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how to say goodbye
Nickeris86:
i have two books that i am working on right now, one is an urban fantasy series, the other is a science fiction piece.
i have more done on the science fiction piece because i turned the first two chapters in as an assignment for my creative writing fiction class. it needs a lot of revision but I'll worry about that latter. i have however hit a wall in the stories progression. i know where i want the character to end up but getting him there is proving difficult.
my issue is that aliens have resiliently made peaceful contact with the nations of earth and are asking inviting everyday people to become ambassadors for earth so that the aliens can see if we are ready to deal with being part of their big intergalactic government thingy.
any way the problem i am having is that my main character is the definition of average, so that means he has a loving family on earth that he has to say good bye too, and i have no idea how to go about having him say good bye to his entire family, possibly forever, while he goes off and lives with a bunch of aliens. i have no frame of reference for that in my personal life.
basically i need some help in figuring out how to get this guy off earth and having parted ways with his family on good but sad terms. any help will be much appreciated.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on April 21, 2010, 09:20:20 PM ---... i have no idea how to go about having him say good bye to his entire family, possibly forever, while he goes off and lives with a bunch of aliens. i have no frame of reference for that in my personal life. basically i need some help in figuring out how to get this guy off earth and having parted ways with his family on good but sad terms. any help will be much appreciated.
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There are several classic sci fi works that do this, but it's better to go to an original source and this one is unfortunately an easy one. Check your area for troops being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Usually there is a large publicly announced community event for troops, families, community neighbors. Just show up with a notebook, a tape recorder, and a box of tissues. Find a quite corner of the bleachers and just be there. The emotion, the dialog, and the facts will drip from the walls and the light fixtures. If you don't get enough, I'm sure you will find people who are willing to talk about it with you in their homes after the event is over.
meh:
Dude.
You get to write a story about a wake where the person being waked is present.
You can even include all the snide cr8p people store up for years.
"You conceited putz, I've hated you since you tore my doll at age six".
"I never liked your nose".
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: meh on April 22, 2010, 09:45:55 PM ---Dude.
You get to write a story about a wake where the person being waked is present.
You can even include all the snide cr8p people store up for years.
"You conceited putz, I've hated you since you tore my doll at age six".
"I never liked your nose".
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BRILLIANT!
Nickeris86:
--- Quote from: meh on April 22, 2010, 09:45:55 PM ---Dude.
You get to write a story about a wake where the person being waked is present.
You can even include all the snide cr8p people store up for years.
"You conceited putz, I've hated you since you tore my doll at age six".
"I never liked your nose".
--- End quote ---
ummm yeah that does sound like a fun story but i am not sure what that has to do with my current dilemma?
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