The Twin Kcors

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The idea for the Twin Kcors started back when I first began Tuousrol-Voan, which I might add, is the story that Dekk Rant (the alter-ego that I had on I Can Has Cheezburger for a short time) is from. After this, I had many other ideas and stories that I started, including Population:200, Time Twist, The Raiders, and a story to take place after Tuousrol-Voan. Eventually The Traveler came along. It was around this time that I changed my name on a website call rockraidersunited.org to Retsnom Kcor (Rock Monster spelled backward). Thanks to this, I started to turn other words around and spelling them backward, and getting Reklats Kcor (Rock Stalker).

After a few months I got the idea of taking characters from all the stories I had already written and planned to write and put them in one place, on Retsnom Kcor. I did this for fun, but came up with a story anyway. In short, the good guys were there to destroy Reklats Kcor. After awhile the whole idea of it seemed better and better, and the more I thought about the more the different stories seemed to fit together and make sense. Then I came up with an order that the stories would take place and tried to figure out how the parts would work out together. The result is the following stories, in the general order they take place:

1. Time Twist
2. Population:200
3. The Raiders
4. {Currently Unnamed} (The first Tuousrol-Voan)
5. Tuousrol-Voan (Temporary name)
6. Frozen Flames
7. The Traveler
8. The Twin Kcors

They all basically go through the events before, during, and after the apocalypse, then further explains the apocalypse and takes all the surviving characters to the Twin Kcors. If you've already read The Traveler there were explanations and references in that. I.e. when The Traveler remembers where he got his hat from. The hat makes its first appearance in Time Twist belonging to the character Neil Verris. General summary of all the parts:

Time Twist- A scientist develops a time machine; a group of secret agents attempt to stop him from using it fails, and the remainder of the group must rescue their leader

Population:200- mutant carnivorous lizards are created by of the world's best scientists and kill off most of Earth's inhabitants in a matter of months

The Raiders- A king on a lost continent is forced to abandon his position as king and search for hidden gems which power a generator

Unnamed & Tuousrol-Voan - The Sun explodes and destroys all the planets orbiting it-but not before the inhabitants escape to a far off galaxy called Tuoursol-Voan. The robots they design to help them survive aren't exactly friendly though.

Frozen Flames- Two of the planets in Tuousrol-Voan go into war, making former friends enemies, and vice versa

The Traveler- The man behind the destruction

The Twin Kcors- The surviving characters from the other stories are brought to the planet Retsnom Kcor by the planet itself to help it destroy it's "brother" Reklats Kcor.

[moonmomma]

ok, this is so cool it's making me ;D ! Awesome project - I'm looking forward to being able to read all of it!

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Thank you! So far, The Traveler and Time Twist are done! Only two parts, but it's a lot closer than I was when I wrote the first part of The Traveler close to a year ago! It's funny how quickly this project became a huge part of my life

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I hate to "bump" this, but there are a few things I want to add quick. Now that Population:200 and The Raiders are done, I've decided to split all 8 parts into 3 groups. The first group, The Earth Trilogy/Neil Verris Trilogy (random temporary names. I refer to it as either one, because I'm not sure which name I like better) contains Time Twist, Population:200, and The Raiders. The second group is the three Tuousrol-Voan stories (Unnamed, Tuousrol-Voan, and Frozen Flames) and the last group is The Traveler and The Twin Kcors.

I'm not entirely sure why I did this, but I like it.

Now That I finished The Raiders and my second favorite character from The Twin Kcors is gone, it's gonna feel weird to not have him around. Granted, he wasn't in The Traveler, but... If I say anymore, it'll be a bit of a spoiler...

I'm not very happy with Population:200, and it will most likely recieve the most revision of all of them. It was my least favorite idea to begin with, but now that I've got it done it just seems... disappointing.

Not sure what made me post this, but...

[moonmomma]

Post and bump all you like! Keep us up-to-date on what you're working on I like seeing what other people are working on, and I find it motivating to post what I'm doing right now.

If a story isn't working out the way I want it to and I find myself disappointed by it, I often find that it helps if I punch things up some more. Raise the stakes. The stakes in Population:200 are already pretty high, going by your description above, but maybe try exaggerating the individual drama, or something. Don't be afraid of over-exaggerating - you can always tone it down if you need to, but first try punching it up to the maximum levels that you possibly can.

In the Sailor Moon story I just finished, at first I felt like it wasn't going anywhere because the menacing evil was just this vague evil-ly idea. Then I decided to personify it by making the evil-ly thing take over my heroine's best friend, Sailor Moon. So now the great superheroine Sailor Moon is evil and her best friend Naru (my main character) has to use her new powers to fight against her. That worked.

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I know some things that I want to change in it. I also had been planning to make the main character seem like more of a jerk than I really did, and also explain why he is such a jerk.

Personally, I liked the original draft of Population:200 (made a mistake and lost it) better than this. There were things wrong with it that I fixed in the new one, but it seemed much more exciting and suspenseful.

Please tell me if that made no sense.

[moonmomma]

absolutely makes sense!

it sounds like you've got an idea of what you want to do with it. like I said, don't be afraid to make things as dramatic and intense as you can.

another example: the novel I'm working on right now is something I got frustrated with and abandoned 15 years ago. just wasn't happy with it. so when I started thinking about it again, I really looked at the main characters' backgrounds. originally, the male main character, Roric, was just kind of bummed out because of his origins in a "barbaric" nomadic tribe. well, boo hoo. digging deeper, it turns out that he didn't just run away from his tribe; what happened was when he was 12 he couldn't tolerate the pain of the ritual tattooing he had to undergo. so his father beat him, disowned him, and kicked him out of the tribe. and THEN his father sold him to a man who severely abused him for the next three years in ways that made him feel even more ashamed of his past. (this isn't really a spoiler; it's all explained in chapter 3) so now i've REALLY upped the emotional stakes in his relationship with the female main character, as well as in their quest which involves, among other things, him having to go back to the tribe he was born into to learn some shamanic skills he's going to need to do the thing they're trying to do.

don't be afraid to take things to the edge and beyond. you can always tone it down later if you need to.