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The1Russter |
What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 20 2010, 7:24 PM EDT
Now that my epic long story REUNION is finished, I've had some people ask me what I will be planning for the future. Good question. The immediate future will be catching up on some unfinished home repairs. I've got some new electrical wire to install and a window to repair. But that isn't what you want to hear. You want to know what I'll be writing.Reunion was a long story divided into 3 parts of 13, 18, and 11 chapters each of 8000 to 14000+ words each. A very ambitious project for a first time author. I do have in mind a series of sequels. Each more of a novella or small novel of approximately 20 chapters each and each novella will have it's own theme. I've already worked out a series of titles and I am working what each story will be for each title. I don't know if I will include time travel as I want to focus on trying to stop Judgment Day despite the feeling or knowledge that it is inevitable. It is up to the characters to find those behind it and stop them before it is too late. If they can. 3 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you? |
meanoldmoe |
1. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 20 2010, 10:17 PM EDT
Interesting concept to have a release of a collection of novellas.Stopping JD..... that would be tricky....seems it is always bound to happen sooner or later. Time travel seems to have been used a lot in the terminator universe, toning it down and focusing on the characters would sound better. I think having the characters going off on adventures would be cool to see, esp if it is before JD. Imagine Cam and John needing to travel to exotic places to help track down Greys, or certain hidden research facilities....hmmmm..... would be neat to see how Cam ends up growing and evolving, and John becoming more of the leader he is supposed to be, as well as watching their relationship grow and evolve. Do you find this valuable? |
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The1Russter |
2. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 21 2010, 12:12 AM EDT
Reunion did have a lot of character development, but with the future I can have some of that but in the context of new relationships and even relationships that weren't in the previous story. AS they work to track down the TX and find some way of stopping Sky Net from coming into being, the various characters can go through various relationship throws. Not everything runs smoothly even in the best relationships. J&C have the added pressure of John's ultimate destiny and the fight to stop J-day as well as how their relationship can sustain itself with knowledge to everyone that she is a machine. We already know that Andy is acceptable of it, but i am sure there will be a few jaded fighters who wouldn't like it one bit. Sarah has a new relationship with this other Kyle who is now younger than she is. They will have some relationship issues. Sarah's grown to be a very strong independent woman, the only thing is, she still has got this heart filled with love and pain and suffering. She is a woman of contrasts and that just makes her all that more attractive. There will be a part of her wanting Kyle to help her and another part of her that wants to maintain that self reliance. Sarah will also be having this struggle of letting go of her son. John has come into his own now. he is the leader of this small band of resistance fighters that have successfully fought two battle against Sky Net. On to of that, he is also having a very adult relationship with Cameron. John isn't just her son anymore, but still she can't help but be that tough love mother she's always been. It isn't that she wants to interfere, it's just the letting go that will be hard. I will have to find some way of conveying that without making her into a stereotypical interfering mother. Sarah is anything but stereotypical. Right now i am just working on notes for sequels. I will work on WAD over the summer. Do you find this valuable? |
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meanoldmoe |
3. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 21 2010, 7:15 AM EDT
I think that looking further into C and J's relationship will be interesting. There will be many issues with her being a machine.There will be many that will hate her because of her being a cyborg...this could lead to all sorts of nasty things. Even with Allison inside of her to act as a voice of reason, Cameron may develop fears based on her worrying about not being human enough for John....jealousy may creep up when she sees John talking to another girl. Sarah and Kyle, yep they will have issues too.....he may love her, but she may push him away for fear of losing him. She might think if she gets too close to Kyle, he might end up being killed by a Skynet machine. (again ) Kyle will have his work cut out for him, trying to get Sarah to open up to him, to spend their days together as a couple and not live in constant fear of him being killed. Sarah having to let go of John......we saw part of that in the epilogue. Sarah running to her boy, when he was having his nightmare, only to find Cameron right beside him providing comfort. I can see Sarah still not trusting Cam....something in the back of her mind. I can also see confrontations between the two women over John and his well being. There is also the issue of J and C getting married again......and maybe S and K too? ( I'm not saying right away, but in the foreseeable future ) Do you find this valuable? |
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The1Russter |
4. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 22 2010, 7:12 PM EDT
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Proofreading old chapters of Reunion part 1. Man was I bad at tenses.Thinking of editing things so that John is in future longer than given. Don't know yet. More concerned with fixing bad grammar and bad spelling or typo's. With second word processor to check things, should get better results. Do you find this valuable? |
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meanoldmoe |
5. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 23 2010, 7:20 AM EDT
Why is it you think John needs to spend more time in the future?Do you think the time period for the story itself was short? ( was it like 4 months?) Will you have Allison and John's relationship maybe go slower in the beginning? Do you find this valuable? |
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The1Russter |
6. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 23 2010, 9:21 AM EDT
I just feel that there are opportunities to show where more time has passed between John's arrival and going on that mission to the desert weapon's cache. I also failed to convey the long time it took to walk out to the weapon's cache. I think there are some places I could insert where a day or two has gone by without having to say exactly what happened. I'll know for certain as I begin my post completion proofreads.
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The1Russter |
7. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 8:05 AM EDT
Last night I wrote the first rough draft of what will be the final scenes to the sequel of Reunion. I've settled on the title Resurrection.
