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Scene three of my Wicker Man remake idea. I was quite surprised at how much I’ve wanted to work on this, but the feeling of creative flow is one of the best things ever, so I’m going with it as long as it lasts.

This scene is the first one that I feel like I’m really able to start inflecting the original story with the main theme I’d like to inject— the idea that the cult is an excuse to instrumentalize and consume women. I’m hoping to introduce it slowly but I think here’s a good place to start making it perceptible. That way, I can move away from the idea that the problem is the pagan-ness— instead, the problem will be patriarchy. THE PROBLEM IS ALWAYS PATRIARCHY!

Day #20 - The Inn )
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I’m surprised to report how inspired I’ve felt on the idea of writing a Wicker Man remake, and have done a fair bit of work on it already. I like the idea of working in the idea that (minor spoilers for The Wicker Man) the Summerisle cult is basically an excuse to instrumentalize and consume women, which I am going to endeavor to weave throughout my adaptation.

This scene immediately follows the opening I posted yesterday, #18 - “Summerisle”. Its main purpose is to lay a lot of groundwork in as natural conversation as possible. Exposition is never easy to work in, and often boring, but I’m also trying do a little planting that will payoff later.

Day #19 - Morrison )
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Now this one came as a surprise. I’ve been interested in horror lately, and I’ve been wanting to try a bit of my own— Lacuna is a recent bit of experimentation in the genre. But I’ve been watching some horror films recently to get inspired, and found myself intrigued by 1973’s The Wicker Man, which I’ve never actually seen until now. It’s a bit hokey in its datedness, but overall I enjoyed it and thought it was an effective film. My friend Jonathan asked me recently if I could think of films I think I could have done my own version of, and given how legendarily mocked the 2006 remake is, it struck me that I might have an interesting idea for my own reinterpretation. So here’s an opening scene for that idea.

Day #18 - Summerisle )
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I realized recently I haven’t worked on the mainline entry in my MCU fanfiction series, Forever Captain, for like a year now, and I feel kind of guilty about that. Of course, I feel guilty when I spend too much time writing fanfiction as well, so I guess I can’t win. But I do want those stories to get finished eventually. Unfortunately, I always find plotting to be the most intensive work in writing, and in a plot-heavy story like that one, it makes it the number one barrier to making progress.

It sometimes helps when I’m stuck on a prose project to try drafting scenes as drama, to lower the barrier to getting them on the page. That’s not super helpful when I’m trying to just figure out what needs to happen structurally, but it occurred to me it might help on a lower-intensity installment in the series that hasn’t seen any updates recently either. So here’s a scene from The Show, the one where Steve’s great-granddaughter takes him to see Rogers! The Musical. The premise of that piece is that while laughing over the musical’s inaccuracies, Steve gets to reflect to his great-granddaughter about the trajectory of his life, so I can weave pathos into the humor, and I’m afraid this scene is a bit thin for that. But as I continually remind myself— draft now, flesh out later. If you can’t do something you want to with a scene, do the next-easiest thing to it, and fix it in the edit.

I shall definitely have to do that here.



Day #9 – Singing and Dancing )
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Okay, while yesterday I said I really don’t know much about the upcoming Mrs. Hawking part 9, actually there is one thing I really know I want to do. I had this idea that Mrs. Hawking needs to be approached by people who engage with social issues as systemic issues and encourage her to do the same.

I think this would be interesting for several reasons. One, we’re working in the superhero genre, and an unfortunate limitation of that genre that it is not well-equipped to discuss the effects of systems. Superhero stories come from a fantasy of individual agency— what, if you had the power, WOULD YOU DO? I really hate when writers try to make superheroes symbols or stand ins for systems— like fascism or libertarianism or communism or whatever —since a genre all about individuals doing stuff really can’t effectively represent something so complex. But because of that, superhero stories tend to hand-wave overarching issues baked into the fabric of society and the need for collective, ongoing action to solve them, instead treating problems as matters of individual choices and individual actions, of single heroes standing up to make a difference.

I would like do a little bit of a better job addressing that complexity in our story. So I thought it would be interesting to have someone, basically, challenge Mrs. Hawking to engage more with the truths of systemic problems and collective solutions. All her life, she’s been such a lone wolf— partially because of her nature and her own arrogance in her judgment and abilities, but also from cynicism about the willingness of the rest of the world to change. Characters need to be continually challenged, and a big one for our hero is to learn to work with others to achieve bigger things. So I think it would make a great challenge for her to have to expand her thinking in this way.


