{"id":569,"date":"2012-03-23T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:31","slug":"info-dumpers-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/info-dumpers-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Info Dumpers Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been writing, which is good. It&#8217;s about the only thing I have been doing because I don&#8217;t have much energy or interest in anything else. I even let my farm on Farmville get all withered, and you would have thought my OCD would have forced me to care for my crops at least.<\/p>\n<p>My current priority projects:<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">THE BRAND<\/span><\/strong> &#8212; [Harper Kingsley] mm fantasy. This story has grown from &#8220;that harem thing&#8221; to something with a lot more court intrigue and assassination attempts. I&#8217;m very enthusiastic about it and I&#8217;ve been building a world that I hope other people will enjoy reading about as much as I&#8217;ve enjoyed writing it. [words: 100,000+]<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">FIENDS<\/span> <\/strong>&#8212; [Sol Crafter] mm supernatural. Teablossom is a jerk, but I think he&#8217;s becoming a creature with a little more depth than he started with. I&#8217;m still trying to see what kind of guy Henry is&#8211;though like a lot of my other characters he&#8217;s somehow managed to become completely neurotic. [words: 30,000+]<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">VEDRAN&#8217;S HAND<\/span><\/strong> &#8212; [Harper Kingsley] mm fantasy. My weekly opus. The world of Dragon Knight has become a lot richer and fuller than I started with and the characters have gained more depth. Dragon Knight has also become a bit of a sociopath that only cares about Vedran and would kill anyone else that got in his way, but he&#8217;s a hot sociopath, so that&#8217;s something. [words: 100,000+]<\/p>\n<p>What else is in my stew pot:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>ALLIES &amp; ENEMIES<\/strong><\/span> &#8212; [Harper Kingsley] The sequel to &#8220;Heroes &amp; Villains.&#8221; This should already be done, but it&#8217;s been very painful for me to go back through and add to. I&#8217;ve killed so many people in this story that I have to worry it might be a bit too much. [words: 120,000+]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>NYXTI<\/strong> <\/span>&#8212; [Harper Kingsley] mm fantasy. So I promised Sam Argent a story, and that&#8217;s pretty much this one. Set in the same world as &#8220;Vedran&#8217;s Hand&#8221; and &#8220;Black Hood,&#8221; but in a different decade. [words: 100,000+]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>TUESDAY NIGHT<\/strong><\/span> &#8212; [Sol Crafter] mm superhero. AU of &#8220;Pulse of the City.&#8221; Kind of a kid!fic, but really just two guys trying to make a life together. [words: 50,000+]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>DOGGY STYLE<\/strong><\/span> &#8211;[Sol Crafter] mm supernatural. Zack gets turned into a dog, then has to figure out how to get back to being human. [words: 30,000]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>ACROSS TWO DIVIDES<\/strong><\/span> &#8212; [Sol Crafter] So I&#8217;m this awful person that killed off this poor guy&#8217;s brother, and now I&#8217;ve gotta get him past his grief to the point where he&#8217;s not just a pile of misery.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I&#8217;ve got a lot on my plate and I&#8217;m moving through it all at a steady pace.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious, this is how I write:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I come up with the initial idea. Which can basically be &#8220;two guys meet and fall into a relationship that has an HEA&#8221; or &#8220;a guy really wants to be a superhero, but it doesn&#8217;t work out, so he becomes a pretty serious supervillain.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I expand on the idea in note form. Pages of description, things I think I might want to have take place, even background info that I might not use for that particular story but might use later.<\/li>\n<li>I write a synopsis. A generalized sketch of what I want to have take place in the story. Beginning, middle, and end, though it&#8217;s pretty sparse.<\/li>\n<li>I write a serious outline that goes through the scenes one-by-one and includes all the dialogue. My outline could basically be seen as the entire story in compacted form.<\/li>\n<li>Using my outline, I write out the scenes, filling in all the details and richer descriptions of people and scenery.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sometimes I don&#8217;t bother with steps 3, 4 and 5. If I feel like I know the story and the characters well-enough, I just come up with the world they live in and let them go about their business.<\/p>\n<p>My daily quota: 12,000 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been writing, which is good. It&#8217;s about the only thing I have been doing because I don&#8217;t have much energy or interest in anything else. I even let my farm on Farmville get all withered, and you would have thought my OCD would have forced me to care for my crops at least.&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/info-dumpers-anonymous\/\" title=\"Info Dumpers Anonymous\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Info Dumpers Anonymous<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,80,86,87],"tags":[618,794],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-real-life","category-upcoming-projects","category-whats-up-buttercup","category-writing-2","tag-rl","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-9b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":609,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/me-date-as-in-whats-up-in-the-world-of-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":569,"position":0},"title":"Me-date. 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