For anyone who has read the whole story (@Gigili, @MattЭллен, @Cerberus, @MrShiny), you should be left with some fairly significant questions. I am curious to hear what those are, to see if I am anywhere near on target.
Macy scratched a car. Macy smokes and drinks coffee and whisky. She doesn't like that Mark got bored of her once she was employed. She doesn't want to talk to Danny. Macy likes having sex with women. Macy likes drawing women
she made an ashtray that she turned into a cup
She likes to hide from the people she works with. she trusted Ada quite quickly. She's in some sort of relationship with Jin
OK so up to this point we have seen events from Macy's point of view.
A scratched car, a strange new employee who befriends her, stolen office supplies, a romantic interlude, a stunning secret revealed, an accidental death.
In the next part, I plan to write Mark's story. I haven't decided where to start, but I have thought about his character.
He is a substance abuser, he has been looting his own company, and he is being threatened by dealers. He is starting to get into unpayable debt.
Wow, I love these kinds of stories. I recently saw a movie which was three parts, each part from an important character's point of view but the same events, it was extremely interesting.
Ada shows up on his doorstep. She makes vague claims and he believes she knows something significant that could destroy him, so although he can't afford it, he hires her as a programmer.
Here is the part I am not sure about. In my head, Ada was lying about what happened to her.
I have to figure out why Ada wants to kill Mark, and what Mark thinks that Ada knows, and it has to be consistent with the story that Ada told Macy.
So I have this idea that Ada makes claims about "what happened at the park" and Mark thinks she means she witnessed him buying drugs (or something like that).
So originally, it was going to be that Ada is really crazy (she still is) and she had an elaborate plan to kill Mark because he cut her off in traffic.
But now that doesn't work.
Of course, if I drop Mark's story, I could still do that.
Anyway, I'm thinking it still ought to be something trivial.
I don't know how absurd to make this story though.
That's a good idea though. Maybe Ada provided some regular park service and Mark was rude to her.
He would have seen her before but not recognized her because service people are beneath him.
That fits. Macy's scars could come from actually being raped, but she was really warped by it and decided that she would kill people who pissed her off.
@DForck42 Compliment the bride. Compliment the groom. Compliment the ceremony. Make joke 1 about Groom. Make joke 2 about groom. Say how lucky he is to have found Bride. Say how happy you are that they are paired for life. Toast. Sit
await applause
I'm sure there is a reason I've not been a best man...
but OTOH I've been procrastinating writing an outline for so long that I figured I'd just write something and see if it turns out to be a novel or a short story
And if you want to make the fact that Jesse is a nerd into a joke, maybe conjure up an image of him playing with swords in a way that is comical to outsiders.
You could also tell a story of some kind of funny incident that happened with you and Jesse or Jesse and Jessica. Perhaps to serve as a warning to Jessica.
The best man and maid of honour at my wedding put on a skit depicting how I met my wife. But the BM dressed up as my wife and the MoH dressed up as me. it was amusing.
It is appropriately funny, but again, no one cares about how you know Jesse. They will want to hear your perspective on Jesse and Jessica's relationship.
It's their wedding after all, not a class reunion or a funeral.
What about doing a weekly writing exercise? Flash fiction, poetry, etc, and we share what we've made next week?
@DForck42 I'd keep through {we’ve become pretty good friends.} and then from {I’m glad you both make each other happy} to the end.
Then insert something about Jesse's reaction to meeting Jessica, your feelings about their relationship, how you knew that Jessica was the one for Jesse when...
Well, then how about something like, "Maybe Jesse will bring Jessica to MidRelm someday, but if he does (addressing Jessica) be sure to bring a [something funny]."
So maybe tell the part about meeting Jesse in the larping group and then this funny thing happened, so if Jessica joins the group she should be sure to bring lots of hairspray (or something related to the funny part of the story).
But so what's the skinny anyway? Is she a crazy bitch? Do you think she conned him into getting married? Are you having an affair with her?
Maybe just, "I haven't seen Jesse like this in all the time I've known him"?
Or something? Every emotion of course includes the bad stuff, people will get that.
Or if you want to be corny, you could say something like...
"In the time I’ve known Jesse, I've seen him go through just about every emotion there is in the human experience. But I'd never seen him stay awake all night just thinking of somebody until he met Jessica. That’s something only love can achieve."
OK, then for next Tuesday, let's write a paragraph or two. The paragraph(s) should have no dialog, and contain a rusty nail, a tulip, and the word "spangled."
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The paragraph(s) should have no dialog, and contain a rusty nail, a tulip, and the word "spangled."
@KitFox A tulip in a small brown vase spangled with gold sticky stars, held in place on a dilapidated window sill with a rusty old nail, bent to keep it from sliding off.
The Overlook Hotel
The Overlook Hotel