I am SO glad you're back!

[Rokket]

Thank you! That was a really nice comic render, Robin. And I don't have an Uzi, but I do have an M-14. I can shoot through 6 pirates if they are inline. But I hope I never have to. You only have pirates to worry about if you sail in certain waters, which we don't. And since the US Navy ships have attacked and sunk pirates, they tend to leave grey hulled ships alone. They can't tell the difference between us and a combatant ship that can blow them out of the water.

John's perceptions have been colored by his life. His grandfather and father were tough on him growing up. Think back to how is father responded when Alex brought him home after the fight when he was ten years old. Not what a normal father would do. I know I would be a lot more concerned if my boy came home with a fat lip. But he knows his father is a powerful man. He is aware that his family basically put Marysville on the map. If it weren't for the Forester family, they would probably not have grown past the original population count of 25,000 to the 1.5 million that live there at present. John knows his family has power and influence. One of the other things I am going to write into the story is a scene where John's father flexes his power. You'll have to read it to find out what he does. Needless to say, it has a lasting impact on John. He still loves his father and refuses to believe that anyone in his family could be a bad person. But this story is all about finding out that things are not always as they seem; or how you think they should be.

 

[Rokket]

The second draft is going to be much darker. I am mapping out the remainder of the story right now. I have been free writing up to this point, but I have to make sure that things go in the direction I intended to. I just deleted about 4 pages of writing I did, because it added two scenes into the story that I didn't really want to be there. I have a specific flow in mind, and I was quickly getting off course. The event that Golden Girl had been warning him about is imminent, and he's about to lose her and a couple other women in his life, but not to death. He will get them back. But he is going to have to fight with everything he has and is to win this one; without the aid of an omnisionic. There is still a question of whether or not he will have Blaze with him. I am leaning on yes, but we don't know yet. She will still lose control of her powers and have to leave. I haven't decided when that will happen. It might be at the end of the story, which will lead into the second novel, or it might happen right before the event. The story will drive that point.

Oh yeah... remember I said on the other forum that he falls in love with Blaze? That is still going to happen. But what about Bobbi Medina, you might be asking? Yet something else that you will have to read to find out...

 

[quietrob]

So the last draft you published here has been changed? That's cool. It's a draft so it's supposed to be changed to something better. Don't fall in with any particular art piece thinking you can't change it. The same goes for the written word. Add or delete as you see fit so the story flows properly. Yet I say be like Einstein who found the answer to his most famous theorem in papers he had written years earlier. Geez, you know you're smart when you come with answers that you'll need twenty years later and you didn't even know it. Don't delete. Cull. I have a fragment file. It contains fragments of stories that I have written. Some have really cool scenes in them but it just didn't work or I came up with something better. I can still go back to that file for idea's or bring it back in different scene, massaged so that it feels better. What matters most is that you finish the story and that most of all, you move on to the next one. Get that body of work to become a body of work. Time goes by in the blink of an eye. We both still have time to become immortal.

Geez I digressed. The event. The one that Golden Girl has warned him about? Have you finished got the basic outline for what will happen?

Villians. Aren't they just the worst people and almost the most fun to write about? I feel low and dirty as I write for them but also it's liberating to let the dark side we all have go free. No dark side? Ever kill a bug and not feel remorse? You might not early in life but that could change with age. Besides, a villian is never a villian to themselves.

OmniSionic - Omni meaning all. Scionic meaning ? I found many words that were close and would give the second half of the word different meanings but not that root itself. Hook me up, rokket and give me a clue.

 

[Terre]

I assumed he meant psionic.
Good advice on the cull file.

 

[quietrob]

You might be right but we're talking powers here and to think of a new one is something special. It would be cool beans if rokket added to the Super Power Lexicon!

And thanks! Keeping a fragment file is just something I do. It's totally against the five rules of writing but it works for me. I mean, how many renders do we have but never use?

 

[Rokket]

I assumed he meant psionic.
Good advice on the cull file.

Yeah, I was writing too fast and misspelled it. Oops.

 

[Rokket]

I don't have a cull file. Usually ideas I have are good enough to keep, or so bad they have to go. But I do have 20 spec screenplays I can dig into and see how I fleshed out certain ideas. I have never released them and probably won't, unless all the stars align and this story gets the attention of a major movie studio that wants to produce it. Yeah, that'll happen.

