28th June 2006, 12:37 PM
One of the things that I decided going into my latest rewrite, is that not enough bad things happened to Kara. She basically is just carefree and does what she wants and so on. The story as it used to be would have her going off on some grand aventure and leaving Earth behind because she could. Well, that's not very interesting, right? Let's spice things up a bit.
Okay, now the Martian goverment is shutting the Earth down because it isn't profitable anymore. Entire cities [ruined cities, by the way] are being dismantled and the parts are being shipped to Mars. Anyone left once this ends will be able to go to Mars, for a price of course and not a very cheap one. But that's okay, because Kara has ten thousands credits stashed away, so she can leave whenever she wants to.
Well, looks like her last contract job ended in the destruction of a state-of-the-art research lab. Despite not being her fault at all, her entire savings are confiscated by the government. Now she's broke. And did I mention that the city she's attached to as a member of the Explorers Guild hasn't got anything valuable left in it? Bad times indeed. She wanders through the city for a while and finally finds herself at the top of the tower she uses for scoping out the city. In a bout of deep despair she almost KILLS HERSELF.
I'm writing this thing, but it surprised even me that something like this would happen in my story. I didn't intend it at all, but it got written down anyway. It just felt like something the character would do in a time like that. I still don't know how to feel about, but I'm not going to change it.
I was listening to this song by Ray Lynch called Quandra and it fit the mood exactly. It may have even contributed to how far I took that scene.
Weird stuff really, writing.
Okay, now the Martian goverment is shutting the Earth down because it isn't profitable anymore. Entire cities [ruined cities, by the way] are being dismantled and the parts are being shipped to Mars. Anyone left once this ends will be able to go to Mars, for a price of course and not a very cheap one. But that's okay, because Kara has ten thousands credits stashed away, so she can leave whenever she wants to.
Well, looks like her last contract job ended in the destruction of a state-of-the-art research lab. Despite not being her fault at all, her entire savings are confiscated by the government. Now she's broke. And did I mention that the city she's attached to as a member of the Explorers Guild hasn't got anything valuable left in it? Bad times indeed. She wanders through the city for a while and finally finds herself at the top of the tower she uses for scoping out the city. In a bout of deep despair she almost KILLS HERSELF.
I'm writing this thing, but it surprised even me that something like this would happen in my story. I didn't intend it at all, but it got written down anyway. It just felt like something the character would do in a time like that. I still don't know how to feel about, but I'm not going to change it.
I was listening to this song by Ray Lynch called Quandra and it fit the mood exactly. It may have even contributed to how far I took that scene.
Weird stuff really, writing.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.