Fun stuff and totally different for me. I like the idea of building off an established foundation. Since we're doing it for ourselves and they're fan clubs, I guess there's no problem with copyright infringement?? As along as you don't profit from it?
I cringed when I read 75 years of sadism…😫😭 but enjoyed the topic of moving beyond it while still too deep within its throws. I think too much about how far down this MAGA Project2025 rabbit hole goes. Enjoyable to read a take of how a society can clean up the mess it created. Now I have to get back and watch the last two movies!
I was going to post the next chapter today, but forgot to e-mail it to myself this weekend. Oops.
Glad you enjoyed it.
As I said, I found the teenage love triangle more annoying than interesting. The idea of tossing kids into a wild arena to battle to the death was intriguing. The rebellion to overthrow the evil regime was standard.
Reorganizing the nation thereafter, however, and the adults who actually fought the war, were a lot more interesting.
Totally agree about the teen love angle. I rarely care much about adult love angles these days.
We are living in ‘interesting times’ as the Chinese curse goes. Much of our own making as we have discussed in the past.
How that nets out is the intriguing angle as we live through some of the craziness of these days. I will enjoy reading about how you flesh out the post Katness bio and get us to the other side!
Oh…I didn’t think it would be about KE and her lovers but the psych ops used on her in the context of her wins her killing the leader and how her role as a ‘leader’ impacted her as a person, a leader of a resistance.
It’s the teen angle that took me so long to finally dig in to watch the movie. It was the dystopian dynamics more than anything.
1. How is your boss doing after his arrest by ICE for his protesting at the immigration detention facility today?
2. Christopher Tolkien was reading The Lord of the Rings to British troops in Africa, that J.R.R. Tolkien was sending him (Christopher did the maps of Middle Earth while in Africa), not The Hobbit, which was already published. Sorry, this is nitpicking on my part.
3. Interesting piece of fan fiction for The Hunger Games. I like what I've read. Are you going for a noir detective novel type feel? That could really work with your writing style. It's almost your natural writing voice. First person narrative voice.
To 1. The Mayor got released that evening. Now we are being swamped with media requests for interviews and citizens across the nation either supporting or denouncing him, and I am taking them. One guy berated me and called me “worthless.” CLICK. That was very upsetting, as I have only regarded myself as that for 50 years.
To 2. That’s okay…I was doing it from memory. I haven’t read either in decades.
To 3. Yes, first-person narrative. There’s a lot going on in it. Believe it or not, one of the hardest things to do in writing fiction is come up with names.
In a screenwriting class I took, one of the students was writing a screenplay about a super-tough cop and a regular one. The super-tough cop suffers a crippling injury. The author himself had a disability, so it was partially autobiographical.
The ordinary cop was “Joe Standard.” The super-tough cop was “Greg DeLuxe.”
The instructor, who had worked with Tennessee Williams, told the kid that such names would not fly.
I suggested to the kid that he grab a copy of the “Baseball Register” and find a couple of journeyman players — not superstars or Hall of Famers — and use their names.
I assumed that you would be very busy in light of the mayor's arrest by ICE. You are not "worthless", so never listen to critics. They tend to be critical.
I had presumed that it was a brain fart on your part, and I might not have been the only one to point it out.
First-person narrative always lends itself to noir fiction. More so when the narrator is a cop, a reporter, or a detective.
Yes, coming up with names is difficult. I used to use white pages to come up with names, but that's now obsolete. Plant names as last names still works, as does the names of towns and villages.
I had to remind myself that NOBODY ever thanks municipal workers for their work. They come to City Hall to pay bills, fight parking tickets, struggle to get permits sorted out, stand in line, stand in line, stand in line, and pay their bills. Not a pleasant experience.
The only time my wife was ever thanked for working as a crossing guard was after Sandy Hook. Someone jumped out of her car and handed her $50.
The only time I was ever thanked was when I wrote a proclamation for a man who founded a bus company, who had just turned 100. After he got the proclamation, the requesting grandson sent me a $100 Outback Steakhouse gift card.
