Story Explanations.

Like a commentary on your story or a reason why you did what you did.

Have you ever wanted to explain that but never really had a place to do it? I know I have. Thus, the story explanations thread.

Post away.

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Moving Portraits of Two Boys.
Originally the sections were separated by three dashes, but I thought it disrupted the flow of the story. I couldn't very well string everything together because they are different scenes. So I adopted a pretty popular method from LiveJournal. That's why everything is separated with lines from songs. It didn't disrupt the flow.

All the chapters from The Youth have parts written in itallics. This applys to two things in this story: thoughts of the narrator and flashbacks.

I find that the itallics work better than using speech marks and FLASHBACK, because they have that effect. Said thoughts and flashbacks are usually times precisely to move the story along or introduce a new idea.

The story is designed to read like a thought process, so the grammar, particularly repition, syntax and punctuation are often a little unorthodox. At the same time, it's also meant to read as if the narrator were sat in the same room as the reader, telling them a story.

My story isn't written in a linear time frame either. Every chapter, aside from flashbacks, is written in the present tense, although some clearly come before and after other parts. That's why chapter one was "chapter one" and not "prologue". It wasn't meant to feel like a prologue. It's open to interpretation of the reader a lot of the time as to what happened first.

The flashbacks are written in any particular order either, as if someone were simply recalling memories as they came to them.

The story is also interspersed with references to popular culture and history and cliches in an entirely jumbled up fashion, where everything is taken out of context and only half coherent. Most of what is regurgitated by the narrator means nothing to him, he forgets where he got it from, or sometimes what it actually is.

Part of it's meant to be read like a garbled version of 1984, 100 Years Of Solitude and The Bible all messed together as if it's been run through a shredder. It's also rather like the lottery, because it becomes pot luck what small piece of information the narrative will reveal about the world in which it is set.

I also prefer to hint things, rather than sign post them, and see if the reader can work it out for themselves. I intend to leave it open ended when I am done.

A Battle Scarred Warrior is an original fiction I actually wrote as therapy.
It was never meant for anyone.
But after I got over that period in my life, I wanted to post it up.
I used the fairly simple analogy because I think it explain alot about my inner mind.
:shifty

I wrote Hands To Fuel Desire to prove that I could write a story like that. To prove that I wasn't afraid, and to prove to my friends who are against sexual stories that they weren't the reason why I didn't write sex stories. I also wrote it to prove to people that I just can't write those kinds of stories well. :lmfao

By the time I was almost finished writing that story, I realized that I wrote about an event of my life: me being in love with someone, and them being oblivious.

I love this thread already. :coffee:

Everything I write, I write to:
-Articulate the pictures and images I have in my head.
-Create a mood and atmosphere.
-Improve my writing and prove to myself and others that I'm a great writer.
-Make people think and understand in a different way.
-Entertain, amuse, and shock myself and others.

My story Nice Bones, in particular,
I wrote to introduce concepts that people might not think about much.
I wrote it to make people think and draw their own conclusions.
I wrote it to make an impact on others and get a reaction,
no matter what that reaction is, as long as it's strong.

In Objective Promiscuity Ryan likes the pleasure he gets from pleasuring others. It isn't a sexual pleasure, but he enjoys it. It's part of the reason he prefers blowjobs to sex; their pleasure isn't tampered with his own.

Special is a Frerard, and in the story, Gerard has autism, that's why I named the story 'Special'. It refers to him being a 'special child'. I wrote this because I was frustrated at the time. My brother has autism too, and I decided to put myself in Mikey's place as Gerard's little brother.

And . . . I don't know, the pairing just seemed right for the story. I made Frank this confused, angsty teenager. :XD

That's pretty much why I wrote it. :think:

I am writing The Chemical Plan (unreleased) because I haven't seen a story like it before. Because I think it's genius. Because I think it's going to be epic, and I think it'll have an influence on readers. I don't think they'd be able to listen to MCR or SP the same way after reading TCP, nor would you be able to look at David Desrosiers or Frank Iero the same way ever again.

Also because Erika told me it was a good plot, and I love her, and I just want to make her happy.

The Horsemen imagery in The End of Days came about because of the first horsemen line. I thought it was seven horsemen, but I looked it up to be sure. Then I started reading all these things about the Horsemen and it sort of just mixed in with the story.

I'm writing 24&29 because everything in it is supposed to be my story. Everything in it is what could've happened if she liked me, too. The whole story line I have in my head for this story is beautiful, and I want to give it to someone. I want to make it real. So I wrote 24&29.

