Date Posted: 30th Jan 2013 at 11:47 PM

The Middle Child, or, Rock Paper Scissors


Now what would be a good other title?

The Taxi Drivers, or, The Proper Shankel

...except that they won't be taxi drivers at all. But I like the "or" part. Work that in to the main.

Date Posted: 26th Jan 2013 at 12:51 PM

1. OA betroths P to ????
2. L gets pregnant
3. A moves out??
4. Glen frets re: his kids vs. "real" Shankels
5. OA arranges betrothal with alien > L's kid
6. P gets pregnant??
7. Ch gets bee in his bonnet re: N having same-age sibling
8. L worries re: rule, no place for a child.
9. L gives kid up via P because of Scandal

What does A think about all this?

Date Posted: 26th Jan 2013 at 12:48 PM

Casilda gets Grand Duke -- she's the one with four wives
Olga = Ernest, with some moody Goth at Julia
-The moody Goth realizes they want baybeez as soon as Olga is unavailable
Pitti-Sing = Grand Duke himself

Although why would there be some sort of conspiracy against her? Perhaps it's just avoiding something horrible. Academic probation, maybe?

Date Posted: 26th Jan 2013 at 12:45 PM

???: But where will we get witnesses?
P: Aw, bless! They've been watching us through that monitor for the past HOWEVERMANY slides.



************

L: Poppa! You don't mean that you'd have been happy to just marry some guy if Grandma told you to!
OA: I very much doubt that could be happy with anyone other than your dearest Mama. However, if my darling Myrna had happened to have been born male, then I should not have hesitated for a moment.

Date Posted: 26th Jan 2013 at 12:10 AM

1. Fancy garden party
2. Angela's apartment - day - hall
3. Street outside store - day
4. Inside store @ counter
5. Dressing rooms
6. Street outside store - day
7. Inside store @ counter/racks
8. Montage (?)
9. Nightclub
10. Somewhere for woohoo
11. Street outside store - evening
12. Angela's apartment - night - hall (?)
13. Alexander's home - day
14. Shop interior - day
15. Nightclub in far away place
16. DL's office lobby
17. DL's office
18. DL's office lobby #2
19. Garrett
20. Angela's apartment - LR
21. Alexander's BR in far away place
22. Fancy garden party #2

Date Posted: 26th Jan 2013 at 12:04 AM

The Boy = Alexander Goth
The Good Girl = Angela Pleasant
The Wolf = Don Lothario
The Girl's Mother = Mary-Sue Pleasant
The Shopgirl = Lilith Pleasant
The Shop Manager = Goopy GilsCarbo
The Boy's Father = Mortimer Goth
The Nightclub Singer - Florence Delarosa
The Secretary = Dina/Nina Caliente (whichever one is the blonde)

Date Posted: 26th Jan 2013 at 12:01 AM

So I don't have to pop open Bodyshop every time and can thin out those downloads:

Depth Charge
Flash Powder
Incendiary
Explosive


Anything with "bomb" in the name is a gray, eg, Mailbomb. I don't know which one of those I like best.

Date Posted: 25th Jan 2013 at 2:37 AM

Alexander loves Angela from afar. She likes him back. Don L. is a sleazebag interested in A. While out shopping, she runs into Lilith, a poor shop girl. "We could be twins!" Angela & Lilith Swap clothes for a joke. While in character, Son L seduces L, Mortimer sees, and sends Alex away from "bad girl" Angela. Alex meets a nightclub singer who loves him, but who sends him back to Angela. Meanwhile, L has gotten pregnant, fired, and rejected by Don L for secretary Dina. L is dying alone in a garrett when Angela finds her. Angela promises to raise the baby as her own, and does so in spite of society's sneers. Alex returns, sent by the nightclub singer, and tells Angela that he doesn't care what everyone else says: She's always been a "good girl," he wants to marry her, and the baby will be their first child.

Date Posted: 25th Jan 2013 at 1:36 AM

Currently I have lots of little pieces of paper on my desk -- and other places -- about things I want to remember for setting up Plot, snatches of dialog, side projects, and that kind of thing. Today I realized that I lost one of the pieces of paper that had stuff on it that I actually wanted to work on this morning. So, I am starting this to replace those little pieces of paper. (Well, that and I'm a sucker for collecting badges/stickers/medals/what-have-you.) I don't see any reason to make it private, but it will likely be confusing as all get-out and probably spoilery as well if you read any of my stories.

You have been warned.