Overdue Intro - Let's do this!
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onedeadplotbunnyHello all! I'm Marianne, but you may call me Mari for short if you prefer. (I don't mind.)
I love writing, and first got into it while I was nine. I do poetry, fanfiction, and some roleplay writing with friends on the side. I'm quite booked on it now, and more ideas for an original novel have yet to come to mind. I found out a while back that I'm great at writing exciting, scary stuff. I'm one of the friendliest people you'd meet in person, and my dark side comes out through a lot of my fiction. I started to call it My Creative Darkness.
Currently, I've returned to writing this really intense, emotional, and funny (in places) Death Note fic, titled Crawl--after a slowiatus of two years. I started this other one, with a really good concept called Collide first, two years ago. Then, I found this awesome story on fanfiction.net, "God of the Machine", by The Carnivorous Muffin. Very well thought out and described! It's believable, and the developing bond between the original character and Light as they become friends to the interesting twist of what L does is just wonderful.
This fic first caused the appearance of a premise bunny I wasn't sure I could make room for, so it would give birth to the sinister plot bunnies a twisted death god would want to cuddle. It wasn't until I found a song ("Watch You Crawl", by Red) that made me decide to write it. (It's such an interesting coincidence that the word collide is in the chorus of the lyrics of that very song. Or, had this been a part of the premise bunny's plan? :-O Wow, what a sneaky and clever critter! XD It knows everything!)
It's a great challenge, this story. It's a bit hard, because it gets really emotional. Wow, Light Yagami being seriously angry is terrifying. My own character's fears, paranoias, and resentments are written out realistically. I've been managing so far, but I hope it doesn't get too tough to write later on! The comic relief should help, at least a little.
Once in a while, if I'm in the mood, I do freestyle poetry. Most do not rhyme (because I learned it doesn't have to), and there's actually one I wrote and started an actual song for. I do my own music, mostly on the PC. Carcassonne Overview is one I'm stuck on though. It's just so much to do and I got stuck, so it's been on hold for a while now. It's not the poem itself, but the music composition I've come into trouble with... It's a cute and geeky song project I won't entirely abandon though!
I'm overall glad I found this community. It looks awesome, and I think this community should help me not have the Death Note fics go into another 2 year slowiatus again. (Collide is popular on FF.net, and in time I feel Crawl might get more hype, if I keep up with it...) I've also befriended a member, and became buddies withkalloway before that. :D I wouldn't mind getting to know more of you.
I love writing, and first got into it while I was nine. I do poetry, fanfiction, and some roleplay writing with friends on the side. I'm quite booked on it now, and more ideas for an original novel have yet to come to mind. I found out a while back that I'm great at writing exciting, scary stuff. I'm one of the friendliest people you'd meet in person, and my dark side comes out through a lot of my fiction. I started to call it My Creative Darkness.
Currently, I've returned to writing this really intense, emotional, and funny (in places) Death Note fic, titled Crawl--after a slowiatus of two years. I started this other one, with a really good concept called Collide first, two years ago. Then, I found this awesome story on fanfiction.net, "God of the Machine", by The Carnivorous Muffin. Very well thought out and described! It's believable, and the developing bond between the original character and Light as they become friends to the interesting twist of what L does is just wonderful.
This fic first caused the appearance of a premise bunny I wasn't sure I could make room for, so it would give birth to the sinister plot bunnies a twisted death god would want to cuddle. It wasn't until I found a song ("Watch You Crawl", by Red) that made me decide to write it. (It's such an interesting coincidence that the word collide is in the chorus of the lyrics of that very song. Or, had this been a part of the premise bunny's plan? :-O Wow, what a sneaky and clever critter! XD It knows everything!)
It's a great challenge, this story. It's a bit hard, because it gets really emotional. Wow, Light Yagami being seriously angry is terrifying. My own character's fears, paranoias, and resentments are written out realistically. I've been managing so far, but I hope it doesn't get too tough to write later on! The comic relief should help, at least a little.
Once in a while, if I'm in the mood, I do freestyle poetry. Most do not rhyme (because I learned it doesn't have to), and there's actually one I wrote and started an actual song for. I do my own music, mostly on the PC. Carcassonne Overview is one I'm stuck on though. It's just so much to do and I got stuck, so it's been on hold for a while now. It's not the poem itself, but the music composition I've come into trouble with... It's a cute and geeky song project I won't entirely abandon though!
I'm overall glad I found this community. It looks awesome, and I think this community should help me not have the Death Note fics go into another 2 year slowiatus again. (Collide is popular on FF.net, and in time I feel Crawl might get more hype, if I keep up with it...) I've also befriended a member, and became buddies with
kalloway before that. :D I wouldn't mind getting to know more of you.
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Date: 2015-02-11 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-11 12:48 am (UTC)I love both music and writing loads, so they often somehow intertwine... Both the song and the story God of the Machine altogether brought on the inspiration to start Crawl.
The words and the mood of Red's "Watch You Crawl" fit so well to the two main characters at conflict with each other! (I'm sure you can find the song with lyrics on YouTube, if you're that curious to listen to it.) I've even been inserting parts of the lyrics at the beginning of the chapters.
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Date: 2015-02-11 03:04 am (UTC)I haven't listened to the song, but I checked the lyrics and I see what you mean! It's evocative of their struggle.
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Date: 2015-02-11 03:53 am (UTC)The first part and first time the chorus comes around in "Watch You Crawl" to me is from the OC's point of view. Most of the second verse and parts of the chorus the second time around are Kira-Light's. I intend to emphasize the Kira-Light parts in italic bold, in future chapters. :D
I have a YouTube playlist of other songs I put together for songs for both this story and my other epic Death Note one I'll get back to (eventually) called Collide. I've liked these stories so much I put together soundtracks for them. XD
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Date: 2015-02-13 10:04 pm (UTC)Anyway! Hello! =)
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Date: 2015-02-14 04:44 am (UTC)Yes, such stories can get scary when written well and believable enough. I've never written 40+ pages on a single chapter for any other story, which is part of why it's proven to be a challenge so far.
I've always been good at writing scary stuff but nothing quite like Crawl. A portion of the plot is very human-centered. One is a serial killer aspiring to be a new god of a world purged of all evil. The other is a woman from a parallel reality who's frightened of him, and has nowhere to run to. They're both stuck in a very unwanted situation, and will have to form some sort of middle ground to actually cooperate with one another.