One of the things that I need to decide when putting the book together is what Genre I'm going to make it. I've decided I'm going to write up to seven novels before I 'give up' and then self publish, and so far I've nearly finished my second. The first was sci fi and the second was near future Sci Fi. While there are a wide range of genres out there, I have to admit I've always wanted to write a fantasy, which is another reason for my wanting to use the "Tolkien" school of writing and preparation.
But "Fantasy" covers an incredibly wide range of sub genres. What kind of story am I looking to tell?
If you look at the Wikipedia article on the subject you find out that there are more genres about Fantasy than you would ever have imagined.
Personally, since I also recently watched an interesting Nova about the way sleep helps us determine the best way, to do things, I'm going to sleep on it.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Monday, December 31, 2007
The beginning (preview)
I already have a blog, the Codex Americana, that covers my political and philosophical rantings. However, I used to use Myspace for family matters until I decided I didn't want to support anything associated with Rupert Murdoch. Now that the Klingons have taken over Livejournal, I have been forced to move my creative content to another blog.
Namely this one.
The goal of this blog is to help me create, control, enhance and promote my creative fictional works (ie stories, novels, potentially scripts etc).
My current goal is to create my third novel. I have written two (well, all but the last chapter of the second). Hither to now, I have used the "Steven King" school of thought with writing a novel, basically, sitting down and writing it and seeing where it goes. That's worked OK, but I also feel that there is something lost in the novels. Even King in his book writes that you should create the entire novel in a short period of time so that the characters are more themselves within the timeframe of what you've created.
But I can't just sit down with no preparation, at least, I think I could, but I want to try something different. Thus, my third novel is going to follow the Tolkien line of reasoning, which is lots and lots of preparation, or 'preproduction' to use the movie analogy. Thus, my goal for 2008 is to spend the first 10 months building a world, plot, characters etc, and then write 100,000 words in the final two months, starting with National Novel Writing month in November, and carrying on into December.
I start tomorrow, and my goal is to post something in the creation of this novel once a day.
Namely this one.
The goal of this blog is to help me create, control, enhance and promote my creative fictional works (ie stories, novels, potentially scripts etc).
My current goal is to create my third novel. I have written two (well, all but the last chapter of the second). Hither to now, I have used the "Steven King" school of thought with writing a novel, basically, sitting down and writing it and seeing where it goes. That's worked OK, but I also feel that there is something lost in the novels. Even King in his book writes that you should create the entire novel in a short period of time so that the characters are more themselves within the timeframe of what you've created.
But I can't just sit down with no preparation, at least, I think I could, but I want to try something different. Thus, my third novel is going to follow the Tolkien line of reasoning, which is lots and lots of preparation, or 'preproduction' to use the movie analogy. Thus, my goal for 2008 is to spend the first 10 months building a world, plot, characters etc, and then write 100,000 words in the final two months, starting with National Novel Writing month in November, and carrying on into December.
I start tomorrow, and my goal is to post something in the creation of this novel once a day.
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