The Big Damn English Project
POSTED BY: Shrouded
UPDATED: Thursday, September 28, 2006 19:55
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Quote:How about hourglasses that are rigged to speed up? Or syringes and black vials? Sponge baths? Incredibly shiny clothes? Not wearing incredibly shiny clothes?
Originally posted by Shrouded:
As for Inara, I have... uhh... not much. So far, under my "ideas" list, "Geisha dolls" and "gun place setting."
Okay, I'm stopping now.
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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Haha, added them. 
Dunno if I'll be able to get 'em all... but who knows. 
By the way, I just finished the prologue this morning. It's in the BSR, but just for a quick link:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=13167#95449
Enjoy. 
Oh, and btw, Don, I wanted to have Miranda... but I didn't want to leave Book out. Just couldn't bring myself to do it. So I went with a more... uh... vague pilgrimage, I guess I could say.
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The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. - Steve Irwin, our Honorary BDH
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I would say going to Miranda fulfills all the requirements for being a pilgrimage...
I choose to rise instead of fall- U2
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It would, it woudl... but again, I want Book alive.
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The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. - Steve Irwin, our Honorary BDH
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So they gonna be making their pilgrimage towards being a family? (Just making a guess, and probably a wild one at that.)
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"Those grenades?"
"Captain don't want 'em."
"Jayne, we're robbing the place, we're not occupying it."
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You got the jist of it, I daresay. Like... finding serenity on Serenity (haha, laugh at bad-yet-appropriate puns) with each other. Unfortunately, the project only needs the prologue, and the character descriptions... though after I finish that, I'll probably continue to write these things, and tell stories and such... hee hee.
And I have just posted the second in the series: Kaylee!
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=13174
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The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. - Steve Irwin, our Honorary BDH
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You know what I would do? I would take an episode and convert it into a poem. You can summerise what happened in the episode, and it'll give you a basic frame to work with.
It would need to be an episode with the idea of pilgrimage, and for some reason Safe jumps to mind. Not only do you have River and Simon's journey on Serenity, but you have Simon's journey to find his sister, Mal's journey to get help for Book, Book's own journey that took him far from his dark past
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that we STILL no NOTHING about and may NEVER know because Joss is a BIG MEANIE!!!
and then you can end with how Simon and River have found their home in a place of travel, rather than the more traditional family home most people think of.
You could also explain that your piece is technically fanfiction and explain what fanfiction is. Heck, your teacher may even want to teach a class on the topic!
I'm really pleased to see your teacher exploring the themes behind The Canterbury Tales in such an interesting way. It's one of my favourite pieces of fiction.
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I WAS planning to do that, though I can;t on this project, as the project is just to come up with a prologue and describe at least 8 characters.
But, for my enjoyment, and my teacher's, and FFF.net's, I was planning on writing my very own set of "Canterbury Tales" stories featured around Firefly ("Tales From The 'Verse"), so you may very well see one of Safe, and all the other episodes, as well as stories only hinted at 9i.e., Washs juggling geese adventure, the never-finished story Simon was telling in out of Gas... etc.).
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The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. - Steve Irwin, our Honorary BDH
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Quote:Off to a good start, I'd say!
Originally posted by Shrouded:
Haha, added them.
By the way, I just finished the prologue this morning. It's in the BSR, but just for a quick link:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=13167#95449
Enjoy.
Oh, and btw, Don, I wanted to have Miranda... but I didn't want to leave Book out. Just couldn't bring myself to do it. So I went with a more... uh... vague pilgrimage, I guess I could say.
Two comments and/or suggestions: "Seeked out" should be "Sought out". Also, "respectful" (re: Inara) should be "respectable", which may ruin the syllable count, so maybe a synonym is needed, or a bit of rework. But I really don't think you want "respectful" there (check the dictionary definition!)
Now, as to Miranda and Book: you only need to meet the characters on the journey. That doesn't mean they all have to make it to the end! As I said, I haven't read the Tales so I don't know if any of his characters get met and left behind along the way, but you could do that if you want.
For that matter, you're not writing canon here, so your Book can make it there in one piece if you want him to. Or, make it Shakespearian and have him ride there on the nose of Serenity. Book = Yorick?
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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I want to put a vote in for the not wearing shiny clothes at this point, since naked mal has been so shamelessly espoused! 
After all, it is nice to have a lil' sum'n sum'n in there for the lads!
Am i being a lecherous hump? Can you blame me?
WE'RE GONNA CRASH? I DON'T WANNA CRASH!
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