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marvel_bang, working on the sequel to With These Hungry Eyes. And for once in my life, I've actually outlined an entire long fic before I started writing. Like, I know what the ending is already, and how I'm going to get there.
Yeah, I'm surprised too.
I also do not need to wait for Camp NaNo to start again to begin working on this. It's better if I get a head start, so to speak, because my current estimate is that the story will be between 50-60k. I'm going to be here forever, but I don't have that kind of time. What helps, though, is that I have detailed notes about each scene and there's a little bit of flexibility too to change things as I need, which I find helpful. Currently it stands at 26 scenes, chapters to be figured out later.
Since part of the story is taking place in Texas, I dug through Spotify looking for some 80s/90s country songs to help inspire me. This is before modern country music turned into FUCK YEAH, MERICA! and is just pop music with a steel guitar and pisses me off. It's also the stuff I grew up with, and man, there are some kickass female artists from that time.
Amazingly I still remember many, many words to all these songs even though I haven't actively listened to them in well over a decade. I got mad at the first 90s country playlist I found because I needed to know that there was a Mary Chapin Carpenter song on there. Old Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood? Sign me the fuck up. The Chicks singing about not wanting to settle down in "Ready to Run"? Is that not the perfect song for Julianne?
Currently the playlist looks as follows:
Trisha Yearwood, Wrong Side of Memphis
I've been living on the wrong side of Memphis
Gonna bronze these blue suede shoes
These cowboy boots are gettin' kinda restless
They ain't gotta single thing to lose
Faith Hill, Wild One
She loves rock and roll,
They said it's satan's tongue,
She thinks they're too old,
They think she's too young,
And the battle lines are clearly drawn
She's a wild one,
With an angel's face,
She's a woman child in a state of grace,
When she was three years old on her daddy's knee,
He said you can be anything you want to be,
She's a wild one,
Runnin' free
The Chicks, Ready to Run
I feel the wind blow through my hair
I'm gonna be ready this time
I'll buy a ticket to anywhere
I'm gonna be ready this time (ready this time)
You see, it feels like I'm starting to care
And I'm gonna be ready this time (ready this time)
Oh, yeah
Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready to run
All I'm ready to do is have some fun
What's all this talk about love?
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Down at the Twist and Shout - I am so going to set the beginning of a bar fight to this song I swear to god
Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans
Never have drifted down a bayou stream
But I heard that music on the radio
And I swore some day I was gonna go
Down to Highway 10, past the Lafayette
There's the Baton Rouge and I won't forget
To send you a card with my regrets
'Cause I'm never gonna come back home
Jo Dee Messina, Heads Carolina, Tails California
Heads Carolina, tails California
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
Where don't matter long as we're goin'
Somewhere together, I got a quarter
Heads Carolina, tails California
Reba McEntire The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - yes this is technically a cover song but it's the superior version so we're using this one
Well, they hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his way
To Andy's house and back that night were mine
And his cheating wife had never left town
That's one body that'll never be found
You see little sister don't miss when she aims her gun
Don't mind me, I'm just getting nostalgic over music I don't listen to anymore, lol.
On a side note, this beast also needs a title.
marvel_bang, working on the sequel to With These Hungry Eyes. And for once in my life, I've actually outlined an entire long fic before I started writing. Like, I know what the ending is already, and how I'm going to get there. Yeah, I'm surprised too.
I also do not need to wait for Camp NaNo to start again to begin working on this. It's better if I get a head start, so to speak, because my current estimate is that the story will be between 50-60k. I'm going to be here forever, but I don't have that kind of time. What helps, though, is that I have detailed notes about each scene and there's a little bit of flexibility too to change things as I need, which I find helpful. Currently it stands at 26 scenes, chapters to be figured out later.
Since part of the story is taking place in Texas, I dug through Spotify looking for some 80s/90s country songs to help inspire me. This is before modern country music turned into FUCK YEAH, MERICA! and is just pop music with a steel guitar and pisses me off. It's also the stuff I grew up with, and man, there are some kickass female artists from that time.
Amazingly I still remember many, many words to all these songs even though I haven't actively listened to them in well over a decade. I got mad at the first 90s country playlist I found because I needed to know that there was a Mary Chapin Carpenter song on there. Old Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood? Sign me the fuck up. The Chicks singing about not wanting to settle down in "Ready to Run"? Is that not the perfect song for Julianne?
Currently the playlist looks as follows:
Trisha Yearwood, Wrong Side of Memphis
I've been living on the wrong side of Memphis
Gonna bronze these blue suede shoes
These cowboy boots are gettin' kinda restless
They ain't gotta single thing to lose
Faith Hill, Wild One
She loves rock and roll,
They said it's satan's tongue,
She thinks they're too old,
They think she's too young,
And the battle lines are clearly drawn
She's a wild one,
With an angel's face,
She's a woman child in a state of grace,
When she was three years old on her daddy's knee,
He said you can be anything you want to be,
She's a wild one,
Runnin' free
The Chicks, Ready to Run
I feel the wind blow through my hair
I'm gonna be ready this time
I'll buy a ticket to anywhere
I'm gonna be ready this time (ready this time)
You see, it feels like I'm starting to care
And I'm gonna be ready this time (ready this time)
Oh, yeah
Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready to run
All I'm ready to do is have some fun
What's all this talk about love?
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Down at the Twist and Shout - I am so going to set the beginning of a bar fight to this song I swear to god
Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans
Never have drifted down a bayou stream
But I heard that music on the radio
And I swore some day I was gonna go
Down to Highway 10, past the Lafayette
There's the Baton Rouge and I won't forget
To send you a card with my regrets
'Cause I'm never gonna come back home
Jo Dee Messina, Heads Carolina, Tails California
Heads Carolina, tails California
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
Where don't matter long as we're goin'
Somewhere together, I got a quarter
Heads Carolina, tails California
Reba McEntire The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - yes this is technically a cover song but it's the superior version so we're using this one
Well, they hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his way
To Andy's house and back that night were mine
And his cheating wife had never left town
That's one body that'll never be found
You see little sister don't miss when she aims her gun
Don't mind me, I'm just getting nostalgic over music I don't listen to anymore, lol.
On a side note, this beast also needs a title.
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Date: 2021-05-14 06:56 pm (UTC)Oh I love your playlist! My mom shifted to country music when I hit 5th grade-ish and I very much remember hearing all those songs (and omg yes, I hate the MERICA!!! stadium rock bullshit country devolved into >:\ it's just... no. stop. please). So glad you found some good tunes to inspire you through this. Always approve of a solid playlist!
On a side note, this beast also needs a title.
When in doubt, song lyrics?? Honestly, titles forever puzzle me. I see people talk about their struggles with tags or summaries or anything in the actual story, which I'm like "Eh, I think I have a good handle on all that" and then the title field in AO3 stares at me and I just scream and collapse lol LIKE WHY IS THIS SHIT SO HARD????
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Date: 2021-05-15 12:17 pm (UTC)And thank you! Your playlists are always top notch. I need to build in some other songs to it still, but I figured that Julianne would probably be into recent pop but older country.
Of course, I still think of Val, and the fact that Val HATES ALL OF THIS WHAT THE FUCK while Darill grins and puts her headphones on as not to bother himAnd... yeah. I keep thinking the right title will jump out at me so the current name is "Hungry Eyes 2" lol Since the first one was inspired by Dirty Dancing, maybe I should go with something from that? Or "What's Meant to be Will Always Find a Way," which is the only lyric that's resonated so far. I have time to get there.