Old Times, Tara-edition

Yeah... I remember my early days of tormiction. A couple pals and I were going to co-author the EIGHTH installment of the Chronicles of Narnia *snickering*. It was tormiction out yer ears, I'm tellin' ya! Someone was unconscious every other page. And the page in between was spent trying to get the person unconscious on the LAST page recovered enough to be unconscious again on the NEXT page. *evil grin* It was baaaaaad, I'm tellin' ya... :-D

Old times (boy, does that sound weird)

I was doing some spring cleaning (yes, in February) and I ran across a bunch of old stories. Old stories. I entertained myself by leaning against my bed and reading them. They were quite repetitively predictable, and I was amazed at the situations I got my characters into and out of. For instance, I let a maniac loose. He (he's also just under the qualifications for a giant) pounded down an padlocked iron door. There was another character (he was about 19/20) coming down the hall, and the main character (a 13 y/o girl who's small for her age) coming from the other direction. The 19 y/o whistles for help, and the three best (strongest, smartest) men there quickly show up. The maniac immediately takes out the strongest (quite a feat) and the second one (who's deaf, mute, and blind in one eye but remarkably able to figure out everything that's going on) and grabs the third around the neck. The 19 y/o, I forgot to mention, was also knocked out. That left the 13 y/o, who cannot take this guy on. Somehow, I got them out of that situation (I won't tell you how, that would spoil everything). Somehow this was done a long time ago, without Tara's help. Wow. That's just one of the situations I maneuvered them out of. Boy it was fun, just going through those stories and laughing at them. I also rediscovered several cool names (Guardian Night, Storm Shadow, Jianfel, Axume, Arachne, etc.) that just ended up in the wrong place. Alright. This sounds great. (And talk about ideas...)

As before and always be,
Nestami.

I'll be writing more posts 'cause the other author is sick...

I must admit, Tara, we need to isolate that bug. Right now I'm in desperate need of ideas. But since you in your current state are not in a position to verbally give ideas (to anyone -not just me)...I'll be praying for you. And I hope to find Monique soon. Either way, there are some fascinating ways in which somebody getting sick could really spice up a story...and I have discovered some and am on the verge of discovering others...

As before and always be,
Nestami