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
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 My old beat up laptop with the broken power jack has been replaced by a slick new Toshiba.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.
I want to write the end of this podcast very properly. In retrospect, the first thirteen or so chapters spent a lot of time getting to know the characters. I actually like this, but it was not the purpose of the story. So I am writing again, just writing, with no pressure on myself to write it fast. The real-time delay should give way to action, events, and things happening.
It’s time the story showed the full effect of the characters’ actions so far.
I had plans for Trip to go through some things and perform some tasks crucial to the story. How and why he did them proved to be more interesting than all my best plans to that point. Committing the pieces of his story to a finished word was amazing. It was one of those “change things because this is so much better” moments.
I am happy for the time I spent dwelling on Thad and Celia’s marriage. It was very important for me to write about two people who actually respect each other. This is reflected in Trip and Sarah’s experience with each other.
Ah, and I am touching on the theme of the entire story.
I hope that you have enjoyed the shorter introduction. I certainly love hearing it more than the original, longer one.
The story is being finished. Everything is ocming along nicely. This will hopefully be faster paced and more fun from here on out.
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