Well, I’m almost finished my Odyssey essay. That has been loads of enjoyment. 😛
I need to start writing again soon. So much of my life is changing right now that I need to ground it again in something concrete like the stories. At least I know where they are going. I just need to find some time to write them. Of course, I have to be in the right frame of mind as well. The rain yesterday helped me get some new pieces together for Concrete Leaves, what I’m calling the stories of Ever-deep and Spider now. I’m sure I’ll end up giving their real names soon. One will be of Romani(Gypsies and a couple other mixed decent, possibly Egyptian or Norse. She needs a very diverse background in order to find balance in what happens to her. Of course, the very point of the story is love and it’s growth will bring balance anyway…. But all that will happen to Spider will keep things going. I mean, Deep will be there for her for the start and end but in between I have to introduce that mysterious character. lol I still don’t know where to take him exactly…. I don’t want to make him too serious but also I want his words to be taken for truth…. I always want to begin my stories in the fall for some reason…. the Frozen Truth one(where I got my name) began with the main character returning home in the fall…. But this one has to start in late spring in order for Deep’s absence to work….. Spider will have to deal with her estrangement again, I suppose, but at least it isn’t permanent and malicious as her mother did….. that’s all replaced by the ghost-thing though.
I also need to decide what sort of car Deep would own…. and where the lake and campground will be… I mean, I won’t use the real place names even though that would strengthen the imagery. I may have to be vague on place and street names but it will work out…. And I’m not sure what familiar items I will include in the telling. I’d like to tell of what they listen to at Deep’s home but I’m not sure yet… And then there will be the fashion. lol Deep will likely end up a mix of all kinds of styles. Good ones though. Spider will remain with her black wardrobe. The one half chapter I did write established that and it seems to fit. I don’t know about the purple hair with pink highlights anymore though…. seems too bright for the mood I want to use…. pink is just too happy.
Their bookstore jobs will stay. That allows me throw in some characters who will just go in there and influence them by the books they buy or conversation….
The book still feels like somewhere between Charles de Lint and Terry Moore though…. maybe with some of Terry Brooks’ word/void series thrown in…. Good company if I can pull it off anyway.
I do somewhat regret that they will not be in school after the first part. I think this environment would really show a lot of their character. Well, depending on how long I continue to write about them they will eventually make their way back to that point. The first story ends in the fall…. but another year might be the second one. If there is a second. I might focus on other characters for that.
The threads in all my stories seem so appropriate now. Each relationship, each love is a thread…. and even with that, as in Spider’s mother’s treatment of her, the threads can act as much as a noose as a web to catch. How do I justify the moths in the FT story…. there’s no love with them yet still there are threads…. do they represent a false relationship, a lack of love, much like Spider and her mother? I’ll have to think that over.
As simple as the story is on a plot basis, it is still too complex to look at just one way.
It’s just one strand of the web, right?
I’m sure no one cares about any of this so I’ll stop writing now.
I need to start writing again soon. So much of my life is changing right now that I need to ground it again in something concrete like the stories. At least I know where they are going. I just need to find some time to write them. Of course, I have to be in the right frame of mind as well. The rain yesterday helped me get some new pieces together for Concrete Leaves, what I’m calling the stories of Ever-deep and Spider now. I’m sure I’ll end up giving their real names soon. One will be of Romani(Gypsies and a couple other mixed decent, possibly Egyptian or Norse. She needs a very diverse background in order to find balance in what happens to her. Of course, the very point of the story is love and it’s growth will bring balance anyway…. But all that will happen to Spider will keep things going. I mean, Deep will be there for her for the start and end but in between I have to introduce that mysterious character. lol I still don’t know where to take him exactly…. I don’t want to make him too serious but also I want his words to be taken for truth…. I always want to begin my stories in the fall for some reason…. the Frozen Truth one(where I got my name) began with the main character returning home in the fall…. But this one has to start in late spring in order for Deep’s absence to work….. Spider will have to deal with her estrangement again, I suppose, but at least it isn’t permanent and malicious as her mother did….. that’s all replaced by the ghost-thing though.
I also need to decide what sort of car Deep would own…. and where the lake and campground will be… I mean, I won’t use the real place names even though that would strengthen the imagery. I may have to be vague on place and street names but it will work out…. And I’m not sure what familiar items I will include in the telling. I’d like to tell of what they listen to at Deep’s home but I’m not sure yet… And then there will be the fashion. lol Deep will likely end up a mix of all kinds of styles. Good ones though. Spider will remain with her black wardrobe. The one half chapter I did write established that and it seems to fit. I don’t know about the purple hair with pink highlights anymore though…. seems too bright for the mood I want to use…. pink is just too happy.
Their bookstore jobs will stay. That allows me throw in some characters who will just go in there and influence them by the books they buy or conversation….
The book still feels like somewhere between Charles de Lint and Terry Moore though…. maybe with some of Terry Brooks’ word/void series thrown in…. Good company if I can pull it off anyway.
I do somewhat regret that they will not be in school after the first part. I think this environment would really show a lot of their character. Well, depending on how long I continue to write about them they will eventually make their way back to that point. The first story ends in the fall…. but another year might be the second one. If there is a second. I might focus on other characters for that.
The threads in all my stories seem so appropriate now. Each relationship, each love is a thread…. and even with that, as in Spider’s mother’s treatment of her, the threads can act as much as a noose as a web to catch. How do I justify the moths in the FT story…. there’s no love with them yet still there are threads…. do they represent a false relationship, a lack of love, much like Spider and her mother? I’ll have to think that over.
As simple as the story is on a plot basis, it is still too complex to look at just one way.
It’s just one strand of the web, right?
I’m sure no one cares about any of this so I’ll stop writing now.
2 comments on “Words”
You’d be surprised. XD Besides, I’m sure no one wants to ehar my blather about Crystara, but I do it anyway. (Mainly more for my benefit. Its the only way I can do notes without losing them!)
Sounds like an interesting story. *meanders off*
The Odyssey…
::shudder::
Tonight I have to rewrite an essay I wrote on that.
I’m quite dreading it.