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Need help!!!!! having a bit of a Writer's block problem!
« on: June 14, 2010, 02:24:41 PM »
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Post one.



Hello uh.

i... am The Grinning Psychopath.

and i am fourteen! i live with my dad, who is a truck driver. and i help him out regularly with his work.

 For the past couple of years, i have been attempting to write up a series. about  a young red haired, Irish woman, Karrin. and her; blond; dead; also Irish half brother, TC. who was born in the sixteen century, and was killed in the seventeenth, (though he still only looks about twenty five)

both are wizards who come from two powerful bloodlines, Condreus & Kreel. two of thirteen ancient bloodlines.


Karrin, is a woman, with a strong sense of morality, and to all outward appearance, is a hardassed, jaded, young woman. in truth she is really quite emotional, and really cares about people, and family, and her love life. She is a Guardian of the High council of wizards, against the necromancers, Strigoi  (A special particularly strong, hard to kill, fast spreading breed of Vampire) and the forces of the Netherworld. and she is stationed throughout most of the series, in San Fransisco. where TC, often aids her, by calling up the spirit of the Emperor.

TC, on the other hand, almost the opposite. he's extremely cynical, and is genuinely somewhat jaded, he's also quite the ladies man, and while he was alive he indulged in a great many different kinds of substances, and his view of what is right and wrong, is somewhat hazy. unless the crime is against a child, or his family.  and as far as he's concerned the Council, can go and hang itself, (This may be because the council. were the ones who killed him in the first place.)





TC helps, his sister. through a multitude of situations.

including demons, parallel universe's, evil versions of themselves from parallel universe's, undead, necromancers, Warlocks, Hellish deities, as well as heavenly ones.

TC is eventually brought back to life. due to a deal he makes, with Satan himself. so that he can save his sister, from a dangerous situation.

TC lives with his sister, for about five, or six books. but is eventually forced, to leave. due to some steadily growing emotions, towards his sister, that are... less than brotherly, and because of it his judgment is clouded, and he makes a few deals he shouldn't have, and tries to kill this holy warrior of god, who doesn't age.

and because of these decisions made by him, Karrin  decides he can't live with her anymore, so he moves to Canada, where he joins the police's special investigations unit, which contains several other wizards, and some warlocks as well.


and so new series there.

an insanely long one in fact. i'm thinking, Karrin's series, would go on, for about 22 books, or so. and TC's series, would go on, for about 30, plus an extra smaller series, about 8 books long.

Throughout most of TC's series he is a drug addict, and that gets him into trouble on multiple occasions, with both the police, and the High Council. what gets him into even more trouble with the council, is that he practices a forbidden form of magic, known as Arcane magic.


TC is kinda the point, you see. i've been trying, to get to him. i thought of him first, he was inspired, by several hours, of sleeplessness, a whole bunch of House episodes, and a good friend of mine, who passed away.



Ive been trying hard to write this series, but i've just been able to write up clips, and stuff of the story, character profiles, Race profiles, that sort of thing, and i got a pretty good idea how the series, about TC is gonna end. least the first one.

and my ability to write, mostly just seems to come out when i'm listening, to music i like. such as Cruxshadows, Within Temptation, & Three Days Grace.



Post two



uh likeable traits of TC, least to me anyway.

he's supposed to be charismatic, and quite in love with life. and his moral compass while it may not be up to Dresden's standards, isn't quite so far down that he can be called a bad guy. oh sure i fully intend for him to be, a liar, a thief, a traitor even. but he does care about family, and even whether or not he's going to die without people to mourn his passing, and whether or not he's ever gonna be truly happy, he doesn't think he deserves anyone to mourn his passing, and over the series, he's due to commence battle with his favorite Vice Oxycodone, which could be easily ended at any time, if only Karrin, or another woman who is quite a bit like Karrin, except she's blond. would risk a relationship with him.


and Karrin, well i like her too, but so far all i can concentrate on is TC, its one of the things holding me up.


she is strong, stronger than she even knows in fact, like i said she comes from two powerful bloodlines, as does her brother. Condreus, and Kreel. Kreel is supposed to be among the most powerful, but also among the most corrupt. where as Condreus as well as being powerful, is also supposed to be among the wisest, and the name carries a lot of weight around in the supernatural world, Kreel does too of course, but not usually a good name.


she's so strong in fact, that TC actually erases some of her memories, in order to keep temptation, from the power she's inherited, from overcoming her, and turning her over.



so he won't need to go and save her all the time, in fact in the parallel universe thing, she actually has to come save him! same thing happens when the death of a girlfriend of his, causes him to lose control of his addiction to Oxycodone, and his favorite alcoholic beverage Tequila, she pushes him to go into rehab.


which works for a while, till some particularly bad stuff goes down. Causing him to decided that Synthetic Happiness, while it may be a poor substitute for true happiness, is better than no happiness at all.

oh damn, there i go again, ranting on about TC again, when i should be concentrating on Karrin. *Sigh*

Anyway, Karrin has stuff of her own to go through. such as whether or not to see how a relationship with TC would work out.

