Note: Brandy

About Brandy

2008-11-30

Hi, okay I have four chapters of Brandy done now and I suppose this is a good time to kick back and talk about her. Some people like to know what's going on in an author's head, some people don't. What's going on in my head is this...

Brandy is basically the same character as "Pissy" from the novella by the same name that rache wrote last year. A college girl who is fundamentally different from the people around her. When Pissy got to college, she immediately came out of the closet as it were and made no secret of the fact that she has a major fetish for watersports. I loved that character. She was open and cute and completely charming with a sense of innocence...I waned to know her. Hell, I wanted to be her and I suppose a lot of the character was based on myself and my own college experience in the sense that I look back on it and think, "If I'd had real balls, I would have just been myself from day one." I'd have been a loud and proud lesbian, is what I'm saying. But I was 18 and so far in the closet it wasn't funny. I had a boyfriend I hated and I didn't really like myself very much, I'd picked my university based on distance from everyone I knew, blah bla blah...But I didn't take advantage of it the way Pissy does.

Anyway, so that was my wishful thinking and my what-if story and I took Pissy and turned her into a budding pre-op transsexual and renamed her Brandy. She comes out of the closet with her true sexuality as soon as she steps on campus. She's naive and totally fearless the way only superheroes and small children can be. She's the best part of humanity and that's how I'm approaching the character and the story. Brandy is Superman who takes off the disguise after wearing it for 18 years straight and now she's determined never to put it back on.

Maybe all that sounds kinda too serious, a little on the heavy side, but that's what I'm trying to say beneath all the fun. The obvious elements in the story are hopefully what most readers focus on and everything else is just sorta subliminal. :) As I mentioned before in other notes, Brandy is more or less my little transgender soap opera. I have chapter 5 in mind right now and I'll write it soon. Basically that will cover her night out with Stu and what's going on there. Every girl needs a brother figure in her life and Stu is it, but you know what they say: Incest is Best and Stu is doubtlessly interested in Brandy, just as she's expressed her own interest in him. We'll have to see how it goes.

And that's it for the background stuff. Thanks.

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Another shot of Brandy

2008-08-30

Yeah, I got a lot of emails...Relatively speaking, because the transgender fanbase is somewhat smaller than it is for other themes. I was very pleased with the response and so I wrote another chapter this morning and just submitted it.

This isn't some kind of veiled plea for feedback, but it does illustrate the point that it's a lot easier to get motivated with some friendly pushing. I'm sure every author here would share that sentiment.

And anyway, so I'm just kinda on cruise control. I guess Brandy stories will be about 7.5K words long and that's a pretty good length, very author friendly. I can do that before lunch and it frees me up for other things. I have no real plot yet, but the characters are firming up. So that's nice. I'm having fun.

Bye!

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Brandy

2008-08-25

I've been getting the short end of the stick because rache keeps stealing my stories...So much for organizing, huh? But I did get to keep one, largely because it's probably the first chapter of a much longer tale.

Brandy is a fun little read. I started it, oh...A month ago? But then "Girl Fag" totally derailed everything else I was doing, including Brandy. Thankfully, after writing 7 chapters back-to-back, even rache needs to recharge her batteries. So setting GF aside, we picked up Brandy and cranked it out last night.

If this post makes zero sense to you...Then I'm kind of grinning. If does make sense, well, that's cool too. I'm trying to remember my ASSTR password right now so I can update my web site...What a pain! It isn't 'rosebud'???? shoot.