OK, so now that I've gone through everything that went wrong with "Notorious: The Ballad of Candy Cane Brenner", I now have the tools to correct those mistakes and make some much-needed changes to the story.
One of the changes is that the story is about a young pop star who never really got the chance to grow up; her career tanked, not because of what she had done, but because she lived in a country that liked to keep their celebrities as children instead of the adults those young pop stars should have become. (No wonder why most of them go crazy in their 20s!)
Also, her connection to several celebrities will be explored, yet the story of Mimi Johnson is a minor subplot that won't be explored until Candy goes to Arizona.
With that in mind, I'm ready to begin the story again. But I can't do anything about it now because November is coming and I have to get ready for NaNoWriMo. But I'll start again in January.
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Candy Cane's Albums
In the story "Notorious: The Ballad of Candy Cane Brenner", Candy Cane had released three music albums before her career tanked. The albums are as follows:
Sweet Candy
Candy Cane's debut album (which she made when she was 12 years old), in which she gains her musical footing. With songs like That’s How I Want It (her first hit single), All-American Girl, Let Go, and The Best of Both Worlds, Candy exudes a childlike innocence that captured the hearts and minds of many Americans, especially adults looking for a positive role model for their daughters to follow. (Most boys weren't allowed to listen to her music.)
The songs on the album are as follows:
Candy & Spice
Candy Cane's second album, released in 1998, appears to be a carbon copy of "Sweet Candy". Although most of the songs on the album became popular, the content was still the same, as if Candy Cane never grew up.
Anyway, the songs are as follows:
A Trip to the Candy Shop
In Candy Cane's third album, released in 2004, Candy Cane is beginning to grow up, due to songs like "Whole Lotta Reason" and "Goodbye to Innocence". Yet, the song "Notorious" explores her difficulty with attaining fame; the song replaced "Mysterious Star" on later releases.
Bonus:
Candy Cane wrote the theme song to the popular supernatural movie "Frostfall", which won two Grammys and an Oscar. “Notorious” replaced “Mysterious Star” when the song became popular.
Sweet Candy
Candy Cane's debut album (which she made when she was 12 years old), in which she gains her musical footing. With songs like That’s How I Want It (her first hit single), All-American Girl, Let Go, and The Best of Both Worlds, Candy exudes a childlike innocence that captured the hearts and minds of many Americans, especially adults looking for a positive role model for their daughters to follow. (Most boys weren't allowed to listen to her music.)
The songs on the album are as follows:
- All-American Girl
- Let Go
- Pretty in Pink
- That’s How I want it (which became Candy Cane’s #1 single)
- Manic Woman
- I Dare You
- This Time Again
- In the Dreamtime
- Oceanside
- Bear With Me
- Sweet Rhythm
- The Best of Both Worlds
Candy & Spice
Candy Cane's second album, released in 1998, appears to be a carbon copy of "Sweet Candy". Although most of the songs on the album became popular, the content was still the same, as if Candy Cane never grew up.
Anyway, the songs are as follows:
- Cross-Country Tour
- Teenage Blues
- Victorious
- I’m tired of being the foolish one
- Rhapsody of Life
- Hope Is What I Got
- Blast from the Past
- Live from the Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Friends
- Dream on
A Trip to the Candy Shop
In Candy Cane's third album, released in 2004, Candy Cane is beginning to grow up, due to songs like "Whole Lotta Reason" and "Goodbye to Innocence". Yet, the song "Notorious" explores her difficulty with attaining fame; the song replaced "Mysterious Star" on later releases.
- Candy Bomb
- Toxic Illusion
- 1 More Nightmare
- Bad Runaround
- *Notorious (This song quickly became Candy Cane's biggest hit single, as well as the theme for the story.)
- A Flash Of Destiny
- Eternal Soldier
- Petals
- Weapons Of Religion
- Just Another Crusade
- Whole Lotta Reason
- The Fallen Glory
- Goodbye to Innocence
Bonus:
Candy Cane wrote the theme song to the popular supernatural movie "Frostfall", which won two Grammys and an Oscar. “Notorious” replaced “Mysterious Star” when the song became popular.
- Burning Frost (Theme song from the 2001 movie "Frostfall")
- *Mysterious Star (replaced by "Notorious")
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Did Mimi Johnson really destroy Candy Cane's Music Career?
OK, this might sound like a creepypasta, but let me explain:
On Tuesday, August 1, 1995, a disabled girl named Mimi Johnson was kidnapped and murdered while she was on a family vacation. The news of Mimi's death spreads throughout her hometown of Bolindale, New Mexico, where many concerned families with disabled children decided to send their children away to cities in Oregon, Nevada, and California rather than allow them to be targeted and killed. The next year, a young woman named Pamela Jensen wrote the song "Mimi" in memory of Mimi Johnson. Pamela's band, The Psychic Symbols, later performed that song during a summer concert. The crowd's reaction to the song led to a 19-year-old man named Derrick Fischer to confess to killing the little girl. He was later beaten to death by a group of angry people.