Photo by Kathy Lucie Bedard


Day #2 - Speak )
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There was this funny thing my mother used to do-- I suppose this joke or reference she'd make sometimes --when she thought somebody was being overdramatic about a situation. It's a little tricky to describe, but basically she'd hold up her hand, palm facing front with fingers spread, and shake it, while saying in a kind of wobbly voice, "Woe!" It was meant to indicate that the situation wasn't that big a deal, and she felt somebody was being a little silly being so miffed about it. While the meaning of the gesture is clear without a ton of explanation, I somehow also got an impression of where the gesture came from, so to speak, and I can't recall where I got it from.

I have always been under the impression that the bit was meant to represent a court jester holding a little head-on-a-stick version of himself-- Google tells me this is called a marotte --acting as a Greek chorus to whatever the king said. So, like, if the king is lamenting some terrible thing, the jester backs him up by shaking the head-on-a-stick and crying "Woe!" In my mom's impression, the wiggling raised hand is meant to represent the jingling marotte, and the "Woe!" becomes sarcastic.

Thing is, I don't know where this understanding of the gesture came from. I can't remember if Mom ever explained to me that that was what she was doing, or if I actually saw it somewhere and put two and two together. Wish I could ask her. Has anybody ever seen something like this? Or did I complete hallucinate this explanation and graft it onto that weird little thing my mom did?

I don't know why I was thinking about this today, but it came into my head.
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Finally got around to checking out William Nicholson’s play Shadowlands, a dramatization of the process of C.S. Lewis falling in love with his wife Joy Davidman Gresham, and dealing with her eventual death of cancer just a few years later. It was sweet and sad and I quite enjoyed it, to the point where I wonder if my long-standing interest in the subject matter might have biased me. But I thought it was quite good, with strong characterizations, excellent dialogue, and lots of lovely little touches that came from an understanding of the actual historical people’s lives. A Grief Observed, a clear inspiration for the work, is one of my favorite pieces of Lewis’s; it was important to me both in dealing with my grief over my mother’s death, and with my own struggles to remain hopeful in the face of pain. So I may be a bit inclined to like it, but I still thought it was good on its own merits.

The only real critique I have of it are that the ending feels a bit rushed; it does touch on how the loss of Davidman shook Lewis’s faith for a time, and he had to rebuild it, but I thought it got to that rebuilt place a bit faster than made sense. Also, there was a moment that didn’t work for me if only because it contradicted an explicit point made in A Grief Observed. There’s a scene where Lewis’s older brother Warren encourages him to speak to his stepson about their shared sorrow over the loss of Davidman. It’s a pretty well-written scene, and I can see why the writer felt it was narratively necessary, but it bugged me because Lewis explicitly says in the memoir that he attempted to talk to the young sons she left behind about it, and it was so uncomfortable for all of them that he quit trying. The scene in the play has that moment go way better than he describes it, and while I get it was a dramatization rather than a biography, it still rang false to me.

My favorite part of the construction was the way it intertwined the story with Lewis’s wrangling with the subject that most preoccupied him in his theological life— what he called “the problem of pain,” the question of how a God that loves us can allow pain in the world. If you’re going to write about Lewis as a character and capture anything true about him, that really does have to be part of his personal struggle, and I thought the play incorporated it well. It also drove home an understanding I always felt was necessary to get Lewis and his work— that this is a man who hurt —because nobody would become so obsessed with that question unless they had a lot of suffering they needed to make sense of.

”How’s the pain, Joy?” “Only shadows, Jack.”
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I saw The Substance this past weekend, and I am sorry to report I didn’t really like it. Not that it was bad, exactly, but I don’t think it was effective. At least, if it was trying to tell the story I was expecting. SPOILERS AHEAD.

From the marketing, I was going in for a story about a woman whose fear of losing her value as she aged leading her to destroy everything of ANY value about herself. I was preparing myself for this film to, for lack of a better term, trigger the hell out of me, or at least give me big feelings. This is, in theory, a horror movie for me, exploring ideas that I VERY SPECIFICALLY find scary. My fear of aging and becoming ugly is well-documented, after all. But it really didn’t work for me, because I don’t feel like it captured any of what that fear feels like.

