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Post by lordhowl on Jul 15, 2010 0:50:11 GMT -5
OOPS! I just noticed a major error in Chapter 11 of the Feral Bond that would confuse everyone. Chapter 11 is missing three scenes, and one of them was crucial.
I have to reload the story from chapter 11 on. The reason why this happened is: chapter 11 is far too long. I hope to be done by morning.
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Post by lordhowl on Jul 15, 2010 3:41:46 GMT -5
Okay, I corrected the problems. It involved expanding 17 chapters into 19. The two scenes are restored and take place in what is now chapter 13, starting at scene 3, which begins with the sentence "Brigitte heard nothing in group, or rather, she heard everything except words," and ending with, "She did not know whether she dissembled or told the truth."
I know I said there were three. I miscounted the separators. There were two. Without these two scenes, what follows in the chapter is a mess.
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Post by lordhowl on Jul 15, 2010 17:31:09 GMT -5
I made a few minor changes to chapters 1-10 today, minor, but they took a damn long time, due to the fact that I had to make sure they were consistent with my manuscripts. I made a few proofreading corrections in the first four chapters, all suggested by Wicky, (thank you!) I also made some superficial changes in Chapter 1. Mostly they're changes that make the chapter flow better, but no changes in story. The only superficial detail that's different: Brigitte drinks four cups of water rather than two.
And the only substantial change is: all the chapters now have titles.
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Post by Grim The Weird on Jul 15, 2010 22:12:27 GMT -5
Okay, I have to boast a little about a work of fanfiction I have up: www.fanfiction.net/s/5709622/1/Ginger_Snaps_The_Feral_BondThis is an alternate version of Unleashed. To explain, I first learned of Ginger Snaps when I saw a small part of Unleashed on Halloween 2009. It resonated with me in a personal way: I had just been discharged from a psychiatric hospital after receiving electro-convulsive therapy and I was on all sorts of meds. I was also blown away by Emily Perkins' performance as Brigitte and had to learn more about this character's back story. I decided not to watch the rest of it until I had seen the original. So, then two weeks later, I saw the original. I was amazed at how great a movie it was. Wouldn't you know, then ten days later, I went back and watched Unleashed and I was so disappointed. Why? With my recent hospitalization, it turns out, my mind had raced ahead and had already put together in my head what the story was. I went as far as having thought out whole scenes. When that wasn't the story, I felt let down. So, hopefully, without insulting anyone, The Feral Bond is the alternate story I came up with for Unleashed. May everyone understand and enjoy. It's still a work in progress, but basically, it is being written from a very complete plot treatment, actually, a fully written script. i had not read this part before. but if i may add LH your story is way better than the original. i am sure that anyone who compares them will agree with me.
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Post by lordhowl on Jul 15, 2010 22:57:29 GMT -5
Okay, I have to boast a little about a work of fanfiction I have up: www.fanfiction.net/s/5709622/1/Ginger_Snaps_The_Feral_BondThis is an alternate version of Unleashed. To explain, I first learned of Ginger Snaps when I saw a small part of Unleashed on Halloween 2009. It resonated with me in a personal way: I had just been discharged from a psychiatric hospital after receiving electro-convulsive therapy and I was on all sorts of meds. I was also blown away by Emily Perkins' performance as Brigitte and had to learn more about this character's back story. I decided not to watch the rest of it until I had seen the original. So, then two weeks later, I saw the original. I was amazed at how great a movie it was. Wouldn't you know, then ten days later, I went back and watched Unleashed and I was so disappointed. Why? With my recent hospitalization, it turns out, my mind had raced ahead and had already put together in my head what the story was. I went as far as having thought out whole scenes. When that wasn't the story, I felt let down. So, hopefully, without insulting anyone, The Feral Bond is the alternate story I came up with for Unleashed. May everyone understand and enjoy. It's still a work in progress, but basically, it is being written from a very complete plot treatment, actually, a fully written script. i had not read this part before. but if i may add LH your story is way better than the original. i am sure that anyone who compares them will agree with me. Wow! Thank you so very much, Grim. You mean the original GS, or the "original" Unleashed? If you meant the original GS, I'd say, impossible. I'll have to invite you to the midwest so I could laugh in your face. lol. If you meant Unleashed, well, I'm hoping you're right. You ever see a movie and think, "man, they had a great idea, too bad they didn't do it right." Well, I felt like that with a lot of movies. I get visions of different scenes they should have had, or dialog they should have had. GS & Unleashed finally inspired me to test this out and see if I really do have better ideas for some movies. Never actually tried it before, and it does test my writing out for more ambitious things. Besides, a movie like GS with characters like Ginger and Brigitte deserves a new lease on life. Those sprequels weren't it.