I went to my boss, and said, "I don't know the specifics, but I'm pretty sure I can't accept this."
"You're right," she responded.
I thought for a moment, and said, "Can he make a donation in my name to a museum?"
"He can," she answered, puzzled.
I went back to my phone, called him, and told him I had to mail back the card, but he could make a $100 donation in my name to the New York Transit Museum. He was eager to do so, and did.
When I told this to friends and family, a friend observed, "That Outback steak would have killed you before you would have got fired."
Government employees seldom, if ever, get the thanks that they deserve. Without employees like you, the whole system would grind to a halt.
So, thank you for all of your hard work, and all of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes.
At least there is a lot of support for your mayor, so I assume that you're extremely busy at work handling all of the requests for interviews and statements concerning ICE, the arrest, and GEO's illegal prison in town.
This is a very engaging fan-fic story and I can hear the war history of Earth coming out.
Do they have baseball in Panem?I could only get through the first three novels and movies when they were popular. Having another two books that are pre-quels to read about the world seemed a bit excessive. I don't know how people crank out books like that once a year.
I guess you find a formula that works for your content and do it that way. Writing is art though, writing takes talent to create the content. This is where I'll always fall short :)
Also, the Kit Kat Milkybars are incredibly fantastic! :)
Great, Kiwi! Glad to hear your voice. Keep writing!
Well, this is not new…also, this is completely different.
This is fan fiction.
Fun stuff and totally different for me. I like the idea of building off an established foundation. Since we're doing it for ourselves and they're fan clubs, I guess there's no problem with copyright infringement?? As along as you don't profit from it?
It’s for fun and not for profit.
I started it on a not-for-profit site called FanFiction.net, and that’s where it goes first. These are the chapters I’ve done.
Fascinating fan fiction. Now I'm a fan.
Thank you for your warm words, too!
Well, there’s more to come.
I really enjoyed this, the writing and the story. Looking forward to more.
Glad you did…I’ll post the second chapter this week.
I cringed when I read 75 years of sadism…😫😭 but enjoyed the topic of moving beyond it while still too deep within its throws. I think too much about how far down this MAGA Project2025 rabbit hole goes. Enjoyable to read a take of how a society can clean up the mess it created. Now I have to get back and watch the last two movies!
I’ll look forward to the next chapter, Kiwi!
Hope all is well!
I was going to post the next chapter today, but forgot to e-mail it to myself this weekend. Oops.
Glad you enjoyed it.
As I said, I found the teenage love triangle more annoying than interesting. The idea of tossing kids into a wild arena to battle to the death was intriguing. The rebellion to overthrow the evil regime was standard.
Reorganizing the nation thereafter, however, and the adults who actually fought the war, were a lot more interesting.
Totally agree about the teen love angle. I rarely care much about adult love angles these days.
We are living in ‘interesting times’ as the Chinese curse goes. Much of our own making as we have discussed in the past.
How that nets out is the intriguing angle as we live through some of the craziness of these days. I will enjoy reading about how you flesh out the post Katness bio and get us to the other side!
This is more about “everybody else” in the society than Katniss and her lovers.
Adults run that country, adults fight that war, adults rebuild that country. So this is about them.
Oh…I didn’t think it would be about KE and her lovers but the psych ops used on her in the context of her wins her killing the leader and how her role as a ‘leader’ impacted her as a person, a leader of a resistance.
It’s the teen angle that took me so long to finally dig in to watch the movie. It was the dystopian dynamics more than anything.
Yes, the dystopian nation fascinated me, too.
I point out that for the ruling elite, it was a utopian nation.
Fun read, they were strangely good books.
Yes, I’m 62 years old and I enjoyed them.
Crisp prose and snappy dialogue.
Isn't that what Perry White said about Clark Kent?
Go get ‘em, Supe!
Glad you’re enjoying it.
You will see something I don’t use in my nonfiction material — obscenities.
