The Factory Floor

1:41 AM

@MonicaCellio Did you mean to put that in Writer's chat?

Also, hi! It's been a while.

@Green no. It's (correctly) closed there, and there are suggestions from the community there to migrate here.

Also, hi!

@MonicaCellio In the context of WB, i'd say it's way way way too broad

@MonicaCellio are you still in choirs?

@Green that's my take too, but I wanted to get input.

@MonicaCellio I agree with your assessment.

@Green one choir, yes. We're currently learning Palestrina's "Exultate Deo"; I already know it (we did it about 6-7 years ago) but we have a lot of newer members since then. Also learning a couple others that are probably more obscure. :-)

1:46 AM

@MonicaCellio Nice! I've never heard that piece but it must be beautiful.

HDE 226868

@MonicaCellio Yeah, nope nope nope.

@Green See this is why I said you should do it.

@James Hehe :)

Exsultate Deo - Palestrina

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That's not us, and it a little faster than I expect we'll sing it.

@MonicaCellio That's gorgeous!

@James But that's not the actual research, that's just nuances about the subject matter. Still, I've taken your question as far as I plan to take it.

1:57 AM

Dang

I was hoping to data bait you

@James I've been system baited plenty this week. Ash got his giant igneous dikes and John Locke got his planetary-wide lightning.

@James Besides your question is too broad. You failed to provide definitions for tech levels and whether imported tech/tools counts towards the locations "tech level". VTC-Too Broad. Womp womp.

@Green ...if I start putting more effort into baiting you, you may regret that.

@Ash that reminds me, you'll need some way to seal the entry wound for that giant iron/nickel/trans-uranic into the planet's core. I didn't address that.

@James Bring it old man.

@Green Read your intro by the way. Its good writing.

@James Thanks! Do you recognize the voice?

2:05 AM

Are you planning for that to be the first part of the book? Will there be anything before it?

@Green I just read it with yours.

@James You read chapter 1.

so yeah

@James I'm not planning on a prologue. I have the epilogue written.

@Green Its hard to say without seeing more. But if you find you have trouble establishing an identity for the character...it may be worth adding a chapter or two of just stuff going on in the normal world prior to the event.

@James That's a good idea.

Part of why I'm writing this is because I stink at understanding characters and developing them. Being the last person earth demands focus on who this person is.

2:08 AM

Truth

Also, I think running through Boston with no one else around would be a hoot. You'd get to know people in a far more intimate way than if they were living.

I'm planning some exploration of various homes to see what kind of people I can "meet" there.

@Green Don't leave finger prints.

@James there's no police or even anyone to bring charges.

2:26 AM

@Green oh...right...you meant in the story...it sounded like you meant for research purposes.

@Green how somebody reacts to being the last person on earth depends a lot on what he was like before that event. So being able to show some context from before the change will probably help you. You can do that linearly or via flashbacks or probably other ways.

oooooh flashbacks are always fun

well...ok that isn't true but they can be fun

Two examples (at different ends of the spectrum) come to mind. Near one end, the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough At Last". I think the world ends about halfway through, maybe later. Near the other, the movie The Quiet Earth, where we see very little before but we get some flashbacks/reflections later. (As I recall; it's been a while.)