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Post by †Wicky Wicked† on Jul 16, 2010 6:26:41 GMT -5
Haha lordhowl the sentence 'I'll have to invite you to the midwest so I could laugh in your face. lol', aww priceless
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Post by lordhowl on Jul 17, 2010 1:25:09 GMT -5
I made some minor changes to chapters 4 & 5. Nothing that changes the story. Mostly, I aimed at making the prose flow better and making descriptions clearer, not adding any substantial details. It wouldn't be worth it to read back, you probably wouldn't even notice the changes, but I hope you'd notice it was easier to read.
Though in chapter 4 at the beginning, I added a little more to clarify June's past somewhat. Later, there's also about 5-6 more lines of dialog added between June and Ginger to clarify something between that I thought was too obscure: the fact that Ginger can't go out of June's presence. She has to be in either June's or Brigitte's presence. Neither she nor June know why that developed.
Chapter 5, all of the changes were superficial. Just clarifying, making the prose better.
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Post by lordhowl on Jul 17, 2010 22:52:25 GMT -5
I did the most radical rewrite of any chapter yet on Chapter 6, but mostly in cutting dialog, not adding anything to the story or characters. I realized reading it how much chapter 6 dragged, that for some readers, it would be a deal-breaker.
For the most part, I just improved the writing, made it much clearer, made it flow better. Certain things like who "the team" is are made clearer, and in fact, I introduced that term in the chapter. I also make the term intermediate better defined. It literally means an intermediate-stage werewolf, that is, what Ginger was through most of GS.
Also later is the idea of a "rescue." That is, a "rescued" werewolf, similar to a feral cat who's "rescued."
Reason why I'm rewriting it? I'm applying things I learned about writing in later chapters to earlier chapters, and taking suggestions I've received.
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Post by lordhowl on Jul 18, 2010 22:52:56 GMT -5
I made some very minor changes to chapters 7-9, none of it worth reading back for, though if you haven't read it yet, it might make it easier.
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Post by lordhowl on Jul 20, 2010 21:49:58 GMT -5
I'm done with my re-reading and corrections to the story. I made very few changes and corrections in chapters 11-19. I added, I think, a total of just five sentences and took out fewer than that, and corrected a few typos.
The biggest changes are still in chapters 6 & 10, and those, again, were for all clarity and ease of reading. They really did not add anything to the story or characters.
Now, I think, I need some time off. I've been spending ALL my time in front of the computer screen doing this. I'm getting away for a few days . . .
The group story: I'm planning on editing what we have. Then I have to decide on "rules" for the next round, and what the goal is, how long to run this.
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Post by †Wicky Wicked† on Jul 21, 2010 9:55:17 GMT -5
Yeah sounds like you need some rest lordhowl. Have fun resting and we'll be seeing you in a few days. Can't wait for the (new) groupstory.
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Post by lordhowl on Aug 3, 2010 23:09:10 GMT -5
And the story goes on. I just put up Chapter 20 of "The Feral Bond." www.fanfiction.net/s/5709622/1/Ginger_Snaps_The_Feral_BondIt's now 92,000 words long, or about 312 pages typed, double-spaced in New Times Roman twelve point. Which just goes to show, Ginger Snaps, the Fitzgerald sisters and Sam could really inspire one's imagination. I think it has gotten into some really deep horror subjects, taking place in an asylum with a choice between madness and madness. So, how long is this madness going to go on? If I'm counting right, I have eight more chapters. And today I'll do some things on the group story.
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Post by epiklow on Aug 4, 2010 10:29:22 GMT -5
I'm going to start on chapter 1 again. Starting... right now!
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Post by †Wicky Wicked† on Aug 11, 2010 14:38:09 GMT -5
Have fun reading epiklow. I'm finished with chapter 9 so when I start reading a new chapter it will be chapter 10. Story is good so far
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Post by lordhowl on Aug 28, 2010 3:03:09 GMT -5
I just put up chapter 21 of my fanfiction novel, "Ginger Snaps: The Feral Bond." For those new here, it's my own sequel to the original Ginger Snaps, taking the starting point of "Unleashed" and going in a different direction with it. I was anxious to get this chapter up after all the delays due to computer problems, so it probably needs more proofreading, which I'll do by Sunday. I'm now up to about 96,000 words. This chapter is entitled: "A Choice of Madness," (playing off the previous chapter "Insane Proposition") and it is by far the bloodiest, goriest, most violent chapter yet. The rest of the novel will stay about at this level as it's now the full moon. The has about 40,000 more words to go. www.fanfiction.net/s/5709622/1/Ginger_Snaps_The_Feral_BondAs fanfiction, this is unique as it gets to be less about the Fitzgerald sisters in the middle, but gets to be more about them again at the end. Everything that happens in "The Feral Bond" happens because Ginger was bitten.