But that's not all, as the Psychic Symbols discovered that the song "Mimi" was the cause of Derrick's false confession and senseless death, so they decided the song would never see the light of day. However, on Wednesday, April 24, 1996, the band's first album The Fallen Dreams was released in music stores, with "Mimi" being the most-played song on the radio. This upset Pamela and she ordered radio stations to stop playing the song. She also ordered Odin Entertainment to take "Mimi" off the soundtrack and replace it with another song.
Yet the DJs and the businessmen didn't listen to her which was when the tragedies began.
On Tuesday, July 23, 1996, 23-year-old Paul Kleeson of West Port, Florida was struck by a car and killed while he was walking his dog. The driver of the car that killed him was listening to "Mimi" on the radio.
On Friday, December 13, 1996, a family of three teenagers and two adults, looking to start a family rock band, were struck by lightning and killed after playing a song cover. What was the song in question? "Mimi" by The Psychic Symbols.
When The Psychic Symbols released a reissued version of The Fallen Dreams as well as their second album The Valley of Storms on Monday, October 6, 1997, 15 people were killed when a fight broke out due to the fact that the song "Mimi" had been replaced with a song called "Scryer". The band eventually got their wish and "Mimi" was removed from the radio.
By then, it was too late, as "Mimi" was responsible for many more deaths.
On Thursday, May 6, 1999, the popular punk-rock band The All-American Princesses were scheduled to performed the song "Mimi" at an end-of-the-year concert at Gothanburg Academy in Miami, Florida. Yet, a riot broke out and 37 students were killed. The band in question barely escaped with their lives and later sued the school for damages.
On Monday, October 16, 2000 , popular karaoke singer Jackie Stanley (given name Matthew Knox) was beaten to death after performing "Mimi"; this prompted many bars and clubs in the United States to ban the song.
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, 16-year-old Laura Mercer was killed in the infamous Lochland High School shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. (57 people were killed in the shooting.) She was listening to the song "Mimi" the night before her death; the tape containing the song was found in her bookbag.
At this point, Pamela found herself regretting that she had written "Mimi" in the first place. She felt as if little Mimi Johnson was tormenting her from beyond the grave. A trip to a local psychic revealed that in order for her to save her dying band and bring peace to Mimi, Pamela would have to find a way to destroy the song. Despite the anger at the deaths of many people and calls for "Mimi" to be taken off the air, the song continued to be popular. Not even The Psychic Symbols' third and fourth albums The Radical Tedium and Salvation of Night was able to shake off the public's obsession with "Mimi". Pamela wondered if she was forever doomed to be a 1-song wonder, in which the song killed anyone who listened to it.
But a miracle happened on Monday, August 22, 2005.
Famous pop singer/actress Candice Canelva Brenner, better known as Candy Cane, came to Bolindale, New Mexico to participate in a charity concert to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Yet many people were convinced that Candy Cane was actually Mimi Johnson and began singing the lyrics to "Mimi" whenever they saw her. Yet Candy Cane created the song "Notorious", which expresses her displeasure with being referred to a murdered child. She also sang the song "Mimi" at the concert, yet changed most of the lyrics to scold a town obsessed with the memory of a dead child and rejecting their own disabled children rather than raise them.
And the rest, they say, was history.
The song "Mimi" was eventually taken off many music websites and the radio; it had already been banned from clubs and karaoke bars. It was also removed from The Psychic Symbols' discography and deleted from Pamela's LiveJournal blog and MySpace page.
So, did Mimi Johnson destroy Candy Cane's music career? Before we can answer that question, there was an unexpected outcome to this story. The band responsible for "Mimi" was later killed in a bus accident on Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 10 years to the day Pamela Jensen had wrote the song "Mimi". She was 27 years old.
As for Candy Cane, she announced in 2011 that she was taking a permanent hiatus from her acting and singing career. She was 27 years old. Did Mimi kill Candy Cane? The answer to that question is still unknown.
On Tuesday, August 1, 1995, a disabled girl named Mimi Johnson was kidnapped and murdered while she was on a family vacation. The news of Mimi's death spreads throughout her hometown of Bolindale, New Mexico, where many concerned families with disabled children decided to send their children away to cities in Oregon, Nevada, and California rather than allow them to be targeted and killed. The next year, a young woman named Pamela Jensen wrote the song "Mimi" in memory of Mimi Johnson. Pamela's band, The Psychic Symbols, later performed that song during a summer concert. The crowd's reaction to the song led to a 19-year-old man named Derrick Fischer to confess to killing the little girl. He was later beaten to death by a group of angry people.