Thanks a bunch! I love it❣️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Three things:
1. How is your boss doing after his arrest by ICE for his protesting at the immigration detention facility today?
2. Christopher Tolkien was reading The Lord of the Rings to British troops in Africa, that J.R.R. Tolkien was sending him (Christopher did the maps of Middle Earth while in Africa), not The Hobbit, which was already published. Sorry, this is nitpicking on my part.
3. Interesting piece of fan fiction for The Hunger Games. I like what I've read. Are you going for a noir detective novel type feel? That could really work with your writing style. It's almost your natural writing voice. First person narrative voice.
To 1. The Mayor got released that evening. Now we are being swamped with media requests for interviews and citizens across the nation either supporting or denouncing him, and I am taking them. One guy berated me and called me “worthless.” CLICK. That was very upsetting, as I have only regarded myself as that for 50 years.
To 2. That’s okay…I was doing it from memory. I haven’t read either in decades.
To 3. Yes, first-person narrative. There’s a lot going on in it. Believe it or not, one of the hardest things to do in writing fiction is come up with names.
In a screenwriting class I took, one of the students was writing a screenplay about a super-tough cop and a regular one. The super-tough cop suffers a crippling injury. The author himself had a disability, so it was partially autobiographical.
The ordinary cop was “Joe Standard.” The super-tough cop was “Greg DeLuxe.”
The instructor, who had worked with Tennessee Williams, told the kid that such names would not fly.
I suggested to the kid that he grab a copy of the “Baseball Register” and find a couple of journeyman players — not superstars or Hall of Famers — and use their names.
I think he did.
I assumed that you would be very busy in light of the mayor's arrest by ICE. You are not "worthless", so never listen to critics. They tend to be critical.
I had presumed that it was a brain fart on your part, and I might not have been the only one to point it out.
First-person narrative always lends itself to noir fiction. More so when the narrator is a cop, a reporter, or a detective.
Yes, coming up with names is difficult. I used to use white pages to come up with names, but that's now obsolete. Plant names as last names still works, as does the names of towns and villages.
I had to remind myself that NOBODY ever thanks municipal workers for their work. They come to City Hall to pay bills, fight parking tickets, struggle to get permits sorted out, stand in line, stand in line, stand in line, and pay their bills. Not a pleasant experience.
The only time my wife was ever thanked for working as a crossing guard was after Sandy Hook. Someone jumped out of her car and handed her $50.
The only time I was ever thanked was when I wrote a proclamation for a man who founded a bus company, who had just turned 100. After he got the proclamation, the requesting grandson sent me a $100 Outback Steakhouse gift card.
I went to my boss, and said, "I don't know the specifics, but I'm pretty sure I can't accept this."
"You're right," she responded.
I thought for a moment, and said, "Can he make a donation in my name to a museum?"
"He can," she answered, puzzled.
I went back to my phone, called him, and told him I had to mail back the card, but he could make a $100 donation in my name to the New York Transit Museum. He was eager to do so, and did.
When I told this to friends and family, a friend observed, "That Outback steak would have killed you before you would have got fired."
Ah, yes, the long-gone phone book. It helped. I still rely on BaseballReference.com
Government employees seldom, if ever, get the thanks that they deserve. Without employees like you, the whole system would grind to a halt.
So, thank you for all of your hard work, and all of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes.
At least there is a lot of support for your mayor, so I assume that you're extremely busy at work handling all of the requests for interviews and statements concerning ICE, the arrest, and GEO's illegal prison in town.
This is a very engaging fan-fic story and I can hear the war history of Earth coming out.
Do they have baseball in Panem?I could only get through the first three novels and movies when they were popular. Having another two books that are pre-quels to read about the world seemed a bit excessive. I don't know how people crank out books like that once a year.
I guess you find a formula that works for your content and do it that way. Writing is art though, writing takes talent to create the content. This is where I'll always fall short :)
Also, the Kit Kat Milkybars are incredibly fantastic! :)
Well, Suzanne Collins has found a niche, like many other writers: Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grisham, and she is working it.
Baseball in Panem…there’s something about that coming, but I won’t give it away.
Glad you’re enjoying it so far.