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Being Normal

Awhile ago, during the advent calendar days, Dal Niente filled a prompt of mine about angsty Megamind watching Roxanne from outside her apartment and being all sad and... angsty.  It was really good and so, as is typical for me in response to her stories, I posted a little continuation to the story (Really, just ask her.  I do this ALL the time.).  Then she posted more.  And I posted more.  It became this extremely fun game of tag-team writing which entertained us for, I don't know...  A week or two, was it?  The whole thread was posted in the LJ comments of her original post.  So, if you want you can go back and read the whole thing there.  

Or, you can follow this lin http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8899381/1/Being-Normal over to FanFiction and read it as Dal Niente posts it.  She's put up four chapters so far and there should be at least...  what?  Three more?  Something like that.  The story's finished, but she's doling it out bit by bit.  

This is the raw story because editing it would be a big, time consuming task that we don't feel like getting into just now.  That means there are typos and places the story doesn't quite flow as well as it could.  Stuff like that. Still, it was tremendously fun to write and I think the story stands up even if it's not polished.  I hope it entertains you to read as much as it entertained us to write.  

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ladyspock
Jan. 18th, 2013 02:44 pm (UTC)
OH, what's a few typos? I remember that thread. It really was quite entertaining. I will definitely put this on my "to-read" list.
cyrrus25
Jan. 21st, 2013 01:42 pm (UTC)
I'm really enjoying this! You two are wonderfully creative. I'm curious, though; did you talk at all about where you were going at any time with the plot, or was this all made up as you went? Either way I'm having fun reading it. :)
kbjones
Jan. 21st, 2013 04:17 pm (UTC)
No, we didn't discuss it. I think we had a similar idea of where we wanted it to end (happy ending with them together) and that it needed some conflict in the middle, but we didn't actually DISCUSS it.

The thing with her dad being a gun-runner was COMPLETELY unexpected. I'm not sure Dal Niente even expected that and she wrote that bit. :)

We wrote the whole thing by the seat of our pants, just tag teaming it back and forth.

I think it helped that we've corresponded A LOT in IM over her Cold Fusion story, so we have an idea how we each feel about the characters and what we tend to do with them. I pretty much riff on her CF chapters all the time. I'm always posting some little continuation of her CF scenes or suggesting ideas on what to do next. Sometimes she uses some element of my idea, which is flattering, but of course it's all her writing. For example, we have a whole theory worked out on how mating actually works with his species for CF, but I'm not sure if it'll ever get used. Very unique.

So, the point is, we're both comfortable with working off each other. We'd just never done it in public or to this extent before.

We also both like to write in present tense for no readily apparent reason. So, that was nice too.
kbjones
Jan. 21st, 2013 04:30 pm (UTC)
She was in the middle of finals when this was written and all stressed out. She usually de-stresses by writing fanfiction, but once she starts, it sucks up so much time to do it. She didn't have the time to spare and still get her studying and final projects done. So, this tag-team writing game fit really good for her situation. She could write a short extension for a scene. Maybe an hour's writing or something like that. (I'm guessing. She writes fast.) And then she couldn't do more until I'd taken my turn. It kept her from losing herself in her writing and not doing her schoolwork. So, she told me that it really was EXACTLY what she needed at the time and we BOTH had lots of fun with it.

Part of the fun was setting a scene up, even ending with a leading paragraph, and then watching where the other would go with it. Often it was COMPLETELY different than the other expected. :)
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