To begin with, it is not a subtle film. That’s not necessarily a criticism, but I will say I did not care for it. Anytime a character was remembering something that just happened to them, the moment would be superimposed right on top of things, like it didn’t expect you to make the connection. The misogynist male executive was depicted as loud, gross, and over the top as possible— from having him rant in so many words about how old women sucked, to yucky closeups of him chomping on shrimp. And that’s to say nothing of how over the top the voyeurism of the camera was on Margaret Qualley’s body. I was kind of hoping to see a depiction of pervasive, insidious anti-aging bias is woven into the world, particularly for women, particularly for women in the limelight. It just seemed a bit too easy to have a very yucky man straight-up tell Demi Moore that fifty is too old— especially when she’s so beautiful that she’s able to pass for younger than fifty when she’s actually sixty-two.

Again, I get that this extremity and exaggeration was a deliberate stylistic choice. But to my sensibility, when you create a fantasy of a real experience, you are trying to use the fantastical elements to express true ideas in a manner that makes them stand out even more strongly than they do in life. So it wasn’t that I was expecting this lurid sci fi horror extravaganza to realistically depict the mundane indignities of getting older. But I felt like the representations should be clearly alluding to emotions and experiences that were recognizable enough to evoke horror. But I only saw one moment, maybe one and a half moments, that felt like genuine expression of the struggle of aging.

The first and realest was when her growing insecurity over her appearance in comparison to Sue while getting ready for her date led her to second-guess herself so badly, she not only ruined her appearance, she collapsed entirely. As someone who has wiped off fifty percent of all lipstick she’s ever applied in her entire life, because of staring in the mirror and genuinely being unable to tell if it looks good or clownish— as someone who has wondered if I ought to just get that tiny little poke of flesh at the corners of my jaw “taken care of” before anybody but me starts to notice— I felt that.

The only other one that came close, and to me used the extreme fantastical exaggeration effectively for once, was when her trollishly twisted self stood beside the portrait of herself in her glory days. The comparison— of having been perfect once, having known what it was like to have been beautiful, but intensely aware of how fleeting it is —shivered me, because it evoked a terror that runs genuinely deep. I’ve been lucky enough to have kept my figure up to this point, but my face has visibly aged, losing some roundness around the jawline and loosening up just a tiny bit at the jowls. Even as I exult over the fact that I can still wear a bikini I bought when I was nineteen, the changing shape of my face reminds me that it’s all just a matter of time before it all goes away. No amount of beauty you once had protects you from what’s to come.

It also didn’t manage to capitalize on its compelling premise. The idea was that you use a medical procedure to make a younger hotter self, and trade off weeks of getting to go out and live life. When the selves cannot split time and resources equally and become jealous of each other, they destroy one another. But I think they just didn’t build it out right. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll would maintain consciousness when he became Hyde; he had the same memories and awareness, just like everything about himself and his personality were different. He felt Hyde’s experiences, he knew what Hyde did, because— as was ultimately the point of the book —Hyde WAS him. In The Substance, main self Elisabeth and alternate self Sue shared no consciousness at all, and under most circumstances weren’t even able to meet each other. It wasn’t really like having an alternate self; it was more like having a child you had no relationship with, and no ability to develop one.

It really made it hard for me to see what the advantage of the process was— you miss out on half of your life, you don’t get to personally enjoy any of the benefits of being the young hot self, and you don’t even have any ability to develop love or affection for the other self to make you enjoy their success vicariously. The company that makes the Substance has to continually remind Elisabeth and Sue that they are one, but… they don’t feel that way, to us or to them, because they’re really not. The process really doesn’t facilitate anything that would make them feel that they are.

It made me wonder if maybe it was more a story about jealousy, or living vicariously through your child. But that lack of relationship between them left a lot of even that premise on the table.

I also didn’t quite understand the purpose of the extremely sexualizing camera angles constantly used on Sue. At first, I thought they were trying to establish the excitement of suddenly having an amazing body, and delighting in checking it out. That made sense to me. (Although for the record, if Margaret Qualley is hotter than Demi Moore, it’s only by the tiniest bit, which is saying something since Qualley is 29 and Moore is 62.) But they persisted with the objectifying closeups on her until almost the end of the movie. We get several sequences of her dancing shot like porn movies, with a particular focus on her ass. As I said, this is not a subtle movie, but after a while I didn’t get what it was trying to say by carrying it out so persistently. We knew by that point that she was hot, so… what? I thought eventually they might use the extreme objectification to make her body seem grosser and grosser, the way human physicality can become when you chop it up visually and get too close on the details, but by the time they were ready to do that, they actually started making her body itself fall apart. So it honestly started to feel like fan service to me, which seemed very out of place in a movie like this. If anybody has an idea of what they think it was trying to accomplish, I’d love to hear it.

