FAKKU Writers' Lounge

THERE I DID IT!

https://www.fakku.net/forums/writing-and-fanfiction/wf-section-story-collaboration-the-boring-boy/page/3#4186685

nine months to get outta this mess, simply brilliant lel :DDD

And still stuck with no solution!

well we can think for a solution. just think how Shiro end up there and how will he decide to get out of this place.

Wouldn't know. Shikinokami wanted to see the story continue so I am leaving it up to him. I was wondering what kind of adventure you would have in the mountains? All I can think of are mountain sickness, the bitter cold, inaccessible peaks, limited mobility and no trace of civilization unless you move down the mountains.

to think about it once again, it's really funny when the original premise is meant to be just spending the summer vacation with our heroine.

I myself don't really get how did they end up there, I only read something having too much deus ex machina mechanism.

so the best bet was to flip the kill switch and make things normal again. for example, making things appear like a nightmare, have the protagonist in a normal world. spending the summer vacation sleeping through like hibernation and abandoning all the summer homework.

We were in a school scenario then we were mysteriously in a hospital / asylum scenario before the Complete Horizon (if you still remember him) wrote us into a heist scenario and then Shark wrote us into a mountain adventure scenario.

well that means we can just continue however we want. just write in a manner you're most comfortable :D

I hope that description of what had happened in the Boring Boy was confusing. At least the first 2 pages did not jump from one setting to another setting. I can imagine a school turning into a hospital. Perhaps it is a medical school!

I know we spoke about it yesterday but I would like to clarify. You are in favour of the Private Eye going in an anticlimactic direction?

well yeah, that parts were easier to understand.

I'm saying that because I'm in favor of writing comedic situations to a more serious one, though if most prefer it to be the serious way, I can comply =D

Personally, I am in favour of portraying the PI as a madman. Of course you can write about him getting into gun fights but I would say that it was all in his head or he would be hilariously powerless in such a situation.

Since I introduced the L-267 antidepressant, I think it can work its way into the story as a plot point.

As for the Boring Boy, I noticed that I understood my nonsense better than other people's nonsense even though I forgot what I had written nine months ago. Did the same apply to you?

I guess I kind of portray PI as some awkward man with some psychological problems. at times he might be portrayed as brave, but I'd like to make him someone cowardly instead! it's kind of funny if he puts all the bravado for bluffing and he's brave enough when faced with hippies (or while in drugs) =D

yeah that can serve as a point.

of course, I understand it better since I wrote it. well how could I remember things in detail long ago? I can somehow remember a gist that I've written these though.

Well no use for me just talking about it. I will see if there are any posts in the thread for the next week before posting.

(Though concerning the L-267 drug, I was thinking that we can introduce drug cartels into the story.)

While the Boring Boy is nonsense, they were quite a lot of people introduced in that story. I only remember the God-Like Writers who control events, a father and perhaps the Bangladeshi exchange student or the fat woman who assaulted them. I was thinking that Shiro would find some way to defeat Mr. L and write himself a world that he always wanted with help from his father.

But remember Shiro has leanings towards incest, unable to control his emotions and has father issues.

I can try writing something in the meantime. probably more about descriptions in the mountain, and mostly about Shiro complaining to Mr. L about the predicament they're in.

I guess the PI story mainly focused on drug usage, just like what Max Payne does. I think the main plot can start when PI searches for Jacqueline the Ripper. it can tie up towards a drug cartel, and the woman's inquiry was actually a starting point to a bigger piece of puzzle.

well yeah, we've probably want these people to appear again. we want some events that somehow make sense, that ties all of them together in this, and probably not as creatively-run-out-of-juice thingy like it's all a story that's been written by some group of confused Authors. I guess, no use mulling 'bout it so much, let's just write on.

will note that. maybe I'll try to make lots of complains about how Shiro missed his father so much it made Mr. L smack him in the head or something like that in the middle of snowstorm.

So I take it that you are in favour of relegating the god like Writers into the dustbin of bad memory?

well, I guess. it kinda makes it hard to follow for others too. =D

if we want to end the story, I think we've got to finish the main premise, which is, the aftermath of summer vacation. we can forcefully end it by making Shiro woke up from a nightmare at the end of summer vacation (with the consent of others of course) or we could try making it so it could naturally end.

Awww... Well, it is an idea that I am familiar with and I think the story can centre around them. I thought of parodying the arguments we have in the Lounge in the Boring Boy. That is why the Writers came into being.

I will see how it continues. It is quite possible that Mr. L will reach for the kill switch again and that we find ourselves back at where we started and the Writers would no longer appear.

though I guess, if the idea makes it even harder to follow through with the story, then we can kept the separate idea in your cesspit for the lulz =D

that can do, though it probably would be better if we can try progressing through without using too much deus ex machina. my only idea atn was to make Shiro woke up from a nightmare though. the story will then start on a more normal tone, but there's many ways to write it, I guess.

I think, it's primarily for fun, but it can also help us to develop our own plot devices. I for example, find it to be my greatest weakness which caused me to end many stories midway.

I have to ask, harder to follow for other people, or harder to follow for you? Nobody reads the Boring Boy anyway but if it is hard for you to follow then all the more reason to drop it.

That said, I have issued a threat to Xenon. If the Private Eye is inactive for more than two weeks, I am going to find someone to write with me and flood the thread with our entries. Care to join me?

I guess it's more for the others. I can always think of something to make sense of the nonsense if there's others who would like to join me in.

count me in, it could be a good practice on writing plotlines.