Celebrity By Default v. 2 - Lessons I've Learnt From My Mother

[molly_cule]

Hi everyone. I know I’ve been a bit quiet lately, but life’s been changing fairly rapidly which has made it hard for me to write. I’ve started on the topic of “Lament to Magenta”, but I wasn’t happy with what I came up with, so here’s a second look at “Celebrity by Default”, which I had meant to write a few weeks ago but didn’t seem appropriate at

Comments

[divamelisande]

Wow! Great story.

[stillbeing]

Thanks . . . I'm not too sure about the ending, but until I can do better, it'll do . . . I finished it at about 3am last night, which is increasingly feeling later and later these days. I quickly read over it again today. I've had this one running around in my head for a while, and I'm wondering now if it can't be developed into something longer, but I thought I'd see what others think . . . Do you thinkit could be fleshed out more into a longer piece?

[divamelisande]

Ending is awesome. As is rest. Moral of celebrity by default: famousness kills. How would you flesh it out? Narrate the honeymoon, dwell on the evil mother, or continue on?

Cheers,
Teddy

[stillbeing]

If I was to flesh it out, I'd probably just build on what I've got there, add more dialogue between the mother and the daughter, perhaps provide more of a history of Bernadette & Darren juxtaposed with what's published, just generally flesh it out . . . I can't really see an continuation/ending that doesn't involve the horrible, horrible death of one of the two main characters, so I'd have to think more carefully about the path I'd take . . . it just seemed when I was writing it that it could turn into something longer, as if it was more of a synopsis of a story rather than something complete - that said, the original intention was for a shorter story anyway.

And remember, all of these stories have a strong bias of author personality and opinion ingrained in them, as do most stories, really. Celebrity may not mean certain downfall and calamity; it's more the self-serving, self-debasing kind I'm interested in :-P

[sshatteredd]

hey cool, I like this one very much!