There was also one element that cracked me up— the intense masculine voice that narrated the commercial for the Substance also was the one who answered the phone anytime Elisabeth and Sue called the company to complain. Poor guy, he probably auditioned for an acting gig and got stuck with a customer service job!
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I am quite late with this, but as I have been absolutely slammed for the last two months, it’s been something of a theme for the whole challenge. Still, I wanted to make sure I do as I always do, and give an assessment of what I made over the course of the month’s writing.

This year’s challenge was easy in some ways and hard in others. I’ve consistently found the process most useful and productive when I had a project to work on, and so I used much of it for drafting pieces for Mrs. Hawking part 8, which Bernie and I have recently dug into. I made a fair bit of progress, though we still have enough questions about how it’s going to work that I expect the scenes I generated to need a ton of editing. Still, I’m happy for the forward movement on the project. I also returned to Dream Machine, which I haven’t touched in a while, and did a few more new Little Monsters and Texts from Avengers Towers bits, so there was a noticeable focus on comedy. Didn’t write as much other fanfic as I expected, or more than one or two bits of anything else.

I am disappointed to report, however, that for the first time in thirteen years, I failed to finish all thirty-one pieces before the end of the month. I’ve been dealing with some focus issues for a while now, but the real problem is the last handful of months have been totally slammed. Between work, chores, and family obligations involving travel, I lost a ton of time that led to me falling behind. I know it doesn’t really matter— this is a challenge I’ve arbitrarily set for myself, with rules that only I care about, and I ended up doing the same amount of writing in the end that I always do. But I feel kind of bad that my perfect streak of all that time is a little tarnished.

As I was drafting it, I felt like my quality varied a lot. I remember being very frustrated with some pieces, while others came very easily. Looking back through what I wrote with a few weeks’ distance, however, I’m actually pretty pleased with the general level of these pieces. The character voices seem on point, the jokes are strong where there are jokes, and I managed to give some meaningful character motion in the vast majority of the scenes. That’s actually not half bad, even though I know everything will need a lot of editing, both stylistic and functional. I really do strongly believe that you need to just get SOMETHING on the page, no matter how bad, as the first step to making something good.

The breakdown of projects I wrote for:

Hawking part 8 - 14
Texts from Avengers Tower - 3
Dream Machine - 4
Little Monsters - 6
Gentlemen Never Tell 2 - 1
Forever Captain - 1
Witchy - 1

And the breakdown of characters I wrote for:

1. Nathaniel Hawking - 9
2. Beatrice Hawking - 8
3. Clara Hawking - 7
4. Victoria Hawking - 6
5. Mary Stone - 6
6. Leah Lucchesi - 4
7. Twyla Boogieman - 3
8. Draculaura - 3
9. Venus McFlytrap - 3
10. Frankie Stein - 3
11. Ghoulia Yelps - 3
12. Heath Burns - 2
13. Josie Carraway - 2
14. Meryl Dresden - 2
15. Derek Kaplan - 2
16. Joanna Kerrigan - 2
17. Spectra Vondergeist - 2
18. Clawdeen Wolf - 2
19. Bucky Barnes - 1
20. Meredith Barry - 1
21. Clint Barton - 1
22. Lagoona Blue - 1
23. Abbey Bominable - 1
24. Peggy Carter - 1
25. Devon Chambers - 1
26. Zach Barry - 1
27. Cleo de Nile - 1
28. Ryan Dresden - 1
29. Gwen Galway - 1
30. Justin Hawking - 1
31. Reggie Hawking - 1
32. Logan - 1
33. Megan May - 1
34. Catty Noir - 1
35. Nate Reyes - 1
36. Barbie Roberts - 1
37. Steve Rogers - 1
38. Thor - 1
39. Toralei Stripe - 1
40. Arthur Swann - 1
41. Sam Wilson - 1
42. Wade Wilson - 1

Forty-two characters is a fairly large number, even for me. Last year I only wrote for thirty-six, thirty-seven the year before, and thirty-four the year before that. I averaged about three characters a scene, though most of them only had two while the largest maxed out at seven. I’ve always found it tougher to manage larger-cast scenes, so I’m surprised at how many there were this year to skew the average.

