Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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I tried so hard to wake up early for Creative Writing. I set my alarm for 8:25, but killed it and dragged myself out at 9:45. Then at 10:02 I remembered that I had two assignments for that class. I picked the typing one and frantically typed it out, printed it at 10:56. I'm actually typing this really slow because two and a half pages in that time frame, ow. So, then I get dressed in the Eagles throw-back jersey, because they slaughtered the Lions so no one can say anything against them (I live in an area dominated by another NFL team). Last order of business was to turn on my laptop. Out of sheer boredom, I got on the internet and my prof. sent out an e-mail saying class was cancled. I love when class is cancled, but come on. I was proud of my typed out thingy. I used Dice and Snapdragon, which was probably a mistake. I can't do that one until I'm done with Mirror Image, and even then I've got to start focusing on Epic.

Okay, the assignment that I did was the prof. gave you lines and you had to build a story with those as the only speaking lines. It was two people and from the wording and stuff, it sounded a lot like a boyfriend asking his girlfriend to have (and because of younger people I cut off, even though they probably get the missing word). It was just a lot of, 'oh, I do know anymore', and 'but we did it before, I thought this was important to us'. So, when i read the lines in class and saw a lot of my classmates snickering, I knew what most people where going to do for their scene. I went a different way and picked, like I said, Snapdragon and Dice.

For people who don't know, Snapdragon Rambler is a "boss" and Dice Rebels is his protoge. In the actual story, Dice has left Snapdragon to start out on his own. But since this isn't part of the story, just and exercize (because I haven't started writing the story), I changed some things around. Dice is only fourteen, making Snaps twenty three. Dice helped this guy cheat at a poker game he was playing against Snapdragon. Snaps, furious at being cheated, takes Dice with him and hunts the guy down to kill him. So, Snapdragon orders Dice to kill the guy, and Dice, knowing it's not entirely the man's fault, backs down. He keeps thinking about telling Snaps he helped the man, but realises that Snapdragon is going to kill the guy no matter what. So, Dice leaves and Snaps kills the guy.

It actually workd out better then I thought. There were lines like:
Yes, but still...it's not like it's something we've never done before. You've never had a problem before this. (Snapdragon)
And:
Look, I'm not comfortable talking about this here, and now. This isn't the time, it isn't the place. (Dice)

When you just have those lines and nothing else, it does sound like what I said. Those lines don't follow each other. Add the scene, situation, characters, and you get a murder.

[Dice] It's not that, I just feel at times like this isn't going to matter at all, (pause), know what I mean? (Dice still couldn't tell snapdragon it was his fault the man whimpering into the gag was able to cheat.)
[Snapdragon] Yes, (looking slightly confused), but still...it's not like it's something we've never done before. You've never had a problem before this.
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[Dice] I just don't think we should talk about this right now. Not like this. (Snapdragon noticed Dice staring at the captive. Snapdragon gives the captive a kick.)
[Snapdragon] Why not? (snidely) What better time would there be? I honestly think that you'll conveniently forget about it, and we'll never manage to talk about this, because you'll always want to put it off until later. (Snapdragon grinding his heel into the captive's spine while glaring at Dice.)
[Dice] Look, I'm not comfortable talking about this here, and now. (Dice watches the captive's gag and wonders if he said anything to Snapdragon.) This isn't the time, it isn't the place.

Yeah, just some examples. I still think it wasn't a great idea picking them. I should've twisted it into something completely different entirely and used two Epic characters. Oh well.

SGAH
FYWR
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