herself. It is easy for her to completely sacrifice herself for everyone she cares about, because in her eyes she is worthless.
When she has a boyfriend, the boy becomes the center of her universe. In a relationship, her entire being is based on the boy. One might say she's a completely normal teenager.
Her childhood wasn't an easy one, and that is probably where this clinging comes from. Her parents got a divorce when she was a kid, and after that she lived with her mother. The mother couldn't even take care of herself - how could she have taken care of a little girl?
Then, Edward Cullen. He is jealous, possessive and he thinks he owns his partner in every single way. He controls the partner's life, the way they express their emotions, hobbies, friends, everything. Edward's partner can't have friends Edward disapproves of.
Edward grew up in the end of the 1900th century, and he was raised to believe that the man rules the house, and the woman obeys. Problems arise when his girlfriend actually has a will of her own, being raised to be a relatively independent woman.
I do not know exactly why Edward is such a jealous and possessive person. As I write, I will look into this.
The antagonists of the story are James and Victoria, a couple. They're cruel, sanguinary and callous, yet their cruelty isn't any worse than that of beasts. They're old vampires, born "into the darkness" during the 1800th century, and they've had a lot of time to get used to killing people. They were raised into the vampyrdom by a group of very, very old vampires. That group never had any respect for human life, and that lack of respect they passed on to James and Victoria.
Jacob Black is also an important character. He is two years younger than Bella, and he is unbelievably childish and slightly narcissistic. He is kind of spoiled - he has lived alone with his father for a long time. He rarely sees his siblings, and his mother died in a car crash when he was a kid. He isn't a very social person, and it's very hard for him to make friends.
I am still in the middle of forming a real personality for Jacob for the story. I'm going to have to dig deeper and find the core of him before November.
In the beginning of my story, James kills Bella, the best friend of Jacob, the girlfriend of Edward. After that, Jacob and Edward, blinded by their grief and anger, will start a chase across the continent - with only one thing in mind.
Vengeance.
Yes, Jacob and Edward should hate each other. Yet their grief connects them in a new way, a completely new way for both of them.
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