Saturday, April 16, 2011

A Great Help

My dear brother has just helped me more than he will ever know. Isn't that wonderful? Brothers CAN be useful. Every once in a blue moon. XP (Just kidding to two of my favorite dudes!)

A while back, he asked me if I was interested in creating a personal wiki for The Book. At the time, I was wary of such technological-sounding things, and I said, "No," but a few weeks ago I began looking into it and realizing that, in fact, it might just be a good idea. Well, as of today, I have discovered that, not ONLY is it a good idea, it is an even better instrument! I have a TiddlyWiki, which I highly, HIGHLY recommend. It is extraordinarily user-friendly, and I have spent most of the day filling it up with every single NAMED character thus far in The Book. Needless to say, it is rather large -- but it's JUST the thing to help my brain become more organized about this! In my last post, I was bemoaning how sprawling and random what I've written thus far seems . . . This TiddlyWiki is going to help me get organized and get back on track! I am extremely excited. :)

Friday, April 15, 2011

The Unlucky Sprawl

I am finally realizing what it is I have gotten myself into here.

What it SHOULD be is a gorgeous, terrifying tangle of the mythical and the real, the archaic and the modern, the debased and the sublime.

What it IS, is a gangling, half-baked mess that has very little real meat to it -- only random in-depth explanations and descriptive passages. There's some clever dialogue, too, but as it lacks a foundation, it falls pretty flat.

My imagination has truly taken me MUCH further than the actual work I've accomplished -- but I am determined not to let it remain that way! It's just that the realization of having miles to go before I sleep -- and the realization of how MANY miles -- brings me a little low. I feel like a great deal of it is premature, but I will attempt to flesh it out and make something actually HAPPEN. I have this blog to whip up interest in something that doesn't quite exist yet -- but it's here to let you know it WILL. Keep your eyes out for the trilogy. Yes, the series has a name, but the individual books don't yet. But let me tell you: when it's done, and it's out there, it will have a blurb on the back using words like "betrayal" and "passion," and, if I'm really fortunate, maybe even "sweeping" or "epic."

"Mother! Do you realize what you just SAID?"
"Of course. I said 'if.'"
"Oh. IF."

-Walt Disney's Cinderella