Favorite scenes? I thought I did pretty well this year, so I liked a lot. I enjoyed writing for Beatrice Hawking, with her enthusiasm for learning undercover work and managing her privileged background, such as in #23 - Just Powder and #25 - Tweenies.

#23 - Culture Not Costumes is a really funny Little Monsters bit, as is #19 - Relatable. I was also glad I was able to work out #14 - Special Ability, since I was chipping at that joke for most of the month. I’m fond of #26 - Two Sets of Tentacles if only because it’s a serious contender for weirdest thing I’ve ever written.

I also ended up really liking #31 - Derek in Hell, since it’s one of those scenes that I didn’t know where it was going to go until I wrote it. In fact, the only scene I don’t really like is #30 - In Murder’s Path, which doesn’t add anything to its larger piece and was the first of the two scenes I had to write past the end of the month.

Favorite lines? Lagoona’s weird, weird mini-monologue in #26 - Two Sets of Tentacles. Beatrice’s too-enthusiastic recitation of her melodramatic invented backstory in #25 - Tweenies. Nathaniel’s titular line in #24 - Got the Morbs. There’s some cute back and forth between Justin and Reggie in #17 - Let Me Tell You.

So, yeah, a lot of good came out of the exercise this month. Even if I was a little late getting it all done.
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Fighting to catch up because I’m so behind. But this is from Mrs. Hawking 8 again, some time after #25 - “Tweenies” when Beatrice is undercover. The logic as to how the scene fits into the larger structure is still a bit off, but again, good raw material. A little something to raise the stakes of the case.



Day #27 - Lord Love a Duck )
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Here’s more from the next Mrs. Hawking play, specifically the part where Beatrice goes in undercover as an in-between maid to gather some information for the case. I want to show her learning curve, as she balances her training with her own particular idiom for approaching undercover work. I also like the idea of seeding a character who will become important later as someone Beatrice connects with on this mission. This scene is currently kind of non-specific (as my first drafts always are) and definitely too rushed, but I think there’s a lot of good character here.


Photo by Mark Edwards


Day #25 - Tweenies )
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Argh, I've fallen behind again. Bernie and I went home this past weekend to help my dad around the house, packing up stuff, moving furniture, since he's planning on eventually downsizing. We ended up moving the beautiful library shelves and books up to our place yesterday, which while welcome, was not initially part of the plan! I'm happy since I wanted them for ages, but it meant I didn't have time to write my daily scenes.

So here's my effort to catch back up. This scene immediately follows #22 - "Just Powder" and is an effort to include the idea that since Mrs. Hawking accepted the physical end of her detective career in In the Bones, she's fallen into a bit of a depression. She's not been doing much work, and spends a lot of time hiding feeling sorry for herself. The events of this play will make her confront that and decide how she wants to move forward. I may need to change the specifics of the previous part of the scene to make that totally compatible with this, but I really like exploring this direction.

Also, I get to use the fabulous Victorian phrase "got the morbs".


Photo by Mark Edwards


Day #24 - “Got the Morbs” )
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Okay, this turned out kind of cute. Another bit from Mrs. Hawking part 8 that still needs work, but has a decent idea at the core of it. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it when I forced myself to dig into it today— late in a valiant struggle to get caught up —but bits of it kind of came together. I think I will have to adjust some of the details for logic reasons, but the dynamics are pretty good. Just goes to show, sometimes when you make yourself just write something, you can surprise yourself with what comes out of you. 😆

I noticed I haven’t written much with Hawking herself yet for this challenge. Her scenes are taking more time to come together, I guess.


Photo by Mark Edwards


Day #22 - Just Powder )
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It's late in the day, but it's still the 20th, so I'm technically still caught up!

This is another little bit of a Captain America fan fiction scene that I wrote as a drama, but could definitely use as the first draft of a prose fic. That technique often helps me get started. It's just a silly little moment, coming out of my personal preference for clean shaven Cap as opposed to bearded, which influences why I write him that way in my by-now pretty extensive post-Endgame series Forever Captain. I guess it's an attempt to find an in-character justification for it. There isn't a lot to this, but it could make for a cute little one shot that I could stick in the continuity of their early married years.

I guess there's also a tiny nod to that awful look Chris sported when he was performing Lobby Hero too.



