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Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:04 pm
gyrfalcon says...



For a long time now, I've had those two words stuck in my head, bouncing around from one side to the other. They don't really mean anything (as of yet) but I get the idea that I'd really like to build a story around them, perhaps something steampunk or urban fantasy. What do you guys think 'penny apiece' refers to? Is anyone else getting the spark of inspiration?
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Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:49 pm
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'Lo Gyr. ^_^

Er, yes. I don't suppose I could steal them from you...? ^_~ But a bit more to the point, I don't know what they refer--can't say I've any linear thought. They're the type of words I'd simply set on a page at the top, and start writing below....

(Though honestly, 'penny apiece' somehow makes me imagine something like microchips--dubbed 'pennies'--either stolen; or perhaps assigned. Everyone with a 'penny' in their wrist. Illegal messing with them, changing them... If they were identity chips or some such thing.)







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Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:44 pm
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Penny apiece thoughts...



Ooh, shiny!

Buy lunch with it.

Who's got the penny?

A group of people, and each one's got a penny apiece?

What are they, soldiers? In a country where they take a penny instead of a shilling when they join up?

A girl called Penny, and she's in pieces. Maybe she's got Multiple Personality Disorder? Lots of pieces of her?

Loads of clones, and they're all called Penny?

Everyone has a penny? Everyone's rich? Everyone's poor?




... I could go on, but is this the sort of thing you want?
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Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:41 pm
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Yes, yes, this is wonderful! You're both geniuses--keep it going!

A few ideas of my own:

A low-rent assassin who gets paid a penny for each assassination...or puts a penny on each of his victims (in their mouths, in their pockets?).

Sharpened pennies used as weapons?

An old, grubby man in the street, selling second chances for a penny each?

Keep it going, this rocks!
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Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:01 am
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Wow. I like your assasination idea, I'd definatly read that. I'd probably finish it in a day if the writing is good (I haven't read any of your writing.. I don't think...)
The first think that comes to my mind is based off of a poem that I wrote for NaPo called garage sale of memories.

A penny for each memory.

All I got, love the assasination one. it rockx.
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Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:06 am
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Oy, more? But haven't you got to light on one, at the end? ^_^'

...Penny, a piece--penny could be a slang scrap that kids used for souls--or for the "other" that is inarguably present in humanity. Pennies, then, in pieces--broken people.

Penny Apiece--suppose it could also be about things being worthless. Perhaps a game, or a system in which 'pennies' are given, token pay or recompense nearly mocking in its lack of value.

A game that goes with a nursery rhyme, 'penny a'piece, penny a'piece. drop me hand if 'tis slick with grease...'

Something almost meaningless...but suppose those with grease-hands do something particular; perhaps work below ground, in clockwork; or gov. men.


Ha, oy, 'tis too much fun to think up arbitrary threads for a tale. ^_^





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Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:38 pm
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Well, the idea is that I shall light on one, but I rarely ever use just one story idea to a story. Gypsie Eyes is about three or four. And anyway, other people can use these too!
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Fri May 02, 2008 5:26 pm
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You won't hate me for this?

A girl who slips a penny to anyone she likes. I know, it's stupid.
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Fri May 02, 2008 6:43 pm
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Tis not stupid!

I should like to thank all of you for you invaluable help--this has now begun to take a foggy kind of shape in my head, and there's a character named "Tuppence" who is a nearly direct result of one of Imp's ideas, about penny=soul...
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Fri May 02, 2008 9:06 pm
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:shock:

Can I give you advice? Don't call your character that. It is an English slang word which means a certain part of a girl's anatomy. :oops:
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Fri May 02, 2008 9:19 pm
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It's an oldish word, Heidi...

What about Thrippence, Gyr? Or Ha'penny (HAYP-nee) with half a soul?
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Sat May 03, 2008 2:42 am
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Whoops, didn't know, shall have to, erm, take care of that...
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Heidigirl666 wrote::shock:

Can I give you advice? Don't call your character that. It is an English slang word which means a certain part of a girl's anatomy. :oops:


Oy, that's, er, true...but it's also the name of a brilliant Agatha Christie character. Never read Tommy and Tuppence mysteries, my friend?
















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