 

[Rokket]

So I sent my wife a text this morning:
"I am sorry I didn't call you last night. I got distracted doing my laundry because I somehow turned a pair of white socks pink."

She sent a text back saying I was silly and she understands.

I will have a render to put up here later. I have a pretty cool WIP I started on when I was going to make my hero just a normal billionaire in a costume. He had vehicles and his own version of a Helicarrier (think Avengers), which was much smaller, and pretty much unmanned. I was reworking the final act of my story and got burned out so I went back to my WIP files.

 

[quietrob]

Mixing red and white will do that every time. I think sweetheart did it intentionally one time to get rid some of my undies that had seen better days. You know, it really only seems to happen with those two colors (or non color). I've never heard of mixing yellow and blue and getting green anything.

Let's see that render. I'm working on some stuff with more shadows. My main character is immune to poison the second time she experiences, not the first. She didn't know that or she wouldn't have ended up chain to a wall in participating in a Pit Fight.

 

[Rokket]

That's the funny thing. I didn't put anything red in the machine... but someone else had. I guess it was stuck to the top of the drum and I didn't see it. It was a red t-shirt...


The render is coming. I am still modeling the vehicle. I am working on the material zones. I will have something to show you by tomorrow my time. It's about 8:08pm Monday here.

Happy Labor Day to those able to celebrate.... no more wearing white.

 

[Terre]

Good morning.
Looking forward to the render and glad your wife is so understanding. I've met some women who aren't and their husbands have problems as a result.

 

[Rokket]

Good morning.
Looking forward to the render and glad your wife is so understanding. I've met some women who aren't and their husbands have problems as a result.

Yeah, a friend of mine got out of doing laundry by washing one of his wife's sweaters in hot water and then throwing it in the drier. It shrunk up to infant size. He claims he did it on purpose, but let's face it: men and laundry don't mix unless he is a bachelor. I usually don't mess up my laundry, this time was a fluke. I usually check the machine to make sure it's empty. This time I got in a hurry and paid the price.

 

[Miss B]

. . . but let's face it: men and laundry don't mix unless he is a bachelor.

Well Rokket, my dad was unusual in that respect. He did the grocery shopping when the supermarket opened early in the morning (while mom was eating breakfast), and he did the laundry as well.

That said, he was about the only man I know who did those things by himself, without my mom having to beg him to do it.

 

[quietrob]

Pinging because I totally didn't get the alert or maybe...just maybe I might've missed it.

Miss B. I was going to list the duties on my Man list but I have a feeling your father was amazing.

 

[Rokket]

I can't comment on my duties at home. I don't have any. We have two maids, and if I am doing things, they would sit around doing nothing. And I am only home twice per year, for a month at at time. Mama says it's my relaxation time, I don't get a honey-do list. Before we moved to the Philippines, we shared all the household chores. I did the dishes, I shopped and I did the laundry; the same as my wife. I also cleaned the house, vacuumed, took out the trash. I never had to be asked either. But that was then, and I won't do that stuff now, but only because I don't have to...

 

[Miss B]

Miss B. I was going to list the duties on my Man list but I have a feeling your father was amazing.

With respect to helping mom "around the house", yeah he was unique. Most men I know consider that "woman's work", and wouldn't be caught dead doing it. ~shakes head~

 

[Terre]

My husband does help. Amusingly he has been teaching me to cook as his father taught him but what I learned was baking. LOL
His experiments almost always work because he literally cooks by smell. Most of mine fail.

 

[Miss B]

My father didn't really cook much, other than to make himself breakfast (hot cereal), because when he was still working, he left the house before mom got up. In fact, after he retired, he even had cereal ready when I got up for work, at least until I decided I preferred cold cereal instead.

 

[Rokket]

My spaghetti is famous. When I am cooking it (I start at 9AM with the sauce) people start showing up from as far as 20 miles away. I always make enough to feed a small army because I know it will all be gone.

And I am a terrific baker...

 

[Satira Capriccio]

That was my dad. He'd start the spaghetti sauce early in the morning and it would simmer all day. After a great many years doing the same, I finally switched to Ragu. But now that I just cook for me, I skip the sauce altogether.

My dad did the cooking and grocery shopping. Mostly because he was home by 3 pm, and my mom wasn't until after 5:30 pm or later. Sometimes, much later as she was an escrow closer, and a lot of people couldn't make it in until after 5 pm.