A Live Report from the Front Lines
(or, A Geek Unleashed)
Just put down my pencil from some sketching. Been working out some giant robot transformations, but doing it Chicken Empire-style. I'm back working on this thing again. It's been easy to think about these characters lately. I suspect I'm acting out an escapist power-fantasy puppet show, using manques of my past acquaintences as stand-ins for the mythical archetypes which shape all of our cognitive development, so that future readers will feel an unexplainable yet powerful connection to my finished product and merge into a rabidly over-fascinated fanbase, whose addiction to continuity and pseudo-logic will, ironically, overshadow any humanistic, moral, or social overtones the aforementioned product may, in fact, contain.
Or that's how George Lucas feels. It's pretty much the same.
I can't tell you if this project will ever get done, or, if finished, it will be worth anyone's attention, but I can say that it's sure fun to be the only fan. Oh, I'm the happiest dork alive.
You want spoilers? Oh, I got spoilers. Trivia? IMDB ain't got DOODY of Ed's Dark Chicken Empire! But, I do. My Inner Fanboy mocks your lack of insider knowledge. But then, your connections could never be as good as mine. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!! I even know stuff that COULD HAVE happened!! HA!! You'll NEVER know about the ill-fated APRON PEOPLE, WILL YOU!?
Whoo. I feel better now.
In semi-seriousness, I've got *gasp* AN OUTLINE. With a beginning, a middle , and part of an end, even.
My Recipe for a Craetive Outline:
1) Come up with a silly idea. One with a ridiculous name, if you can.
2) Anything that comes to mind, write it down.
3) Do that for like 8 years.
4) Dig out your notes, and put the ones you can read into a sequence.
5) Rearrange sequence until it ceases to suck.
6) Keep anything that makes you, personally, laugh/cry/cringe/cackle.
More later!
DJB