Day #20 - Bearded )
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Blargh, I'm a little behind. But I should be able to catch up today. Anyway, this is an early scene of Mrs. Hawking 8, where Clara approaches Mary upon her return to London, asking her to take on a case for a family she knows. I'm also trying to use the early part of the scene to subtly establish some things on Clara's mind early on, but no so obviously that it tips my hand as to where her story is going. Right now I'm not sure if I achieved that, so this scene is a little weak. Not to mention the fact that we still need to figure out a lot of the details of the case, which is always one of the hardest parts of writing a Hawking play.

This also kind of runs into the problem of Tory being about fives years old at this point. Wrangling a child onstage, particularly one so small, is no small order. But maybe this scene could work because we could make a little lump in the bed to believably represent a little girl.


Photo by Mazz Mazzacano


Day #18 - One Mother to Another )
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So this could turn into something fun, but right now it doesn’t have enough direction. It would be fun to do another Justin Hawking story in the vein of Gentlemen Never Tell, but right now I only have bits and pieces of ideas. I like the idea that each time we tell a Justin story, it comes in the form of a semi-tall tale Justin is recounting to a loved one, so today’s scene is noodling around with a frame for such a story. In this case, I chose Reggie, Nathaniel and Clara’s son and Justin’s nephew, who like his sister Beatrice is finally old enough to be depicted onstage. This scene doesn’t really know what it’s doing yet— what the story is about, what it’s trying to say, what the set up is— but I like the idea of Justin as Fun But Maybe a Bad Influence Uncle in Reggie’s life.



Day #17 - Let Me Tell You )
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I’m not sure this scene as it is currently constructed will make it into the final version of Hawking part 8. The ideas in it are useful and good, but structurally I’m still working out some issues. But as I’ve mentioned, like in #3 - No Secrets, I’m working on including a thread of Clara struggling with some stuff across the narrative of this one, and this is an early scene in that progress. It’s supposed to give the audience a hint that something is going on without totally giving away the game yet. Again, it might have to be fit into the plot differently, but the ideas are sound.


Photo by Mazz Mazzacano


Day #15 - Meddling )
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I am looking forward to interactions between Mary and Beatrice in Mrs. Hawking part 8. There’s a lot of material in the idea that Mary used to be Mrs. Hawking’s apprentice, and Beatrice’s interest in moving into that role. Mary can be a mentor as well, and her ambivalence about what it means to learn from and work with Mrs. Hawking adds some interesting tension. What would she say to another bright young girl who seems to be on the verge on her life moving in the same direction as Mary’s, with all the good and the bad that implies? With the added complication of the class differences, which can never be ignored in this story.

This scene piece uses the word “scrub” too much, but I like it and all its connotations. I feel like you hear the hard work baked right into it in a way that “clean” or “wash” doesn’t necessarily. That vibe is very necessary to this moment.


Photos by Jacob LaRocca


Day #12 - Scrubbing )
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Okay, this is pretty bare bones, but there’s a germ of a good idea in here. In Hawking 8, Nathaniel and Clara’s daughter Beatrice’s involvement in Mrs. Hawking’s work is going to be further explored. I like the idea of looking into what her integration into the team looks like, and how that affects Mrs. Hawking and Mary dealing with one another again after their four-year separation. It will also add a lot of grist to Clara’s story, as she navigates her feelings about Beatrice’s path.

This will need a lot of refining and expansion. I still don’t know the details of the case or how it will work. But there’s something I can work with banged out here.


Photo by Mark Edwards


Day #8 - Hall Girl )
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I saw the Deadpool and Wolverine movie last weekend and enjoyed it very much, as I tend to with Marvel movies— they just make me happy in an uncomplicated way. It also reminded me that it’s been a really long time since I wrote a new Text from Avengers Tower, so I better get on that.

The fun of this one was working to capture Deadpool’s, shall we say, particular speaking idiom. Besides his obvious colorful vulgarity, his sentences use vivid vocabulary, can be surprisingly complex in structure, and are jam-packed with imagery. One of the things I love to do in fan fiction is capture the spirit of the source material, particularly coming up with original dialogue that still sounds believably in the characters’ voices. Texts from Avengers Tower has the additional dimension of figuring out how those same characters would text, such that their voices come through filtered by the way they would use the technology.

I think I did an okay job of that here. 😆 Minor spoilers for the Deadpool and Wolverine movie.



Day #2 - Hundred-Way )

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