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So, the Timeline Tales is kicking my tush and I need help.
All of sudden, I've got a huge deadline looming in the distant future. Disney has announced that they want to make a live-action version of the Nutcracker, and they want it to be their next Alice in Wonderland. Kind of pisses me off, but that's a story for another time with a lot within that. I'm dreading it. However, people will have a greater interest in the story of the Nutcracker, so if I want to get my work noticed, that's the time to do it, before everyone else starts jumping on the bandwagon. I've already found three other novel versions of the story, so I want to get this done quickly, and I want it done well.
I'm at a block in terms of developing major aspects of my story. While several small details are falling in place, some key elements will not be going anywhere. I'm already seeing the signs. Thus, I'm wondering if I should adjust some of the my other plots, and keep Nutcracker and Coppelia, since they are most well-rounded and fit best together.
With my characters, I'm thinking that I have so many in my story, that they're all starting to feel the same or one-dimensional. Giselle is just like my version of Pirlipat, Albrecht is coming off as a younger Drosselmeyer, and Nathaniel is dumb as a box. I've got nine well-developed characters, four main (Clarisse, John, Drosselmeyer, Svetlana,) and five supporting characters, (Fritz/Freddy, The Snow Queen, Ivan/Mouseking, Lorelei/Rosamund/Sugarplum, and Pirlipat.) They all fit nicely into archetypes, which will work in my favor. I may just end up dropping everyone else, besides the obvious family members and such, and starting fresh.
Even then, my plots are messy. Coppelia and Nutcracker work well together, with similar themes and details, thanks to Hoffmann, but Giselle and Swan Lake aren't. I only have scenes for them, and they aren't even that fleshed out. I liked Odette and Rick Siegfried, though, so I'll tuck them aside for now.
Anyway, in order for those to work, I'd have to develop two magical species from scratch, and I'm not up for that. I'd prefer to work off of more familiar things. Hopefully this would help my worldbuilding, if I can focus more on magic, technology, and geography.
I'll be rooting through my story graveyard and seeing what jumps out, not to mention doing more research on other stories (yeah!) and copyright laws and such (ugh.)
Anyway, for those who want to help, here's what's staying:
All of sudden, I've got a huge deadline looming in the distant future. Disney has announced that they want to make a live-action version of the Nutcracker, and they want it to be their next Alice in Wonderland. Kind of pisses me off, but that's a story for another time with a lot within that. I'm dreading it. However, people will have a greater interest in the story of the Nutcracker, so if I want to get my work noticed, that's the time to do it, before everyone else starts jumping on the bandwagon. I've already found three other novel versions of the story, so I want to get this done quickly, and I want it done well.
I'm at a block in terms of developing major aspects of my story. While several small details are falling in place, some key elements will not be going anywhere. I'm already seeing the signs. Thus, I'm wondering if I should adjust some of the my other plots, and keep Nutcracker and Coppelia, since they are most well-rounded and fit best together.
With my characters, I'm thinking that I have so many in my story, that they're all starting to feel the same or one-dimensional. Giselle is just like my version of Pirlipat, Albrecht is coming off as a younger Drosselmeyer, and Nathaniel is dumb as a box. I've got nine well-developed characters, four main (Clarisse, John, Drosselmeyer, Svetlana,) and five supporting characters, (Fritz/Freddy, The Snow Queen, Ivan/Mouseking, Lorelei/Rosamund/Sugarplum, and Pirlipat.) They all fit nicely into archetypes, which will work in my favor. I may just end up dropping everyone else, besides the obvious family members and such, and starting fresh.
Even then, my plots are messy. Coppelia and Nutcracker work well together, with similar themes and details, thanks to Hoffmann, but Giselle and Swan Lake aren't. I only have scenes for them, and they aren't even that fleshed out. I liked Odette and Rick Siegfried, though, so I'll tuck them aside for now.
Anyway, in order for those to work, I'd have to develop two magical species from scratch, and I'm not up for that. I'd prefer to work off of more familiar things. Hopefully this would help my worldbuilding, if I can focus more on magic, technology, and geography.
I'll be rooting through my story graveyard and seeing what jumps out, not to mention doing more research on other stories (yeah!) and copyright laws and such (ugh.)
Anyway, for those who want to help, here's what's staying:
- The setting of Cockaigne (Look up Schlaraffenland, Cuckoo-land, or Toyland for variations.)
- Clarisse/Clara, John/Hans, Drosselmeyer, and Svetlana
- Fritz/Freddy, Pirlipat, Lorelei/Rosamund, Ivan, and The Snow Queen.
- Themes/Symbols of magic, dolls and toys, types of love and heartbreak, death, and time
- Fae races
- The Nutcracker, Coppelia, and all the things within those
Thigns I'll be dumping/setting aside for now:
- Giselle, including the characters and wilis
- Swan Lake, including the characters and the fictional species for that.
