I highly recommend not talking about your project to anyone at this point, because it's at a very fragile point of development, by which I mean that it will sound like the dumbest thing ever if you try to describe it to someone.
Actually, I find this is the case even for work that isn't mine. Like, have you ever tried to describe the plot of the book you're reading to a random person you're sitting next to on an airplane (or bus/train/what have you)? There seems to be a rule that it will sound incredibly dumb.
"See, there's this really emo guy? And his dad's ghost wants him to get revenge for his murder. The dad's murder, I mean. The dad was killed by his own brother, who's gone and married emo guy's mother. But it's even weirder than that because emo guy totally has a thing for his mother. Meanwhile, there's this whole political thing because emo guy's dad? Was the king. And now emo guy's uncle is calling the shots. And they're all under threat of invasion. And that's, like, just the setup. It gets more complicated."
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Date: 2006-08-07 12:09 am (UTC)Actually, I find this is the case even for work that isn't mine. Like, have you ever tried to describe the plot of the book you're reading to a random person you're sitting next to on an airplane (or bus/train/what have you)? There seems to be a rule that it will sound incredibly dumb.
"See, there's this really emo guy? And his dad's ghost wants him to get revenge for his murder. The dad's murder, I mean. The dad was killed by his own brother, who's gone and married emo guy's mother. But it's even weirder than that because emo guy totally has a thing for his mother. Meanwhile, there's this whole political thing because emo guy's dad? Was the king. And now emo guy's uncle is calling the shots. And they're all under threat of invasion. And that's, like, just the setup. It gets more complicated."