gather around...it's story time!

For the past couple of weeks I've gotten in the mode of writing. I've also changed the method in which I've been writing in hopes of actually completing a full story. Usually I'll get an idea for a story from a single event that I have imagined up. Usually a small but very dramatic situation. And I'll write down the story, from the beginning with that idea in mind. But now I've started to write ideas (in Word) as expcerts, and just write other excerpts that came along on later days when I was inspired. Sometimes the expcert even flourishes into something extra or different that could work better for the story. I also began writing the characters' synopsis. So when I get the expcerts down, I can judge their reactions much better and figure out what they would do or think next. It's goign pretty well I might add. I think I have maybe 5 or 8 page written of expcerts (not sure which number it is). And I've got musical and art references to them. Perhaps I'll even have astrologial traits and a color/element to add to their personalities, you know to explain them more precicely.

I'm not sure what the story is about, btu I do know that I want a weird relationship going on between a woman and man that live in the same apartment building. They despise each other, but only becasue they have such passion for each other. Their emotions are confused and when they think they hate each other the most, it actually fuels that passion. Anyhow, the first expcert that came to mind was the woman sneaking into the guys apartment while he ws sleeping (via spare key under the door mat) and screwing his brains out. But NOT staying to talk about "feelings". She actually leaves him the very moment they finish their 'love making' without a word. And he can not understand what the heck she had done that for...because up until that point they hated each other. The next day, and all the days following, she's cold to him, belittles him, treats him like crap basically...but enters his room on random nights to express her feelings for him. They talk little about their lives with each other, and barely talk about everyday things like the weather and such. The only communicating they do is through sex, basically. I got this idea from Ayn Rand (suprise, suprise). It was inspired from Howard Roark and Dominique Francon's relationship. But only in my story they wouldn't let down that guard and get mushy with each other as Ayn Rand let Dominique get. And instead of Howard as the man being the cold one (typical of a man, but so unforgiving and "player" like), it's the woman who is absent of feeling and sets this as the mood for her and the guy in her apartment building. BUT (and there's always a big but), The chick has a boyfriend! But she's not being cruel to a nice man who is loving and greatful for her or anything. Her boyfriend is a cock-sucking son-of-a-bitch who cheats on her regularly. She knows about it and stays with him. Why? Because she's got this weird complex that allows her to want to punish herself (for some fucked up reason that is her mother's fault...well at least that's where I'm going with it now), and also because he's her financial crutch. He knows she doesn't love him and never had (they met on these terms) but he just needed someone to spite his father, so that the people in his social class could talk behind his back about his son and his "cherity girl". Anyhow, the story is a somewhat predictable love story, but I want it to be about something more, but I'm not sure just where it's heading yet. But I dont want something stupid and cheesy, you know?

We'll see where it goes...