But that's not all, as the Psychic Symbols discovered that the song "Mimi" was the cause of Derrick's false confession and senseless death, so they decided the song would never see the light of day. However, on Wednesday, April 24, 1996, the band's first album The Fallen Dreams was released in music stores, with "Mimi" being the most-played song on the radio. This upset Pamela and she ordered radio stations to stop playing the song. She also ordered Odin Entertainment to take "Mimi" off the soundtrack and replace it with another song.
Yet the DJs and the businessmen didn't listen to her which was when the tragedies began.
On Tuesday, July 23, 1996, 23-year-old Paul Kleeson of West Port, Florida was struck by a car and killed while he was walking his dog. The driver of the car that killed him was listening to "Mimi" on the radio.
On Friday, December 13, 1996, a family of three teenagers and two adults, looking to start a family rock band, were struck by lightning and killed after playing a song cover. What was the song in question? "Mimi" by The Psychic Symbols.
When The Psychic Symbols released a reissued version of The Fallen Dreams as well as their second album The Valley of Storms on Monday, October 6, 1997, 15 people were killed when a fight broke out due to the fact that the song "Mimi" had been replaced with a song called "Scryer". The band eventually got their wish and "Mimi" was removed from the radio.
By then, it was too late, as "Mimi" was responsible for many more deaths.
On Thursday, May 6, 1999, the popular punk-rock band The All-American Princesses were scheduled to performed the song "Mimi" at an end-of-the-year concert at Gothanburg Academy in Miami, Florida. Yet, a riot broke out and 37 students were killed. The band in question barely escaped with their lives and later sued the school for damages.
On Monday, October 16, 2000 , popular karaoke singer Jackie Stanley (given name Matthew Knox) was beaten to death after performing "Mimi"; this prompted many bars and clubs in the United States to ban the song.
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, 16-year-old Laura Mercer was killed in the infamous Lochland High School shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. (57 people were killed in the shooting.) She was listening to the song "Mimi" the night before her death; the tape containing the song was found in her bookbag.
At this point, Pamela found herself regretting that she had written "Mimi" in the first place. She felt as if little Mimi Johnson was tormenting her from beyond the grave. A trip to a local psychic revealed that in order for her to save her dying band and bring peace to Mimi, Pamela would have to find a way to destroy the song. Despite the anger at the deaths of many people and calls for "Mimi" to be taken off the air, the song continued to be popular. Not even The Psychic Symbols' third and fourth albums The Radical Tedium and Salvation of Night was able to shake off the public's obsession with "Mimi". Pamela wondered if she was forever doomed to be a 1-song wonder, in which the song killed anyone who listened to it.
But a miracle happened on Monday, August 22, 2005.
Famous pop singer/actress Candice Canelva Brenner, better known as Candy Cane, came to Bolindale, New Mexico to participate in a charity concert to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Yet many people were convinced that Candy Cane was actually Mimi Johnson and began singing the lyrics to "Mimi" whenever they saw her. Yet Candy Cane created the song "Notorious", which expresses her displeasure with being referred to a murdered child. She also sang the song "Mimi" at the concert, yet changed most of the lyrics to scold a town obsessed with the memory of a dead child and rejecting their own disabled children rather than raise them.
And the rest, they say, was history.
The song "Mimi" was eventually taken off many music websites and the radio; it had already been banned from clubs and karaoke bars. It was also removed from The Psychic Symbols' discography and deleted from Pamela's LiveJournal blog and MySpace page.
So, did Mimi Johnson destroy Candy Cane's music career? Before we can answer that question, there was an unexpected outcome to this story. The band responsible for "Mimi" was later killed in a bus accident on Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 10 years to the day Pamela Jensen had wrote the song "Mimi". She was 27 years old.
As for Candy Cane, she announced in 2011 that she was taking a permanent hiatus from her acting and singing career. She was 27 years old. Did Mimi kill Candy Cane? The answer to that question is still unknown.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
What is the story supposed to be about?
Actually, I'm very glad you asked that question, seeing as I have a lot of info to go over and I don't have a lot of time to explain in full detail, but here we go:
I first created the story about a bullied disabled girl who ran away to Hollywood and later became a famous singer/actress, but I realized that that story was unrealistic and lame. So I had to scrap that plan.
But then I thought to myself what if there was a case of mistaken identity? Suppose that the little girl disappeared and everyone in the city believed that the pop star was her, not knowing that the little girl was probably dead. I wrote a good part of the story with that premise, but then it quickly fell apart BEFORE the main story could begin.
This also left me feeling unfulfilled.
At the same time, I discovered that several unnecessary subplots began to clog up the story and many unnecessary characters were taking attention away from the main character, so I had no choice but to pull the plug on the story.
Guess this goes to show you what happens when you get an idea for a story and forget to plan it out.
So what I must do is figure out what goes in the story instead of deciding how I want the story to go. Also, I have to decide which character can go into the story and which character doesn't. Plus, the events of the story (and the year the story takes place, as I'm a sucker for real-time fiction) must affect the characters involved, and that event must change the main character as well.
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