Rooibos Chai
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WIP - Wrecked
🕑 Added 2023-09-15 15:30:02 +0000 UTCOkay! Here is an in-progress draft of the story I've been working on, please read this whole post for some discussion about the circumstances and stuff:
My intention was to have this done a week ago, as it was originally written as part of a bundle thing with some writer friends. When thinking about this story idea, I got the thought to do it as a sort of interactive game-like thing... Though not really interactive in terms of making decisions, but in terms of how you experience the story. The idea is that it's about two particular characters, and as you read the story you can choose which character's perspective you're seeing the scene from (and there's also side thoughts/observations connected to particular bits of text you can click on). So the story itself doesn't change, but you can choose how exactly to proceed through it.
However, I've had a rough time recently in terms of getting things done (which I feel really bad about), and I've missed the deadline on the bundle. I have the story sort-of-complete, and could turn it into a more standard written document, but... I still also want to try to get my original vision. So I've decided to keep working on it towards that end. But I also said I'd have something for you all, and I wanted to actually post my current draft document so you can see where I'm at. I'll leave it up to you whether you want to see this early version or wait for a more complete release, which I'll be working towards. The full arc of the story is here, but not necessarily both perspectives.
(Seriously, I feel awful about having a few different projects that I care about a whole lot that all feel like they're languishing, even if I fully intend on finishing them. Creating stuff can be really frustrating sometimes. Sigh.)
ANYWAYS. Here's the story itself, though I will note that the googledoc is really janky because I am using it in a weird way to represent my idea, and thus it's going to not necessarily display correctly on mobile. You'll hopefully get what I mean when you see it. (And you'll see what I mean in terms of it being done but only half done)
Synopsis:
Casey is the leader of the Rejects, a club of weirdos and troublemakers who are always up to something. Elodie is the student council president trying to keep things in order and make their college a better place. The two of them hate each other, having spent most of their time at university at odds with one another. When Casey finally sees an opportunity to blackmail Elodie over an old secret, she might be opening up a bigger can of worms than she expects...
Also, check out the art that my friend Liv did for the characters!!
Comments
Jackie
That ending is so devastatingly beautiful, I love this story, instant favorite!
Little My's sibling
How can someone be so clueless?! 10/10 great story
SingularCurve
That ending though, Amazing and true and tear jerking in just the right way. I was kind of interrupted by the style at first but after reading it through it makes more sense to me. Mnnn I think I love this story!
