Question Up for adoption

In January I posted an intro that I gave the title of No One Wants to be Different. I'd like to offer this story up for adoption if there is an author who would like to work with it. I'm looking at it again and just know I've done everything wrong in the story but hope someone is interested in taking it further. I suspect it will be like the hundreds of other stories on my hard drive if someone doesn't adopt it. That is it will never be finished. Of which I'm ashamed...

Don't be too hard on yourself. I myself an a horrible writer when it comes to actually getting down to writing, and all the rules of writing, but I plug away at it because I'm an idea girl. I have ideas and I hate for them to never see the light of day

if I didn't have literally hundreds of false starts I'd feel better. 'That one didn't work either, and I don't know why exactly...'

maybe you need a sounding board or collaborator to help you. I'd volunteer, but if I had all of Anomaly's hands, they'd still be full.

Link to the intro, please?

Malady wrote: Link to the intro, please?

" No One Wants To Be Different "

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"I suspect it will be like the hundreds of other stories on my hard drive if someone doesn't adopt it. That is it will never be finished."

I can barely keep a single narrative on-track. Even when the adderall's working. So my OCs started in the Micro-Scenes as an equivalent of Statler and Waldorf using a Shadowrun character and an NPC of mine. It would be soooo much simpler if Chekhov's Hampsters didn't keep breeding.

Short bits that build out the world a little - maybe even only one scene - may feel "incomplete" , but is that much different from reading a poem or short story and thinking "I want more of this"?

null0trooper wrote:

Malady wrote: Link to the intro, please?

" No One Wants To Be Different "

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Anne wrote: I suspect it will be like the hundreds of other stories on my hard drive if someone doesn't adopt it. That is it will never be finished.

I can barely keep a single narrative on-track. Even when the adderall's working. So my OCs started in the Micro-Scenes as an equivalent of Statler and Waldorf using a Shadowrun character and an NPC of mine. It would be soooo much simpler if Chekhov's Hampsters didn't keep breeding.

Short bits that build out the world a little - maybe even only one scene - may feel "incomplete" , but is that much different from reading a poem or short story and thinking "I want more of this"?

Truth. What does "complete" mean? It could be setting up a character for later, and then your next snip is years later, when they're a superhero, or something.

If you have tons of snips, then import some together? I've got characters that I reuse 'cause I haven't published anything with them.

With a detailed enough world, stories just flow.

If you've got a mutant, they're gonna encounter the MCO, unless they don't for some unusual reason.

What's their powers? How does that affect their life? How do they get to Whateley...

Enough setting detail and things just flow. The problem then becomes getting it down and online. Instead of "Where am I going?", it becomes "Where am I gonna find the time to get 'this' down?"

Rose Bunny wrote: maybe you need a sounding board or collaborator to help you. I'd volunteer, but if I had all of Anomaly's hands, they'd still be full.

I'd certainly like to have a collaborator if someone was willing. Yeah Anomaly's hands and a prehensile tail as well...!

Ok, you said you have multiple ideas that are kicking around that might not get done. Introduce some of them in their own chapters of the story, Send Jason on the run from someone. Have him encounter them to introduce them into your personal canon. He can travel with them, or get help from them in cameo form at crucial moments. Send him ( or them) on a life or death race against time and maybe a shared adversary (H1 or rogue villain or MCO are easy) then you can kill off the ones you don't like, improve or bolster the ones you do. You ever see Escape to Witch Mountain? Not the one with The Rock, but the old one? Cross country race to get to safety ( Wateley).
Just an Idea.

a little more help for you on the Idea I mentioned last time. Witch Mountain ,
In the same way those kids go on the run, your protagonist can go on the cross-country trek to Whateley. there She can meet other of your characters, ones who can be friend or foe, who can join her on the trip, or help out at a key point.

That is an interesting idea. One reason that I'm offering this for adoption is that I'm out of work and see very little chance of returning to work so expect to be homeless or worse soon.

Can you get unemployment? Do you have any friends? Family?

Is there any chance you can apply for disability or Social Security-disability? I'm currently out on disability from a stroke I had.

Umm... I would be more then willing to try and write this story. I think it could be really fun but I would need to know some basic things.
IE what spirit she bonded with, is there a set identity for the girl who picked her up or should I improvise. If there is a general direction you want the story to go or if I can fill in bits on my own...
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Thank you for your suggestions. I'm not sure I want to do the research necessary to have Jazz run. I may or may not. Currently she is convinced she will have to. Hopefully someone will convince her to at least wait a bit. She is an elf (sidhe) without any means of support in the center of a large city... Which city I haven't decided yet. So she probably can't get clothes she is not allergic to. Also she is at least sensitive to cold iron, untelling what her reaction to being wounded by an iron knife will be! But it wouldn't be pretty. So, hopefully, as I said, she will listen and at least wait for a bit, until she has something more than a hospital gown to wear!

Ohhh... I thought you were talking about Nowhereville on here, not the other story. That one sounds interesting too though. The suggestions were because you said you might end up homeless.

Well if I don't find work soon I'm going to be surviving on 20% VA disability. I may, possibly be able to move back to my parents place. But... IDK. The big issue for most of the year where I live now is the sun...