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Nov. 7th, 2018 11:48 amFelling a bit less crackly today - that being said, I haven't done anything yet. Decided to just take a couple of hours to chill out and read.
I'm liking the family bingo card I have. The 1000 words or less one was hard because I needed to finish the story (and orig fic gives a disadvantage when word-count is at stake). I feel like with this card I can just work a few scenes that can be incorporated into something bigger later, and most of the squares suit the Waifs and Strays pantheon since that is a found family*. One of the squares even fits for like an extra scene at the end of my supposed-to-be-NaNo project, 'Acquiring New Members', which wouldn't be part of the novel proper but by tradition I do need to write the part where Perdita turns up at home, sorry not sorry about bringing more strays back, and Vivienne having a meltdown while Ajhan quietly putters around making sure everyone's fed and has somewhere to sleep. (Perdita's of the opinion that more kids, happy house-husband, and make-up sex with the missus makes this a no-lose situation).
* in my original 'verse, selection pressure and evolution also apply to the preternatural world. So, when worship became available as a food source a lot of Presences started to specialise, and they nudged out the ones who couldn't take advantage of it, then when monotheism hit the ones who'd specialised had to either retreat or they died back. So in areas where monotheism dominates a huge gap developed in the preternatural ecosystem. Preternature likes a vacuum about as much as Nature does, so that space is gradually being filled up by pseudo-gods and old ones who've adapted; the Waifs and Strays are a pantheon of throwbacks, survivors, technicalities, and synthetics, helping each other to figure it out as they go along.
I'm liking the family bingo card I have. The 1000 words or less one was hard because I needed to finish the story (and orig fic gives a disadvantage when word-count is at stake). I feel like with this card I can just work a few scenes that can be incorporated into something bigger later, and most of the squares suit the Waifs and Strays pantheon since that is a found family*. One of the squares even fits for like an extra scene at the end of my supposed-to-be-NaNo project, 'Acquiring New Members', which wouldn't be part of the novel proper but by tradition I do need to write the part where Perdita turns up at home, sorry not sorry about bringing more strays back, and Vivienne having a meltdown while Ajhan quietly putters around making sure everyone's fed and has somewhere to sleep. (Perdita's of the opinion that more kids, happy house-husband, and make-up sex with the missus makes this a no-lose situation).
* in my original 'verse, selection pressure and evolution also apply to the preternatural world. So, when worship became available as a food source a lot of Presences started to specialise, and they nudged out the ones who couldn't take advantage of it, then when monotheism hit the ones who'd specialised had to either retreat or they died back. So in areas where monotheism dominates a huge gap developed in the preternatural ecosystem. Preternature likes a vacuum about as much as Nature does, so that space is gradually being filled up by pseudo-gods and old ones who've adapted; the Waifs and Strays are a pantheon of throwbacks, survivors, technicalities, and synthetics, helping each other to figure it out as they go along.