:shifty

I met Eva when I was fourteen. I had just lost my first dance partner because she moved. Eva was with the same teacher as I was, and our teacher introduced us. She had just started dancing contemporary, having been a Salsa dancer before. Anyways, I fell in love with her. She was the most amazing and talented girl I ever knew and ever will know. We started dating and everything, and life was perfect.

Until three months ago when things started going wrong. And I don't know why. She started yelling at me in German and Spanish and never ever English so I could understand her. And things just progressively got worse until about two weeks ago she left me completely.

The day she left, I started writing Send My Love To The Dance Floor, because she still is my inspiration, and I still love her, and always will. That's why I wrote it. For my little brown girl.

I wrote Streetlights While I was listening to the Ludo song by the same name. I just started thinking about something that would compliment the mood of the song, and I just started thinking of things young lovers would do under streetlighs or at night (not dirty), and the rest is history.

Iwrote am writing Of Honey and Ink because I was watching Carrie 2: The Rage and got very inspired by the manner in which the girl in the movie commits suicide: jumping off the roof of the school onto a car. It stuck in my head for ages and I couldn't not write something about it. While I was on vacation, I brought my notebook with me. One of the nights in the first hotel, I wrote the first chapter of it.

I wrote almost all of my oneshots, especially Stained Glass, Radiance, Stars, Calla Lilies, and Cemetery Like a Stage, because I couldn't get images of ideas for my RPG out of my head. They're all a Shavok pairing because they're a huge part of the RPG and have a very fucked up relationship. All of these in particular relate to specific parts of the RPG that happened or were in mind to happen.

Stars was the first one I wrote. I still believe it to be the best one, although people seem to like Radiance more.

Ryan's Journal did not start as a story. I don't even really consider it one.

I bought a new journal and was stuck on what to write so I just started writing a few paragraphs as Ryan. A few paragraphs turned into 2100 words. And I'm still going.

With Forever Young, the whole basis of the the 'what to do with that last moment you had ' was something I've been interested in for years, whether the last second at the end of the world, or before your death, would be longer or shorter or what a person would actually be inclined to do with that time. It intrigued me, so i wrote it into that contest entry because it fitted better than anywhere else.

Last year, I met a guy named Cliff in my class and we weren't the best
of friends. Not even friends at all. Him and I had a really huge love/hate realtionship
and I even gained a crush on him. Our hate was pointless and it was just because of
how we were different. He liked all this classic rock and was all about metal while I
cared for more emotional alternative.
Of course, he came to the point with stereotypes and he called me emo. There were
times where I liked him and after some arguments me have, I always got angry at
myself because I couldn't believe I liked such a jerk.
That's when I decided to write When My Hate Meets Your Love
It's based on all the disputes going on between us. Some of dialogue was actually
said in real life and everyday we had an argument. That's what gave me ideas and
a plot.

I wrote Shadows Of My Past because I needed to get it all off my chest.

I don't think anybody understood quite how it affected me but maybe they will if they read that. It was really important that I wrote it. It was something that I needed to do and maybe I'll finally sleep easy.

He Doesn't Cry.
I was watching Titanic with my brother. His eyes got all red and I kind of teased him that he was a pansy for crying.
He looked angry and told me, "I'm trying." Then he ran off to draw. And ta-da. This story.

I Know.
When I was little, I broke a water glass and my mom got really angry.
I had this real bad cut on my arm so I ran to the bathroom to care for myself and I always believed that angels treated me.

He Doesn't Care.
I had a rough day with my brother. I really just hated him at the time.
But I got over myself. I just wrote thise all of a sudden. It all went out so fast.
The idea first started when my brother started getting so mad at me that he tried to strangle me because I wouldn't stop bugging/arguing with him.

I'm rewriting Hard As Nails again because I'm never completely satisfied. The whole plotline and backstory has to be redone now because i want it to take place during summer so it's not an even more cliche high school story.

Usually italics, the way I use it, are for something that
either the character is thinking or for something that is sort of
“outside” the story, like a different voice of sorts.
The italics parts in Empty, however, are actually
what’s really going on in the story. The rest is addressing the
reader but those parts are actually what the narrator is telling
and it’s what’s really outside of the actual event that’s taking place.
The few lines in italics are what’s actually going on and are addressed
to and about another character, I suppose you can say, that the reader
can’t really “see.” I have no idea if it actually comes this way but
that’s at least how it’s meant to work.

In some stories, like At Pride’s Expense and Unfamiliar Eyes, there’s
no double spacing between lines that should be double spaced.
I usually would never do this but it’s a technique I use when I
a characters thoughts and actions go together but are contrasting.
Like, the character is thinking one thing but acting another
and it’s happening simultaneously.
It also appears in Downpour and also for the reason that
it’s happening simultaneously, though it’s a bit different
from the two other stories.