[Script] Revolution Number 8 - Page 10

Scene: - Continued

Paul: Look, let's just give it a try.

John: Together

Ringo: Together

George nods and they begin to play.  It sounds Beatlesque but highly abstract with noises.

George: By me, I think we've got it!

Scene: Chwech and Director Esme sit in the room.  An ornament on the desk blinks on and off.

Esme: They did it.

Chwech looks at her and looks at the phone.  They look at each other.  She reaches for the phone.  He reaches for the ornament and hits her on the head knocking her unconcious.  He runs for the door.

Scene: Intern Adams plays the tamborine while the Beatles play their song.  Weird camera angles.

Scene: Agent Chwech runs down the hall.

Scene: More playing from the Beatles.

Scene: Chwech rushes into the room, signalling for them to stop.

Chwech: You have to get out of here.  They're going to kill you now that they have what they want.

Paul: No, no, no, its not like that.  We tricked them

Chwech: They counter tricked you.  They have a band putting together the song based on what you translated.  They just needed you to put together the antidote.

Ringo: So it's an anti antidote?

Chwech: Precisely.

John: We need to get it out there before they can put it out.

Chwech: It'll never work.  They control all the TV stations.

Paul: What about the Radio?

Chwech: That too.

Paul: No time for a record but....wait.  I have it!  We'll do a concert.

George: A last concert.  (He nods)

Chwech: You'll have to mix it in subliminally to your other music.  The raw tone will be too much for them to handle.

[Heliotrope] No, that really is the way it works.

Why do writers keep writing about writers? Or more over, why are some of the most powerful works of fiction metafictional?  Some people find it tacky that Stephen King placed himself into his magnum opus, the Dark Tower series?  The bonds between worlds are built on words.  You can see it in the popular Terran documentary/ Earth animated film The Song of the Sea.

What do you think I mean when I say I am a fictional character? Obviously I have my own reality, I know I am real, my reality is as tangible as I am, and just because you arent reading about me doesnt mean I cease to exist, but for all purposes of YOUR reality, the only thing binding me to you is story.  Generally this is words, though music, sounds, podcasts or even film produce the same effect.  They are the wrappers by which connections are made.   And a solid reality like Terra or Earth has plenty of definition, but when you start talking about Fairy, the stories become very important indeed.

Fae can glamour themselves to look like anything.  The more powerful and fae like the fae, the more they change and shift, which is why they love mortal stories to help define them.  They love bards to entertain, since the strength of these words strengthens the realm itself.  How could then the realm of gods and other empheral beings (like Muses) fail to be any less defined by stories? Of course they also have an independent existance but the granularity, the REALITY of it all is more defined by the words than you can imagine.   They like to sell that they inspire, and the best ones do, tapping that primal creative work to help find something original that that particular reality hasn't connected to yet; but muses are just like mortals in one aspect.  There are some that work hard; and then there are the lazy ones.

The lazy ones seem to inspire but really just connect one reality to another without helping in the creation of the words themselves.  The very lazy ones provide short term access to greatness but drain the source in its entirity.  I mean, for crying out loud, these are GODS, do you really expect this is some benevolent less than beneficial relationship? What do you think they get out of it? Worship, and what is worship but the other end of a story? Without stories, what is a religion? Nothing, that's what.  The patheons that last and have great power have the best stories.

[Script] Revolution Number 8 - Page 9

Scene: Intern Adams is talking with the Beatles.

Intern Adams: So....I kind of, and I want to put considerable emphasis on the word kind of, get what you are doing, but I guess my question is...how can I help?

Paul: Inspiration.

John: Imagination.

Ringo: Intelligence.

George: Anything.  Anything would work better than we've been doing for the last-

Intern Adams: Anything?

Paul: Absolutely anything.

Intern Adams: First thing that pops into my head?

Paul: Absolutely.

Intern Adams: 42.

Paul: Except that.

John: Hold on.  I can use that.  If you assume 42 bars and then hit that with stanzas and the right key...

