Sometimes you wonder where things go, how come the ideas, the truth is that it occurs equally in all accounts, but this may count as an example. The process of creating Mushrooms, the story I wrote for the Challenge X, was quite long and complicated, here you can see the lap that gave him a story that really is quite simple.
When I saw the X Challenge rules did not seem very complicated, just had to include in the story's themes of lust, gluttony and sloth, appeared much easier than the challenge of multiple end-IX. We had three months to write the story, it seemed long enough, but in the end things are not so simple.
I found it very difficult to get the three themes in the story, every idea I ever had was one that escaped me and there was no way into or, if he succeeded, he looked very forced. At first I thought to relate lust with greed, it seemed easier, but when trying to put the lazy in history and nothing adds up. I wanted to write something fancy, and I tried, I raised several stories that I have developed but I mention it in one of them was the germ of what became the Fifth. It would be a story of a group of thieves who came to steal in a palace where a banquet was being developed and greed would be personified by a quiet and innocent young teenager that he realized what was happening around him.
All stories raised within the fantasy always clashed against laziness. The characters were determined, did things they served, not jibe me lazy to put a character into any of the stories I could think of. I turned over two months, starting with stories that were in the middle, I thought about retiring Challenge and do not participate and then one day, I decided to make one last attempt before giving up. I put aside all attempts he had made and decided to turn around and start from scratch.
The problem with that clashed time and again was laziness, so I decided from there, the protagonist had to be lazy and laziness would prevent him from doing anything. It occurred to me a very boring story, I came to write about a girl lying on the lounge watching TV, I thought about going to a party where he lived greedy and lustful moments but I could not get off the couch. This story had stuck the three themes and more or less forced there were none but it was so boring! No I got to throw it away, I left it aside if I could not think otherwise. It was a good story but at least it was something, could participate.
I got the idea from time. Do not get to do something out of laziness. Scarlet O'Hara remembered sitting on the stairs, saying that "I would think about tomorrow." And I knew the ending I wanted to give the history and the phrase that wanted to close the account.
was the end, an end that I liked, so I went back to start again, with that final in mind and the issue of laziness. Now I had to find a development that would lead to that end, development that would allow me to put the greed and lust and it was interesting enough. I remembered a micro Manchi I had read about a woman who murders her husband Last night I dreamed I killed you , that seemed a good subject, and instead of slit her throat with a knife, was poisoned so he could get greed without any problem.
had the plot, a woman who wants to poison her husband but that fails to do so lazy. I liked the idea and he was spinning, I thought more people would try connecting it with the sweet gluttony, so we wanted to avoid that, I thought of meals y. .. remembered Agrippina poisoned Claudius with mushrooms. That's when the story took shape in my head, the Roman setting was perfect for what I wanted to tell, and I also knew that the story had to start with that word: Mushrooms.
At first I considered making a historical account with the same Claudius and Agrippina, but did not dare, just a few weeks remaining to the deadline, I had time to properly documented and, fearing to put Patones fat, I decided to invent a Roman family. I remembered the young man that first story that I started and it transformed into a Roman tribune, I called Fifth and Quintus Curtius, a writer I do not like anything and Marcio by the god Mars.
Sabina was the first name that popped into my head when I started writing about it. Sometimes I put temporary name while writing to avoid wasting time with that and then change, but Sabina loved me, he could not imagine her with another name so he stayed with the improvised. Sabina decided to come to Greece to give an oriental touch to make exotic no longer be Roman and that his attitude was seen by those around him as an alien feature.
meter was missing from lust, from the beginning had wanted to relate the lust for greed, but the scenario that had been raised, I do not block too. Sabina had to be distant, cold and that did not fit with someone who is passionate, lust could focus on Fifth, but would then just one character trait, not an important part of the story. Then I remembered an episode of Criminal Minds in which a psychopathic sexual pleasure obtained by not committing crimes, but seeing how others committed. Can I get sexual pleasure to see someone eat? Could be considered a kind of fetish, I suppose, but really do not know if something exists in reality. I also recalled an episode of Star Trek , where a race considered alien food and sex in the same way as a taboo that should be practiced in private. Why not relate if they were the same thing? And perfectly matched the character of Sabina and the idea that I had done it.
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and themes, characters, and the hardest part for me was the end.
I decided to create a structure based on three points of view and Marcia was born there. Quinto did not suspect anything was happening around him, because it was the most noticeable feature of the character and the innocence intended the reader to sympathize with him and did not wish his death. Sabina could not say anything clearly, because if you lose too close to the reader that air Lango, and had managed to give away, needed a third person to help me move the reader's suspicions that the mark to distract and surprise that the final result . Maybe I was wrong to bring this third character was what I criticized in the comments of the Challenge, I think the story would not have worked well if they have been removed, the need, but to get three points of view in a very short story can problematic because there is insufficient space for all three are well developed and the changes can be very rough for the reader, puede sentirse confuso; de todas formas a posteriori he pensado en ello y no he encontrado otra forma mejor para expresar lo que quería.
Otro personaje que me criticaron mucho fue la inclusión de Emilio. Emilio era simplemente una escusa para que Sabina tuviera un motivo para matar a Quinto, el motivo tenía que estar centrado en la lujuria porque no quería que el tema tuviera menos importancia que los otros dos, si la lujuria no hubiera sido uno de los temas, es posible que hubiera buscado otro motivo distinto, pero quería que fuera parte importante de la trama. Debí haber desarrollado mejor esa parte de la trama, quizás mencionar a Emilio desde el principio, que no apareciera de pronto cerca ya del end of story.
The story is very simple, I do not have anything important, then I focused on the characters, the story is built around them, taking Sabina central axis, while the rest revolves around it. Also took care setting everything I could, the reader had to believe you're strolling through a Roman villa, I think that yes I did. Another point I scored a lot is that everything had to be very obvious, the reader had to know from the beginning that was the story of a crime, because it was the way to the final was surprised to see that this crime did not happen. The ending was the part that rewrote, sometimes seemed too abrupt, sometimes too long. I think there is a very sharp change in viewpoint here, but even though I tried not got soften. The final sentence, as I said before, is a tribute to Gone With the Wind.
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