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The1Russter |
8. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 12:50 PM EDT
I've settled on a title for my first in a line of sequels to Reunion. I am calling my next story Resurrection. Last night I wrote the final scene for the story and I will write the story moving it to that ending. It will be complex tale of multiple characters moving in their own story arcs, occasionally crossing paths with the other characters, that all lead to one thing. I write that of course with the full knowledge that my brain likes to pull things out of the air when writing that can change the whole focus or direction of a story. So take what I say with a grain of salt. :-)
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The1Russter |
9. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 12:50 PM EDT
Right now I can't tell you anything about the story as it hasn't been written. All I have are some themes and plot elements, and what I've said previously "multiple characters moving in their own story arcs, occasionally crossing paths with the other characters, that all lead to one thing."The story is still in development. To say anything at this point wouldn't be so much as a breech in confidentiality, but a prediction of only the minimalist details. All I can say is that the story will have the return of two characters previously thought gone. And no, one of them is not Kreilley. He is gone for good. We already have a villain, the TX. Only it will be more devious and less personality of Kreilley. I like over the top villains when played subtlety, but this new story will be different. The TX will be more devious in its subversiveness. In fact, I'm thinking of not revealing the TX. We will just see the effects as it pretends to be different individuals to advance the development of Sky Net, leaving it until the end of just who the TX is or has been. Of course the whole story could change as it gets written. My brain tends to pull ideas out of the air that changes a story. Remember Part 1 and Sarah's rescue in the desert by the motorcyclist who turned out to be Cameron. It was originally going to be an adult Savannah. I wrote Cameron instead, and I liked that idea better and that changed everything. So don't nail me down to anything said above. The story could change in an instant. Do you find this valuable? |
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meanoldmoe |
10. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 2:43 PM EDT
" I am calling my next story Resurrection"I am so happy you got the ball rolling on the sequel to Reunion. Did you write the final scene for Reunion the same way? ( way ahead of any other chapters) Does resurrection point to the two characters coming back, or to Skynet's re-birth ? .....I'm waiting for the "No Comment"......lol. Don't forget the "<<evil grin>>" Do you find this valuable? |
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The1Russter |
11. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 4:27 PM EDT
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Yes to both
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Nyrki |
12. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 5:00 PM EDT
Hello R & M,Thanks for redirecting us here from the blue wiki. It's complicated here too. Resurrection promises to be great. Still trying to stop or at least avert JD again, find the T-X, it'll be a lot a action. There doesn't seem to be much of TDE in this new story, but who knows? It'll be interesting for character & relationship development. How John and Cameron will do together. Will their relationship alter their strategy. Even become dangerous? How Cameron will deal with her new emotions? Moe's right. Cameron will probably be faced with some doubts about her nature and the hatred from some who know her true nature. It was, it is and it seems it'll always be. Poor Cam, she will have ever and ever more to deal with as she grows. Will Sarah stick to her decision concerning J & C? It'll probably not be that easy. I'm eager to see all that. You previously said that you will be working on WAD over the summer. Does that mean you will start working on the new sequel only at fall? Anyway, I'm supporting you in this sequel. Do you find this valuable? |
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The1Russter |
13. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 5:44 PM EDT
I will continue to work on WAD while developing scenes and writing notes for Resurrection. There is some research to do to get some elements more realistic. the actions of the military in developing Sky Net. What actions the President and the US government will have to do to smooth out relations after Kreilley's attempts. And in all this mix is a TX pushing the development along secretly. Than there is relationships and all the stuff you mentioned above. Complex. Character relations and growth. More suspense and intrigue. Less action though there will be some of that.Just don't hold me to anything i say now. AS it gets written, it could be a fare shake different than initially proposed. Do you find this valuable? |
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meanoldmoe |
14. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 6:18 PM EDT
I think it is true with any fan fic......you start of with a plan and go one way, only to find it ends up being written another way.A change in mood, a feeling it should go another way, or even from feedback of the readers...anything can influence a writer and his story. Do you find this valuable? |
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Nyrki |
15. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 6:29 PM EDT
"This strategy proved efficient. You should comply" would Cameron say ;-)
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The1Russter |
16. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 7:29 PM EDT
""This strategy proved efficient. You should comply" would Cameron say ;-)"I like that quote. Just completed some more grammar corrections to a chapter from part 1. I'm now off to write a scene for WAD. Do you find this valuable? |
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meanoldmoe |
17. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 7:41 PM EDT
I see you have the sound track all set up for Reunion Russ.....great news !!
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KrelleK |
18. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 24 2010, 8:15 PM EDT
multiple characthers, is the Youngs going to be a part of it, Alli´s father was an Architect right, so perhaps they could get to meet them like that, and as things have changed maybe something could end up hurting the Youngs(hopefully not, but it could lead to John and Cammy taking care of her, (yes I know it had been done a few times before, I guess it is just me having a soft spot for Allison(not to say i am not a Jameronite, because I am)and hopes she could get a nice life, but I would also like her to meet Cameron)but anyway I think it would be a good idea, to have the Resistance do some more of those actions like in heavy metal, other things too, like get there hands on some very good computer programmers too(and I know that a big part of the resistance might not like that), but I think it would be a good idea "convert" Skynet-operatives like what was his name again(the heavy metal one) or perhaps other kinds of Vicks Do you find this valuable? |
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The1Russter |
19. RE: What will the future bring, now that Reunion is finished?
May 25 2010, 6:22 PM EDT
The1Russter 2300. RE: REUNION a Fanfic by The1Russter Yesterday, 4:43 PM EDT | Post edited: Yesterday, 5:35 PM EDT (edit my post) I don't think a TX could control a machine not within its database and Cameron and the TX come from two different time lines. But I'm more interested in exploring the TX's infiltration capabilities and how it moves the present situation toward building Sky Net now that Kreilley and company are gone. The Sky Net that sent it back did so to protect itself ensure it's own creation and probably share information it had learned in the meantime to make it stronger in the past. Do you find this valuable? |
