Oh, don't worry, bb! I never have time to catch up on my flist and read stuff properly, let alone comment!
Oooh, Beside You. My baby.
It started with a prompt over at the ai_kinkmeme. The prompt asked for a high school AU where Adam's the star quarterback of the school and Kris is the quiet music kid; they get paired for a project, of course, and they become fast friends. I loved the idea, and then I heard about the Kradam Bigbang, and another I had for it kind of fizzled out, so I took on the high school AU prompt and started writing.
I remember it started out in the past tense. I got about 5000 words in before I realized I was stopping myself from writing in present tense, so I went back and reworked it.
In the initial planning stages, I had the idea that Adam and Kris' sudden friendship sparked rumours about them. That scene where Adam confronts his football teammates on their offensive locker room talk was going to be about accusations of Adam being gay. Sick and tired of keeping it inside, Adam was originally going to come out. The story was going to be much more about his sexual identity crisis, and the fallout of coming out. Then I watched this video on YouTube about media representations of coming out, specially how it tends to be a plot device and almost always dramatic and accompanied by negative repercussions. A few days after a saw the video, I was out for a walk -- walks are really good for my writing process -- and the video came back to me, and I realized I didn't want the story to be about Adam's sexuality, at least not exclusively. I decided a better story would be Adam's struggle with his father's plans for his future and the fact that he couldn't get them to jibe with his own. I decided I was more interested in exploring his decision to pursue a music career. I decided his sexuality would be a subplot; his feelings for Kris and his status as star quarterback would be the main drive of his inner conflict instead.
After that, the story just sort of wrote itself. I wrote the penultimate Adam/Kris showdown (when they've finished their project and they have that moment of miscommunication) by hand, in a Chinese restaurant while eating general tao chicken. I still have that rough draft somewhere; the sheets are filled with cross-outs and carrots to add words and sentences, and the margins are full of scrawled sentences.
I was going to write an Epilogue. It was going to take place a few years down the road, with Adam and Kris living together in LA. I scrapped it, though, because I ultimately felt the story was about their journey toward each other and Adam's gained clarity of vision.
I have a few deleted scenes on my hard drive. A prom ficlet, and a scene from Adam's first year in LA, where his new roommate (Danny, lol) finds out Adam has a boyfriends and goes into full-blown gay panic until Adam talks him down with logic.
I have a surprising amount to say about this story, apparently! I hope that's enlightening enough? Feel free to ask more questions if you want :)
Thanks for the well wishes regarding my dad. He's doing a lot better, thankfully.
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Date: 2011-02-05 06:42 am (UTC)Oooh, Beside You. My baby.
It started with a prompt over at the ai_kinkmeme. The prompt asked for a high school AU where Adam's the star quarterback of the school and Kris is the quiet music kid; they get paired for a project, of course, and they become fast friends. I loved the idea, and then I heard about the Kradam Bigbang, and another I had for it kind of fizzled out, so I took on the high school AU prompt and started writing.
I remember it started out in the past tense. I got about 5000 words in before I realized I was stopping myself from writing in present tense, so I went back and reworked it.
In the initial planning stages, I had the idea that Adam and Kris' sudden friendship sparked rumours about them. That scene where Adam confronts his football teammates on their offensive locker room talk was going to be about accusations of Adam being gay. Sick and tired of keeping it inside, Adam was originally going to come out. The story was going to be much more about his sexual identity crisis, and the fallout of coming out. Then I watched this video on YouTube about media representations of coming out, specially how it tends to be a plot device and almost always dramatic and accompanied by negative repercussions. A few days after a saw the video, I was out for a walk -- walks are really good for my writing process -- and the video came back to me, and I realized I didn't want the story to be about Adam's sexuality, at least not exclusively. I decided a better story would be Adam's struggle with his father's plans for his future and the fact that he couldn't get them to jibe with his own. I decided I was more interested in exploring his decision to pursue a music career. I decided his sexuality would be a subplot; his feelings for Kris and his status as star quarterback would be the main drive of his inner conflict instead.
After that, the story just sort of wrote itself. I wrote the penultimate Adam/Kris showdown (when they've finished their project and they have that moment of miscommunication) by hand, in a Chinese restaurant while eating general tao chicken. I still have that rough draft somewhere; the sheets are filled with cross-outs and carrots to add words and sentences, and the margins are full of scrawled sentences.
I was going to write an Epilogue. It was going to take place a few years down the road, with Adam and Kris living together in LA. I scrapped it, though, because I ultimately felt the story was about their journey toward each other and Adam's gained clarity of vision.
I have a few deleted scenes on my hard drive. A prom ficlet, and a scene from Adam's first year in LA, where his new roommate (Danny, lol) finds out Adam has a boyfriends and goes into full-blown gay panic until Adam talks him down with logic.
I have a surprising amount to say about this story, apparently! I hope that's enlightening enough? Feel free to ask more questions if you want :)
Thanks for the well wishes regarding my dad. He's doing a lot better, thankfully.
How've you been?