How to prevent the Necromancers and Strigoi from forging an Alliance, to destroy the High Council. how to purge the Virus that runs through the veins of the Strigoi. how to prevent a seriously baddass force from breaking through from the Netherworld, and into ours.


then of course there's her love life.

She does love TC, mostly in the normal way a sister does a brother, especially one who's looked after her, in the place of her father, and has taught her most of everything she knows.  but there is a part of her, that Reciprocates his feelings for her.


plus there's that Holy immortal guy i mentioned before, then there's going to be a few more men, One Warlock, one Vampire, and one hispanic Wizard who's the mirror image of TC, in that he's a byronic Hero in almost everyway with many many vices.



Post three.




one description i guess of what TC, and Karrin are supposed to do is this.

Karrin is the one who is to save the world, and its people. from complete and utter destruction. and the more she does, the more it costs her parts of her social life, and other parts of her life.

TC is the one who saves the world and its people from corruption, and acts of self destruction. but the more he does, the more corrupt he tends to become.








Post four




almost twenty three pages of my first book, about Karrin are complete!! i have been writing every day, not always about TC and Karrin. but mostly them. and stretching out my Writing muscles!! *Sighs happily* and I got a new Love interest for Karrin, while doing this!

an older, quite tall, Really quite Athletic Cop, Named Salvo! in his late Thirties! of whom i am thinking about having get turned into a Werewolfe!

got a nifty slightly humorous, explanation. for why everyone thinks, the world is gonna end in 2012 written in there as well! *Sighs happily*

PS does anyone know how long i should leave my 16 gigabyte MP3 player charging?


PPS twenty three pages may not seem like much, but till today, i only had about six pages done. SO Yay for me! i'm beating down that confounded Writer's BLOCK! with the mighty aid of Winterborn! Marylin My Bitterness! Perfect! Here Comes The Rain, & Defender! by Cruxshadows! there to cover my BACK!!


PPPS i'm somewhat stoned on caffeine right now.


PPPPS does anyone have any ideas, of what i should call Karrin's series? i'm just calling it Karrin's turn right now, cause the idea of her came after TC. oh and my ideas for the name of TC's series, would be these. The Virtue to Vice series, & The Virtue Vs Vice series. should i be telling you guys about this? i don't want anyone stealing my ideas here! i'm feeling kinda paranoid right now! anyway let me know which sounds Better The Virtue to Vice series, or the Virtue Vs Vice series.


oh god, i hope no one steals these i got so much planned out! so many tragedies, so much angst, so much starcrossed lovers! so much Byronic Hero characteristics planned out for TC, so many drug's for TC to repeatedly try out, get addicted to, detox from, and overdose on.
Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, LSD, Morphine, Fentanyl, Oxymorphone, Opium, Marijauna, mushrooms, cocaine, Even the forbidden heroin!



 Oxycodone is gonna be his favorite drug of choice. because if need be he can think through it. he doesn't really like really powerful drugs, like Morphine and Heroin. which he can't think through. but if there is no such need, he can easily just lose himself in synthetic bliss. Oxycodone brings.



i really shouldn't be saying all this, should I? oh well. i need to bounce ideas off someone! and seeing as i am pretty much friendless, and the few friends i do have, don't know jack about writing! YOu guys are all i HAVE! my dad doesn't even really care, i think. course that could just be teenage hormones. but who knows, i certainly wouldn't. i mean, i am a teenager, only 14. with wild, fiery hormones, clouding every decision i make!



my heart's beating like a thousand miles per hour! i took in 200 mgs of Caffeine. just a 100 away from overdose. good lord!










Post five.


I'm still alive & Kicking guys! despite my near overdose on caffeine. and, i am in need of help. i'm still concentrating too much, on TC, and not enough on Karrin. any suggestions, for how i can focus a bit more on her? PS i still can't think of a name, for Karrin's series, some help there would be nice as well.














