Well, I've come to terms with the fact that I don't think I'll ever really be happy with how the fight scenes are going in the untitled project (that's a link there, that is). So I'm putting the fighting stuff aside for a bit. I'm actually kind of happy with the whole "turned what was supposed to be a prolog into it's own actual story" thing - hopefully it's make the characters' growth more noticeable, and make the closing battle at the end of the first part all the more startling.
Part of what's supposed to make the battle so massive (both in scope and in meaning) is seeing the characters out of the armor. So, great ready for the quiet bits (which I'm ok with in stories, and total crap with in life). I'm also kinda (read: blatantly) bring in the character of Jason Black from TPoR, and the events of "Skipping Rocks on the Lethe" - Jason doesn't really appear as a character until Part 2 (the story wraps up there - this isn't a trilogy), but I like the idea of including a lot of the background information on the characters through him.
One thing that's odd, thinking about Jason v. Garrett - Jason was written during a rough period of my life. A lot of shit had gone wrong, more was going wrong all the time. And currently I'm at the tail end (I hope) of a period that seem like that mental deconstruction's wikipedia entry: you get the idea of it, but not the full experience, if you take my meaning. Jason was a semi-idealized version of me - Garrett isn't nearly as Mary-Sue in that regard. He has a character arc, he changes and grows. The whole first part is his descent, the second part his ascent (kinda). At least that's how it plays out in my head.
But since a lot of the story (as planned) is about coming to terms with the past and with yourself, maybe it's good to have ol' whiny ass Jason back, if only to face those parts of me that keep screwing up my current existence. On the Podcast Noah and I used to talk about how art (usually music) was meant to have an effect on you, but I've always figured it should have an effect on the creator as well. We're supposed to grow and change, everyone, but we do it in different ways. Hopefully this is mine - and but constantly producing something (if only for the length of this work), I can end up being a better me for it.
Ok, enough of this pompous malarkey. I'm for a shower and then working more on entry four.
Later, people of earth,
S.
One thing that's odd, thinking about Jason v. Garrett - Jason was written during a rough period of my life. A lot of shit had gone wrong, more was going wrong all the time. And currently I'm at the tail end (I hope) of a period that seem like that mental deconstruction's wikipedia entry: you get the idea of it, but not the full experience, if you take my meaning. Jason was a semi-idealized version of me - Garrett isn't nearly as Mary-Sue in that regard. He has a character arc, he changes and grows. The whole first part is his descent, the second part his ascent (kinda). At least that's how it plays out in my head.
But since a lot of the story (as planned) is about coming to terms with the past and with yourself, maybe it's good to have ol' whiny ass Jason back, if only to face those parts of me that keep screwing up my current existence. On the Podcast Noah and I used to talk about how art (usually music) was meant to have an effect on you, but I've always figured it should have an effect on the creator as well. We're supposed to grow and change, everyone, but we do it in different ways. Hopefully this is mine - and but constantly producing something (if only for the length of this work), I can end up being a better me for it.
Ok, enough of this pompous malarkey. I'm for a shower and then working more on entry four.
Later, people of earth,
S.
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