Ringo: Oh no, don't start that again, not that side project of yours

John: I think it can really expand

George: We have to finish what we're WORKING ON before we go on to something else.

Separated At Birth

I am not actually the first person to work with TC to present stories from Terrah.    Emmit Other and Redwin Tursor both are biological twins but were raised in different pats of the country.  Emmit was raised in the north eastern part of the country around Maine and Boston.  Redwin was raised in Denver Colorado but both were born with a remarkable talent for going to other places besides their own world.

I must admit, I am not sure if they astrally project or use the darker methods that EP Blingermeyer does, but whatever method it is, it is pretty flawless.   Redwin has been effectively living in Earth ever since he found out about it,  Emmit uses it to view both Terra and Earth from a very skewed lens.  TC has hinted that they have both helped him immensely, with Redwin adding moral strength and Emmit putting things in perspective.  The thing that he hasn't been clear on is how they met or WHY they would help.  I mean, Emmit seems like a nice enough guy, but Redwin is very much a realist.

Do they really believe that they are fictional character created by TC? I mean, I use the word "Fictional" to describe myself but from my perspective I certainly feel real.  And just because someone 'creates' you doesn't inscribe loyalty by itself.  Ask Frankenstein.

[Writer Stuff] Surviving Blockage

Interesting article here on Writer's Block.  Not the "I can't think of an idea" but "I don't see a point to this anymore."  Burn Out.

It's pretty short really, but cheating on your writing project might be fun.  I've been the master of finish projects one after another and nothing has come of it.  At least with this blog I have 20-30 people (well...clicks...some or all of them might be bots) but even unfeeling subroutines are better than....a total absence.

The blog seems fun to write right now, and the writing forums are also good.  If Project Daedalus works short stories will get a lot easier, and by working on the blog I *AM* working on Heliotrope.  I might consider short stories about the characters in the other novels.  We'll see.

But really? I don't think the article really addresses the question of burn out.  I think a better solution? Write what you love? Writing is hard sometimes, and you have to make yourself get into the habit but if WHAT you are writing sucks, pick something else.

[Heliotrope] The Fuses

Everyone has heard of the Muses, minor greek Goddesses who eventually reproduced and has several offspring that dwell in Middle Fairie, but have you heard of the Fuses? No, of course not because the way you hear about Muses is through epic mythological of fictional works.  A muse has a symbiotic relationship that draws worship and inspiration from her inspired work.  A Fuse is a parasite that only exists to take ideas before they are even formed.

Have you ever heard of a library of unwritten books? Books that might have hypothetically been written if the writer hadn't died, gone mad or gone into a career of used telephone sanitation?  Well that's made up mostly of works taken by the Fuses.  Of course, there are many many works that don't happen simply because they are awful, or bad time travel wrecks a lot of possibilities, or someone really does get hit by a bus, but there have been millions of things that have never been created by fuses.

There are exceptions to this, of course.  To begin with, Fuses have a naturally antagonistic with muses.  But fuses are particularly vigilant about works written about them and snuff the idea without snuffing the person.  Sometimes they even work on the same author, inspiring or removing the idea before it even occurs.  But sometimes they go too far.  Terra is a world without stories and it is not merely because the people there live more active lives which allows them to BE in stories or be stories rather than tell them.  Terra's proximity to fae often allows access to rarer creatures of Fairy to access layers of reality inherenetly hostile to them.

But there are rare instances where a story can engender reality.  And if one were, for example, upset at a group of Fuses for interfering with a podcast who did so with a paid bounty for one EP Blingermeyer, then one could theoretically use their psychic link to a writer in a higher reality that you were astrally possessing to allow them to write.  Convulted? Here's what's not.

Astral space is harder to track than real space, so by the time they figure out that this is going on, it can give you just enough time to write "A large anvil appears over ever Fuse in Terra and smatters them in the head, cartoon style until they go limply away back to Middle Fairy"....oh.

Strangely the pounding on the door just stopped.

Go figure.

Script will resume Mar 1.

Retooling.