- Heavy emphasis on ballet and the seasons
Any ideas you want to throw my way? Favorite fairy tales? Etc.?
''Leaving'' DeviantArt
I haven't been active here for a while, but that's only part of the reason why I'm "leaving" this site. To be clear, I am not deactivating my account or putting all my deviations in storage; however, I will not upload anything new, give llamas/badges, or reply to comments. I may check in (about once or twice a month) on my friends and certain tags, but that's about it. This is a choice I've debated since April 2021 at least, and was cemented when I finally changed my username to differ from my other social media handles. Multiple concerns led me to this decision. I've had this account for years, and there are old works and comments that embarrass me. While I have control over my gallery, it'd be impossible for me to go and edit every comment I've ever made on every deviation I've seen; it no longer represents who I am and who I strive to be. If I get published someday, I could get into serious legal trouble if people track down and make connections between my works and the fandoms
Camp NaNoWriMo, April 2021
Okay, so I’m setting this up pretty late (like, the end of day one,) but I’m trying to make my announcement/plan for doing Camp NaNoWriMo. It’s been really difficult for me to write with the general state of the world right now, but writing makes me happy. I put a lot of pressure on myself, my writing, my stories, so I forget how happy it does make me. Sitting down and turning on my laptop is always the most difficult part, but once I get started, I get going. I just need to set a time, everyday, to sit down and write for an hour or two. There will be some new factors playing into NaNoWriMo this time around: I recently got a part-time job at the local library, so I’ll have to balance that out since I’ve usually only done NaNoWriMo when I have no other commitments. I have three, six-hour long shifts each week, and my hours will range from 9:30 am to 9 pm, so it’s quite reasonable. I also want to try going to bed before 2 am, and waking up at 9:30 am. That’ll just help me be more
Ch-Ch-Changes...
Hey guys, it's been a while. I've finished school, acknowledged that I'm still directionless in life, and failed to write much (if any) of my Nutcracker novel! Woohoo! Recently, I've been considering going through my social media and making some changes to appear more professional. Therefore, I may go through my gallery and re-arrange and delete things. I'll probably get rid of a lot of the content in my deviation descriptions, since people have stolen some of my ideas (and I don't mean "got the same idea," I mean "stolen") and I'm wary of that, especially with "Nutcracker" and "Renaissance." I might also delete deviations relating to those; some pieces are so old, they no longer "represent" the story, or they spoil something. However, I do have some things I really want to draw. I'd like to get lineups/full concepts for characters of all my stories, color variations, and more speedpaints. Once I develop a schedule and get out of my transitional depression, I'll be more creative.
Hey! long time, no see, right? Haha...anyway.
I had some Tangled fanart, since I got pulled feet-first into the series, but my scanner at home is terrible. My phone camera doesn’t work well either, since the lighting in my house is also terrible, so I’m stuck with shadows on every picture and no way to cleanly edit them out. I also want to draw some character lineups for my stories, but same issue there. We’ll see what I’ll be able to do in the future, but at least I can color them on my laptop decently enough, even if they’re just flats. So I have no art yet this summer, but I do have some (good for me, debatably good and/or bad for you,) news! For your information, though this is likely obvious, Coronavirus has sapped me of my energy and drive, so I’ve barely done anything this summer. I also had a big surprise that I was hoping to finish by Christmas, but that's unlikely. I am a massive perfectionist who demands the best of myself, which means I often push myself twice as far as I should. Like, hey, you ran one mile! Good
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Cutting out the rest and saving them for a later project would work better in your favor. So it's good you realize this sooner than later. Sometimes too many charaters will cause to over whelm the plot that you want.
The problem with me suggesting any favorite fairy tales is that the ones I like aren't very well known and may give you the same problem you have with Swan Lake. Hans Christan Anderson' The Nightingale and the Grimm's All Fur (a verant of Donkey Skin). So I wouldn't recommend those two unless you are actually familiar with those stories (the other one of Anderson is the Little Mermaid, but that's been done to death I'm aware.)
Maybe if you just play with finding inspiration that has similar themes to the Nutcracker to play off what you already have. That's what I have done with some ideas in the past to recreate the idea. Instead of trying to mash things that don't make sense, find references that are similar but played with a different angle.
The problem with me suggesting any favorite fairy tales is that the ones I like aren't very well known and may give you the same problem you have with Swan Lake. Hans Christan Anderson' The Nightingale and the Grimm's All Fur (a verant of Donkey Skin). So I wouldn't recommend those two unless you are actually familiar with those stories (the other one of Anderson is the Little Mermaid, but that's been done to death I'm aware.)
Maybe if you just play with finding inspiration that has similar themes to the Nutcracker to play off what you already have. That's what I have done with some ideas in the past to recreate the idea. Instead of trying to mash things that don't make sense, find references that are similar but played with a different angle.