Writing Updates

[wyntir_knight]

So I figured I should do another update on what I'm working on:

For some unknown reason I'm still having trouble with The Polyhex Candidate and I'm making very little progress on that one. Not sure what's up there, but I'll try to focus on it at a later date.

Right now I'm working on my Camp NaNo entry. I had an idea ages ago for a Lovecraftian Transformers story involving Nightbeat and Muzzle. Again, I'm not sure where I'm going with it, but it should be fun regardless. There isn't nearly enough Nightbeat in TF fanfiction and certainly nowhere near enough Lovecraft!

And then there are a few plot bunnies that I adopted and hope to do something with:


1. Smokescreen is forced to join the Wreckers when Optimus becomes concerned about their well being, but doesn't want to send Rung out into the field.

2. A few vorn after the Ark disappeared, the Autobots, desperate to survive, formed a Ghost Army. This army was surprisingly successful and is so classified only Ultra Magnus, Alpha Trion, and the members of the Ghost Army even know about the Ghost Army's mission. Suggested Ghost Army members: Perceptor (come on, did you honestly expect me to not mention him?), Blaster, Red Alert, Inferno, Smokescreen, and anyone else you think would fit.

3. Smokey accidentally gets Red Alert high and they have to hide out at one of Smokey's old safehouses until Red comes down.

4. The TF's as humans and the Avengers story. I've posted some of that already.

And then there's the original Lovecraft inspired novel and a TMNT/Lovecraft story I need to rewrite and complete.

So July will hopefully be productive.

Comments

[bluebirdsoaring.livejournal.com]

I wish TPC would behave for you - Jazz, now play nice!! Happy to help bounce ideas around if that helps at all =)

Fun new ideas too, esp Smokey getting Red high...totally could see it happening...poor Red never would see it coming either =) And I still need to get a cool Smokey icon...You have my sneaky Siders for now =)

[wyntir-knight.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) Right now I'm trying my hand at Nightbeat and Muzzle for Camp Nano, but I'll be trying to go after TPC in August. I'm pretty much stuck at the splitting point where Smokey and Mirage finally get their hands on Jazz. For some reason it's going slow and difficult. You wouldn't think that it'd be that hard to write a failed assassination scene.

[bluebirdsoaring.livejournal.com]

That is a moment I could see being so hard to write!! I wonder if the question is perhaps why he failed? He's been so "perfect" up to this point and so deadly. What falls apart now? How much does he remember? Or is he so lost in his confusion that his distraction allows them to finally get him in cuffs? Does a part of him want to be caught? Does he actually think he has succeeded, and therefore he stops, or the program releases him? What did these two mechs have to do in order to take him down? How did it impact him, and others watching? Were they given permission to go this far? Does Jazz come back to himself right at a critical moment in this scene?

Just totally throwing out brainstorming ideas....I have no idea how you have this planned to go, but seeing how this is a favorite story of mine, and these are the questions I am dying to know the answers to =) Hope this helps, even if just to get those juices moving in the right direction. Tell Jazz to play nice!

And the really big question of all>>>>What will Prowl do next?

[wyntir-knight.livejournal.com]

Well, the way I have it set up - or should I say the way I aim to have it set up - is that as Jazz goes to finish the job when he's faced with Prowl in the vicinity and the bond calling to him. This causes a crisis between his bond and the reprogramming and leads to him firing wildly into the crowd and bolting. Eventually Smokey and Mirage catch up with him, a fight breaks out, and they finally apprehend him. I have the later combat scene fleshed out (I just need to fix up a couple of parts and rework a touch of the action). My issue is stemming from that internal crisis of Jazz's where I try to show all of this conflict in what amounts to just a few seconds of real-world time. I want to basically create a tug of war between Prowl and Bombshell with Jazz in the middle and every time I try it comes out as cheesy. At least in my mind it does.

[bluebirdsoaring.livejournal.com]

That sounds wonderful!! Since we did see him struggling with the thought of 'did he kill Prowl?' in the last bit, seeing him and feeling the bond calling him totally makes sense =) Happy to beta...I doubt it is as cheesy as you think =) This is going to be highly emotionally charged - they are all on a knife's edge - Prowl has never been good with emotions, and to finally see Jazz, feel Jazz, find a last ditch effort to save him would put him in a no holds barred battle of sparks and minds and emotions too! I don't claim to have a clue what Bombshell's character is like, but Prowl likes to play around my headspace, and I could maybe imagine what that level of despair he might be at....You are great with these bits of drama =)Maybe in the end someone just needs to hit Jazz in the head with a really big heavy object...just kidding =)