Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

--What is your most recent POV character’s greatest hope?

Kevin Owens once more, and... oooh. He's got a conscious one (winning back the highest title in wrestling) and an unconscious one (having his former best friend trust him again).

And it's Kevin because I don't think I got any writing done at all this week and I'm really sad about it. I got a fair amount of nonfiction writing done under a fair amount of time pressure (entirely arbitrary pressure from a deadline I set myself!), but between working on that and being at my parents' house all week... it hasn't been very good for writing at all. I hope it's been better for you! Let me know what's up!

Comments

[me_ya_ri]

Hey, I missed this. Humm, let's see. I finished the last of the 3 novels in 3 months (and the scene I was worrying about turned out to be a breeze because the girls just took it in stride. The high points were Padma breaking down over her parent's long-ago rejection of her (which included holding her at gunpoint while burning all her childhood belongings, long religious rants about how she was going to hell, and tearing every single childhood photo of her out of their photo albums, so, you know, very tough thing to get over) and the moment where the bigot at work got fired and they both got promoted and thus got to be open about their relationship with each other.

I'm super happy with how it turned out.

Now I'm working on a new novella (that was supposed to be a short story) and hmmm. Tough question. Caron is mentally ill, anxiety and paranoia. I think her greatest hope right now is just that her (asexual and mentally ill) girlfriend won't get sick of constantly reassuring her that everything is okay. Caron's goals in life are very small, poor thing. I'm hoping by the time I go through the holidays leading up to Valentine's they'll both be doing better. I'm on Halloween and they're already improved so that's good.

Hope you get back at your fiction, sweetie! Not being able to get to it is really hard.

[mithen]

Caron's goals in life are very small, poor thing.

Oh, that's a big shift for you in some ways! A lot of your recent protagonists have had some really sweeping goals. I like the shift and the contrast!

Hope you get back at your fiction, sweetie! Not being able to get to it is really hard.

It can be almost physically painful! I got about a thousand words written today, which is not a really SATISFYING amount, but a lot better than nothing!

[navaan]

For a change, I'm NOT writing Tony. XD (Although it's rather temporary, because I have another Iron Man Noir draft to finish... XP)

I'm writing Diana POV right now - DCEU version. I guess her greatest hope is that humanity will actually achieve peace. This is the world during WWII now and she really needs to hold on to that hope.

Also, she's following hints that there might be a rouge Amazon about, so she might have the secret hope of news of her home.

I've been doing ... a lot of writing. My health has been all over the place in recent month, and that has been the only thing coming between me and words. I finished two fics for an Anthology last week and I'm very proud of one and okay with the other, so that is an accomplishment.

[mithen]

I'm writing Diana POV right now - DCEU version. I guess her greatest hope is that humanity will actually achieve peace. This is the world during WWII now and she really needs to hold on to that hope.

I FINALLY SAW WONDER WOMAN! It was great, and I'm so happy to hear you're filling in some of those times between the movie--she must have had a LOT of adventures that we never found out about, don't you think?

Sorry to hear your health hasn't been so great and I'm hoping it stabilizes! But I'm glad to hear at least you've been getting a lot of writing done. I am very, very stuck on writing smut right now, alas. I think I might need to switch to something LEGO Batman based as a change of pace. I thought about trying to write porn for LEGO Batman but it quickly became far, far too silly an idea. I'm sure it's out there, though!

[navaan]

Yeah, I know it came out only recently in Japan, because friends kept tweeting me. :D I hope I can write a bit more Diana this year. The movie was so inspiring and I'm enjoying WW comics right now too.

I'm better now.

I think I might need to switch to something LEGO Batman based as a change of pace.

Ha! That sounds like fun!!

I thought about trying to write porn for LEGO Batman but it quickly became far, far too silly an idea. I'm sure it's out there, though!

I'm sure it is. XD

[luciferxdamien]

Ahaha. I have just been so busy I completely forgot to reply to this.

Ah, questions like these get a little difficult for me when I mostly am writing porn and motivations change so drastically from fic to fic. XD If it were my original stuff, that would be much easier, buuuut I haven't touched those characters in eons.

I have been writing everyday, not a whole lot, sometimes just a sentence, but I've been liking what I'm writing and I'm being consistent! =D I've really been so busy with making costume pieces, but I'm shocked I've been able to get some writing done, too! It's a really good feeling.

[mithen]

I actually just finished some writing (Lego Batman!) so I'm happy!

I definitely can see your point that motivations change from fic to fic--it's been interesting to do this and to realize that a lot of the time the answers are quite different in different stories even though the basic character is the same...

[prince0froses]

Rorden is not a man who hopes highly. He's long ago given up any hope to be loved and have a family, or have a home again, even though those are his deepest desires he knows he'll never have them. The home he wants will never be free again, and any other would be inadequate. And he thinks himself unlovable. So his highest hope is to continue to survive, to do good in the world, and to have a warm bed at night and warm mug of coffee in the morning on as many days as possible.

Sian hopes desperately that Kemaer is actually serious this time and will stay and love him sincerely and forever. And kind of hates himself for having such a foolish, juvenile dream about someone who abandoned him originally. He also hopes (futilely) that these damned magic powers will just go away.

Mary hopes for her vengeance, and that her vengeance will not turn her into a monster. She hopes to find a new home somewhere, with people to care for her and to care for in return after it's all over, but at the very least to Not Hurt People with her rage.

[mithen]

(Awwwwww shit to past!me about Kevin's greatest hope being that Sami will trust him again).

Rorden is not a man who hopes highly. He's long ago given up any hope to be loved and have a family, or have a home again, even though those are his deepest desires he knows he'll never have them.

BUT HE DOES FIND LOVE, RIGHT? I'm remembering that right from your recaps of the more recent story, aren't I? It's very weird to be approaching this kind of backwards and I'm really sorry I didn't have a chance to read these sooner! I'm weirdly anal about responding to comments in the Correct Order, and that means when I fall way behind it can be a total disaster...