The first week of the first Living Palindrome twitter story has been posted. The Sins of Disapeni.
It occurs to me that once a story is finished, I could follow it up with a podcast no matter how high/low the quality is.
-Andrew
And my Notepad dropdown list of excuses to make:
I have been working on this story of Thad and Celia for over a year now.
I really like that I get to podcast this and read it aloud. I really like that I can give Thad an immature, childish voice. I like trying to present Celia as a woman who is trying to present herself as being on top of any situation.
Both of them are growing up.
Walther is someone who refused to do so.
Thad creates the things he wanted to create as a child. Celia is reaching her potential and embracing herself as well. This probably says a lot about my idea of growing up: it’s more about letting go of your fear than your dreams, and mostly about balancing your dreams with the world around them.
Anyway, I am writing again. I will have all 20 chapters finished before going near a microphone again. Then I may buy gallon jugs of water and lock myself in the studio to record them.
After this, one of two projects will likely come next. I want to begin with an iconic character, but I also see a brand new setting to be started on as well. I have boundless love for world-building.
There was also that Twitter story, which I really think could be a lot of fun.
I would also love to write a second book — novella? — of sorts around the events being set up in this story. Walther, Melissa, and the events on Aysyl can provide a great backdrop - not to mention the portals themselves.
This story needs resolution first. Then I will decide where to go next.
Also, I hated to destroy such a beautiful and complimentary piece of comment spam tonight. It was a nice change from the brute-force spam that usually comes along and it almost even had me convinced. However, it was not meant to be.
Okay. Sometimes real life just hammers you. You pick your head up and keep going.
I’m 32 now. My old beat up laptop with the broken power jack has been replaced by a slick new Toshiba. The new Toshiba also has about four times the battery life of the old one. And the power jack works.
Chapter 14 is done. Chapter 15 is being finished. Notes for the last four chapters after that are nearly complete. Everything from here on is fleshing the third act out.
In my time spenting writing for fun and professionally, my projects have always had a serial quality to them: Experience one part, then another, then another. This can be one song at a time in a large concept album, or one chapter of a podcast. I love writing this way.
I love comic books for much the same reason. Or sometimes I do. Yet it seems there is some confusion over the Definitive Authors of any particular title. Allow me to help.
Everyone who has written since then has been given the power to add to the mythos, but the stories written can never be taken away.
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