I guess normally I would just be telling you some fantastical made up story about how I organised a surprise birthday party for Morrissey and then bailed at the last minute in order to show my dissatisfaction at his inflammatory missives, little realising at the time how that was not really going to have any effect on his behaviour.
Instead I’ll be talking book, book, book for some time until a squirrel or other low hanging rodent distracts me. So apologies if you prefer the bullshit.
Creating a living, breathing world is exceptionally hard – especially when you’ve nailed in a load of parameters already. I somehow need to design an entire realm that has existed for thousands of years and has its own assortment of denizens and accomplishments; each of which need to be justifiable. I had a minor panic attack about the very scope of it earlier this week and had to stop and breathe loudly for a bit.
I’m blaming it partially on my own ridiculous idea to punt draft number 1 as part of NaNoWriMo this November. I should probably postpone till next November. Or maybe the one afterwards.
There has always been part of my brain that goes “Well, you’ve got a few of the ideas together so why not just try writing”. I guess that would make sense for a lot of people and that’s exactly how I got myself in trouble with Mythomania. I need to do a heck of a lot more research and I’m not sure I should embark on such a thing when there is only a month to go.
Or maybe I should just really go for it again? Just to see what transpires? I mean, it will just be a first draft so I’ll end up pretty much completely scrapping it and starting again anyway.
I think this blog is actually just two sides of myself arguing for the benefit of nobody. So I’ll try again.
I will go ahead with the NaNoWriMo plan and just see what comes out of it. I have roughly one month to set things up in terms of plot and characters and although that’s nowhere near enough time for something of this scale I think it will be a good exercise. At the end of it I’ll put the manuscripts away for 6 months and check them again when the rest of the research and planning is pretty much accomplished and rewrite it accordingly.
That’s the Stephen King approach and the one that suits me best. The difference I have here on Mythomania is that already I have a much more breathable world (albeit mainly Nitrogen) and hopefully things will flow from there. Will just keep on trucking for now and let you know if anything interesting crops up along the way.