kasihya: autopsied corpse of Will Graham from NBC's Hannibal (Default)
I read The Hunger Games today, and was mildly horrified to discover that (a) I write like Suzanne Collins, and (b) it is an insanely obtrusive style, and I'm not even as good as she is. Coming on the heels of rereading The Eleventh Hour (Time War Remix) and discovering that my writing is incredibly dry and confusing at times. Of course, it's good to be humbled, but anyway, the point of this exercise - aside from making me not feel useless - was to try to balance out my [[dialogue][movement description][dialogue][thought process][dialogue][dialogue]][repeat sequence ad nauseum] formula with some ... well ... variety.

I have a feeling that my attempts to write a multiethnic, mixed-class Twelve Apostles is going to backfire horribly.

riley meeting electra and vance in an alternate-verse )

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according to john - the ant parable )

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according to john - john and jamie's family issues )
kasihya: autopsied corpse of Will Graham from NBC's Hannibal (nanowrimo)
This is just an expansion of that 'Jesus in Manhattan' thing I did. No plans to actually turn this into a story, but if I did, it would be a novel entitled According to John, with him as a POV-character, and these are the updates on the characters who have made an appearance in doodles so far:

God — Mother — the Creator of the universe, who set it up to evolve like a mousetrap and now sends her daughter Johanna around to different sentient species in the universe in order to nudge them along the path to happiness without interfering with free will

Jesus — Johanna — 35 years old; daughter of illegal Ecuadorian immigrants; unemployed volunteer at a food pantry

Peter — Patricia — 47 years old; white transsexual woman, dentist, divorced biological father of three children

John — John — 17 years old; Afro-American teenager who got kicked out of his home for being gay

James — Jamie — 25 years old; John’s older half-sister, of whom he is none too fond because she’s the Golden Girl and the first person in their family to go to college

Mathew — Matt — 27 years old; white geek who went to college for video game animation, but currently works at a comic book store for lack of any actual job

Judas — Judith — 37 years old; Jamaican manager of the human resources department at a small but not unimportant business