Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Obligatory Updates
I'm not dead yet, you bastards and bitches! You thought you could pop open the champagne bottles? No, keep them in your cellars, I've got a lot of saliva salvaged, and will make it my business to spit in each and every bottle.
So I'm here, still no publisher for [The Obscure Opus] but at least no more have died yet, which means that they haven't read it. I don't understand why not though. My manuscripts all glow and emit hums in the slush piles they sit in. Maybe they're scared. I'll have to make sure I don't check off the evil energy box when I ship another batch of manuscripts through Gallowmere Express.
I'm still squeezing in time to work on [The Noxious Novella]. I can tell that I've gotten serious about it, because I'm over-thinking it. I've got, I'd say, a quarter of the first draft written, but I keep stopping myself and wondering which direction to take it in. I have an outline, but I've changed it up dozens of times. It's not necessarily events of the story that I change, though some have been removed, added, replaced, and altered. It's more about the actual storytelling. I'm trying to figure out different techniques and devices to use for certain parts for the sake of cohesion. The book could almost work as a collection of short stories, it's very episodic. The only initial connection has been that they all have the same protagonist. Other characters from his life recur in a lot of the segments. Events from certain scenes are sometimes alluded to in other parts, and of course there's a bit of foreshadowing. There are other techniques I'm experimenting with which are a bit less tried and true and am trying to see how they would work. Some I have to wonder if it's too obvious if handled one way and too subtle if done another way. Other techniques I'm not quite sure how to pull off yet.
Finally, quarter way through, I'm still not sure if I should narrate it in third or first person. I'm giving myself until the very end of this year to finish this thing and send it off. We'll see if I actually adhere to my self imposed deadline...
See Everyone in hell!
