Evening - Outline

2009.04.21

I've mad a Faustian deal with myself: I can write a page or so of a new story I'm interested in so long as I first outline two pages! OK, so that's not very Faustian, but it is a way of getting myself to make progress on this story.

2009.02.19

Gaaah! Only managed 2 chapters this time. Furthermore, because I'm lazy, I'm posting the whole outline here.

• Page 1
  • Introduce Erbert
  • Introduce Xema
  • Introduce W^3
  • Establish Xema as jealous
  • Establish Hogwort's & student survival
• Page 2
  • Introduce Darth Sidious
  • Darth Sidious is very unforgiving.
  • Introduce Glenda
  • Introduce Yog
  • Yog is a puddle of slime
• Page 3
  • Switch from 3rd person to first person (ARGH)
  • Yog talks like a valley girl
  • Yog's homelife
• Page 4
  • Yog visits Glenda
  • Yog makes Glenda's secretary nervous
  • Yog arrives at Darth's class
• Page 5
  • W^3's class
  • Yog meets Erbert
  • Xema is jealous
  • W3 disposes of Hamster and Grendel
  • W3 is fond of disposing of students
• Page 6
  • Yog looks at the stars
  • Yog runs into Erbert
  • Are the stars right?
  • Aaaand now the punchline: no
  • Spoof of MPatHG music bit
  • And in comes Xema
  • Establish more of a reason for Xema to be jealous
  • Establish that Erbert thinks Yog is interesting
  • Xema tries to kill Yog
  • Establish that Yog is very hard to kill
• Page 7 - the Match
  • Establish wizards vs. barbarians
  • Establish that wizards are getting killed (ooh a pun)
  • Establish that the teachers think this is a good thing(tm)
  • Ball? There's a ball?
  • Yog speaks up and gets sent in.
  • Yog can't be killed with a sword
  • The barb runs off like a leeeeetle gurl.
  • Silly bit: "I'll save you" "OH GOD NO!"
  • Yog fries a bunch of barbs and becomes the hero of the day
  • Establish that Yog is good with magic
  • Establish that Yog is the unoffical class hero
  • Establish that Yog is at odds with the teachers
• Page 8 - parents day
  • Establish that the parents are trying to get rid of the kids
  • Yog's parents are glad to see him/her/it
  • Glenda is still good
  • Erbert's parents are not at all happy that their son has not "graduated."
  • Establish another motive for the teachers to do in the students
• Page 9 - Exam Cram
  • Do good...or else...
  • The other students have given up hope
  • Yog meets Erbert in the library.
  • Establish Erbert as an emo
  • Erbert and Yog share an interest in poetry
  • Establish that Yog can form extra limbs and eye-stalks
  • Aaand Xema catches them
• Page 10 - the Field Trip
  • The class is visiting a temple
  • Idea: Have the students chained together so they can't escape.
  • Idea: Give a couple more W3 quotes.
  • W3's plan to waste some more students.
  • Uncle Astrothoth
  • Yog comes upon Xema & Erbert
  • Xema discovers a slime's weakness: fire
• Page 11 - The Field Trip continued
  • Yog fills in Erbert about Uncle Astroth
  • Yog and Erbert share a romantic walk
  • Slimes don't have spouses, humans can't split...how lonely.
  • Erbert tries to kiss Yog and burns his mouth
  • Xema is the class hero
• Page 12
  • Yog worries about how to break it off with Erbert
  • Yog visits Glenda for relationship advice
  • Glenda swears
  • Glenda tries to get Yog out of her office but Yog plays a cheap shot.
  • Yog points out that if she lets Erbert down hard, the boy could kill himself.
  • Glenda tells Yog to let Erbert down hard.
• Page 13 - Heart to Organelle Talk
• Yog tells Erbert that she doesn't love him
• Erbert tells Yog he doesn't care if she loves him or not
• Xema is moving up as a class hero
• Erbert fondles Yog
• Page 14 - Glenda Formulates a Plan
  • Yog visits Glenda again
  • Glenda is upset
    • Too many students are surviving
    • She will make history in a bad way if more don't die.
  • Glenda tries to get Yog to kill Herb or Xema
  • Yog demures
  • Glenda hits on the idea of setting Yog up

2009.02.11

And here are another 5 scenes. I'm getting there...slowly but...slowly.

Note that this uses my whacky "pages" which are basically what I write in one day. Each page is supposed to be at least one "manuscript page" or about 250 words.

2009.02.09

I had wanted to start coming up with the outline sooner. I really did. But it's here now, so...whatever.

At any rate, the goal with this is bring some sort of order to the bass-ackwards style of writing that I use. Starting at a very basic level, I am simply writing up what happens in each of the segments that I wrote in preparation to try and make the whole thing cohesive.

Order...to my writing...

Yes friends, this is why I put it off so long.

At any rate, here are the first 5 pages. More to follow soon.