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Post by lordhowl on Sept 26, 2010 1:20:33 GMT -5
After being interrupted for grieving, chapter 22 of my unconventional fanfiction novel "GS: The Feral Bond" is completed. is.gd/ftrXX I'm going to try to knock the rest of this out as quickly as possible. I'm tired of this project lingering, and I'm frustrated at having ideas in my head but having to wait until the writing catches up. I'm certain that readers would be more encouraged to read it if they could see that, yes, it does end, and if they trust the author to reach the ending. So, I'm probably not going to be visiting very often until this is totally written. See everyone more then. LH
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Post by lordhowl on Oct 10, 2010 22:57:07 GMT -5
I put the final touches on Chapter 23 of "The Feral Bond." It isn't up yet due to maintenance on the fanfiction.net site. But it will be soon. The story can be found here, and soon the newest chapter will be as well: is.gd/fWapXIt's now 112,000 words long. That's 360 or so pages type-written double-space or maybe 270 pages in a mass market paperback book. It may be fanfiction, but it is a serious novel as well. And if you put "Ginger Snaps fan fiction" into Google, it comes out first, which means it's the number one GS fanfic in the world.
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Post by lordhowl on Oct 11, 2010 16:49:07 GMT -5
Now it's up!
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Post by lordhowl on Oct 15, 2010 16:51:58 GMT -5
Since this site is getting more and more traffic, I thought I'd actually, really promote my fanfic now: Ginger Snaps: The Feral Bond www.fanfiction.net/s/5709622/1/Ginger_Snaps_The_Feral_BondI call this, and the original Ginger Snaps, blood opera. That is to say, serious horror that has real emotions and human issues, but instead of arias, it has tons of horror and blood. The story is an alternate sequel to Unleashed, picking up after the first five scenes of that movie and taking the story concept in a completely different direction. Unleashed had a mind-blowing plot concept. Think of this as how Unleashed would have been if they had the budget to execute it. The first chapter shares a few commonalities with Unleashed, but after that, diverges. Here are some glimses into its plot and characters: -Brigitte finds that her mind is changing faster than her body, and she fears that if she does not get her dose of the monkshood, which was having a waning effect, that she will stop wanting resist the changes. -In a hospital full of people who hallucinate, Brigitte is haunted by an apparition of Ginger. But is this apparition really a hallucination, or a ghost of her late sister come back to help her? And how can it help? -A male werewolf tracks Brigitte waiting to mate with her after her inevitable transformation. It's Jason, with whom Brigitte traveled with to hold off the curse together at one time, but he could not tolerate monkshood, so they parted. Larger, stronger and nastier after so many full moons, Jason has chased her for over a thousand miles, and Brigitte hopes he will not track her to this hospital. -Meet June, a 17-year-old genius with bipolar disorder, recovering from a psychotic break, abandoned by her family, now looking at a bleak future. She discovers with Brigitte that she has a second sight, and knows what Brigitte's secret is, but constantly doubts her own sanity. She believes her purpose is tied to the sisters, and must choose between her safety and sanity and the good of others. -Meet Lewis, a detective in his mid-30s who had been hired by a shadowy organization to follow werewolf cases for years. He has a possible cure for werewolfism in his possession, but can he find Brigitte on time? -The setting is at Four Point Youth Psychiatric Hospital: once a vast, old former, tuberculosis sanitarium, mostly abandoned and now haunted with a past waiting to be awakened again. The facility is isolated in the countryside next to a dead, disappeared town. Its staff, at first, seem to only want to help Brigitte, but also seem mysteriously ignorant of her changes. -Meet Shannon, another patient with Brigitte. Shannon gets bitten, but for some reason, is never infected. Moreover, something in Shannon's scent makes Brigitte suspect she is not really what she appears to be. -Meet the ghosts haunting Four Point who rise to worship Brigitte by that final, full moon night. It's a different kind of fan fiction novel. It has many original characters. And I think it's the sequel a movie like Ginger Snaps really deserved. I think it's a decent novel in its own right, but I warn you, it's 112,000 words long so far, and it is not finished. For those who wonder, that's 360 pages double-spaced, which would be approximately 280 pages as a paperback novel. It's serious fiction written by a fan of Ginger Snaps who just wished more could have been done for a sequel. If you can take the length, and can hold on until I finish it, you're bound to enjoy it: www.fanfiction.net/s/5709622/1/Ginger_Snaps_The_Feral_Bond
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Post by lordhowl on Oct 24, 2010 18:29:38 GMT -5
I've now finished Chapter 24 of my fanfic, bringing it up to just short of 120,000 words, or nearly a 300 page typeset mass market paperback. is.gd/ggEJUIt's seriously fun horror reading.
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