« Last Edit: June 14, 2010, 07:11:34 PM by The Grinning Psychopath »
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Re: Need help!!!!! having a bit of a Writer's block problem!
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2010, 03:12:39 PM »
Post five.


I'm still alive & Kicking guys! despite my near overdose on caffeine. and, i am in need of help. i'm still concentrating too much, on TC, and not enough on Karrin. any suggestions, for how i can focus a bit more on her? PS i still can't think of a name, for Karrin's series, some help there would be nice as well.


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My suggestion:

Write the first book. Finish it, then you'll have your series title. Books have a way of evolving WAY out of the author's hands - Tolkein always said that he soon felt that he was "discovering" Middle Earth, not creating it. So let the storyline bring you to the title. It's in there somewhere.

For now, put a working title on in, like "The Karrin Demon Series", so you've got something to call it.
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Re: Need help!!!!! having a bit of a Writer's block problem!
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2010, 03:16:15 PM »
Is focusing too much on TC really a bad thing. Maybe you should take it from being Karrin's series and make it TC's. Karrin can still be a leading character but not necessarily the lead. You wouldn't have to really change what happens in the series, but you'd just have to shift the focus a bit.

If you really want the focus to be on Karrin,  then you might want to diminish TC's role in all of this to a supporting role, at least for now, just to get the mindset focused on Karrin.
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Re: Need help!!!!! having a bit of a Writer's block problem!
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2010, 04:09:42 PM »
It seems like an extremely large project.

I would suggest that, while working on an extremely large project is a fine thing, you might want to think in terms of something smaller, or some smaller component of it, to work on alongside it or before you get deep into it.  Because learning how to write endings takes a certain amount of practice, and it would seem to me worth having a couple of completel things under your belt before trying to bring that big a thing to a successful close.
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Re: Need help!!!!! having a bit of a Writer's block problem!
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2010, 05:56:41 PM »
Hey, I see you got the thread thing going.  Coolness.

Now I'm going to throw out a bunch of thoughts.  Take them or leave them. :)  They will be both about posting and writing.
1.) Agreed on the music choice.  Same music tends to help me write.  Either that or real chill music like... Kid Loco for instance.
2.) However many pages you get done, they are all victories!
3.) If you are thinking more about TC's storyline and you are finding things to write about there, then do so.  Why the focus on making it Karrin's story?  It may be necessary to make her the spin-off later.  Write the story as it is and let the characters do their thing.
4.) Some people are big picture people.  You could almost call it strategic vs. tactical.  Right now you are looking at the strategy - planning out these huge story arcs.  You may find that they are actually bigger or smaller than you think.  Try to stay down in the 'tactical' section for now, where the book gets written. 
On that note, you mention writing clips.  I have two thoughts for you. 

 A - Try writing out a complete story in short story form.  It will be good practice, and will make you compress the story arc into the short story.  However - this means that you can jump from juicy part to juicy part without AS MUCH work on the transitions (you still have to work a transition, it just doesn't have to be scene-sized). 
 B - Just write whatever clips come to you.  It doesn't matter what they are.  If you think of another cool part (often I think of the rest of the story as I am working on bit-sized chunks that I already have in mind) than jot it down quickly and get back to what you were doing.  Each 'cool part' is a section where you already know what you want to write.  When you build up a bunch of cool parts and clips, start organizing them into an (already partially filled-in) outline.  Once you have that done you can start plugging in other ideas into their correct places, and you slowly build the skeleton of your story, put flesh on it, skin, color and voila - a novel is done. 


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Re: Need help!!!!! having a bit of a Writer's block problem!
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2010, 06:21:39 PM »
thanks all! for these suggestions. i'll think about something smaller, i could write up. thanks Neaurovore. and Prophet224 great suggestions, thanks for agreeing with me on the music thing, i'll take all your suggestions, thanks again.

 um, i did mention this, in my comments before. uh TC's series is the spinoff, kinda. though i did come up with TC and his series first, Karrin is the necessary element. cause at beginning of this whole series, TC's gonna start off Dead. he's a damned spirit, cursed by the High Council. and he's helping his Half Sister, Karrin. in her quest to save people.

which eventually get's her into a situation, which forces him, to take up a deal, Satan once offered him, while under the care of both, his sister, and his mother. that gives him his physical body back, and makes him able to save Karrin, from being killed by a blood ritualist.
« Last Edit: June 14, 2010, 08:24:49 PM by The Grinning Psychopath »
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