Day 4 was yesterday!!! But I fell asleep! While writing the post! Argh! But excuses aside, I spent the day coming up with some more background for the story (also playing mini golf!) and I think it's starting to take shape, in my mind at least.
I also started writing a bit of an intro piece of sorts that may or may not actually get included. It introduces one of the more minor characters and members of my smuggling ring. He's a pretty cool guy though and now that I have finished writing it, I can even post a link to it here. Enjoy!
http://storywrite.com/story/379106
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Day 3
Day 3 has come and gone and I'm still posting at ungodly times. Really, I should start posting earlier and getting some sleep. I've recently taken to falling asleep in the middle of the day in various places throughout the house, and really think I should stop.
Soooooo, not much progress today. Just a bit of info on the main character that I will share with you riiiiiiiight.... now.
This guy's a former Earthside smuggler, with a bit of experience in interplanetary running. He's a fairly harsh man, unwilling to let things come between him and his missions, but lenient with younger members of the team, and actually pretty honorable. Goes around dressed in layers of scrappy military clothes, is permanently poorly shaven, and generally looks like a soldier hobo. His second in command has been with him since the early days of planetary smuggling. This guy's a lot more of a .... chill dude. Always willing to listen to the complaints and remarks of the others in the crew, and patient when explaining the intricacies of a job. Sometimes acts as the lead's conscience.
What I need is NAMES!!! Why are they so hard to come up with?
Soooooo, not much progress today. Just a bit of info on the main character that I will share with you riiiiiiiight.... now.
This guy's a former Earthside smuggler, with a bit of experience in interplanetary running. He's a fairly harsh man, unwilling to let things come between him and his missions, but lenient with younger members of the team, and actually pretty honorable. Goes around dressed in layers of scrappy military clothes, is permanently poorly shaven, and generally looks like a soldier hobo. His second in command has been with him since the early days of planetary smuggling. This guy's a lot more of a .... chill dude. Always willing to listen to the complaints and remarks of the others in the crew, and patient when explaining the intricacies of a job. Sometimes acts as the lead's conscience.
What I need is NAMES!!! Why are they so hard to come up with?
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Day 2
Well! I am definitely getting into the habit of posting at early morning times. It's starting to just feel RIGHT. I'm not certain I could post any earlier now!
Anyway, today I tackled some setting, plot weaving. Obviously it's all still rather vague, but I think I have the gist of it at the moment. No point in linking something so liable to change very soon, so I'll just outline my basic plan.
So the time is going to be sometime a few hundred years in the future. A random year like 2298 or maybe 2365. Doesn't really matter. So space exploration is at the point where people are colonizing different planets pretty vigorously. However, the caveat is that actual spacefaring missions are all commercialized, BUT the governments (which I'm going to keep fairly similar to modern day ones) control all launches. Any unauthorized launch zones are closed down, usually by force.
But now that there are multiple Earth colonies, and smuggling is becoming a lucrative, but extremely dangerous business. Thus, the top group of smugglers decide to set up their own launch (I haven't yet decided how: through a hijacking of a commercial mission, or by setting up a pad somewhere remote, like Antarctica, and trying to launch off the radar -- which would be a more difficult and less exciting choice).
I'll start by describing the group, probably through an introduction in the form of a smuggling run. Then the rest of the first half will cover the whole operation of getting a personal launch. They will use it to set up a base on a colony, and run their jobs from that spot. The second half will discuss sudden difficulties with finding jobs, and the complications that arise during the first one they receive.
If it seems like I'm being vague, you're very perceptive! The reason for this vagueness is simple: I don't want to set my mind too much on anything just quite yet. I just want to have a basic idea of where I'm going before tomorrow's task.
"What's tomorrow's task?" you know oblige me by asking. It's a secret! Nah, just kidding. I'm going to start on character sketches! These will be in the forms of flash fics and I hope to do two a day. I also want to set up as much of the future novel storyline and setting as possible, but maybe I'll just create random snapshots of critical moments in their lives.
Stay tuned!!
Anyway, today I tackled some setting, plot weaving. Obviously it's all still rather vague, but I think I have the gist of it at the moment. No point in linking something so liable to change very soon, so I'll just outline my basic plan.
So the time is going to be sometime a few hundred years in the future. A random year like 2298 or maybe 2365. Doesn't really matter. So space exploration is at the point where people are colonizing different planets pretty vigorously. However, the caveat is that actual spacefaring missions are all commercialized, BUT the governments (which I'm going to keep fairly similar to modern day ones) control all launches. Any unauthorized launch zones are closed down, usually by force.
But now that there are multiple Earth colonies, and smuggling is becoming a lucrative, but extremely dangerous business. Thus, the top group of smugglers decide to set up their own launch (I haven't yet decided how: through a hijacking of a commercial mission, or by setting up a pad somewhere remote, like Antarctica, and trying to launch off the radar -- which would be a more difficult and less exciting choice).
I'll start by describing the group, probably through an introduction in the form of a smuggling run. Then the rest of the first half will cover the whole operation of getting a personal launch. They will use it to set up a base on a colony, and run their jobs from that spot. The second half will discuss sudden difficulties with finding jobs, and the complications that arise during the first one they receive.
If it seems like I'm being vague, you're very perceptive! The reason for this vagueness is simple: I don't want to set my mind too much on anything just quite yet. I just want to have a basic idea of where I'm going before tomorrow's task.
"What's tomorrow's task?" you know oblige me by asking. It's a secret! Nah, just kidding. I'm going to start on character sketches! These will be in the forms of flash fics and I hope to do two a day. I also want to set up as much of the future novel storyline and setting as possible, but maybe I'll just create random snapshots of critical moments in their lives.
Stay tuned!!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Day 1
A-Ha! It's over! The first day of my exciting writing endeavor. Well, exciting for me in any case.
What did I get done today, you may ask. Well, kind reader, the answer to that question is: very little.
I have decided upon the genre: science fiction. It's something I feel familiar with, thanks to reading plenty of it and even writing the occasional short story. My love for the Hitchhiker's Guide, as well as everything by Terry Pratchett also mean that it'll include a fair bit of humor, though after some thought, I decided that I want a primarily serious novel.
I also toyed with the idea of writing a sort of space mystery because admit it, you haven't read very many of those. Nevertheless, I threw the idea out as "likely to seem gimmicky unless I pull it off very well," and the fact that I'm not too great at thinking up mysteries solidified that decision.
While I was enjoying the snowy mountains this morning, I decided that I definitely want at least part of the book set on Earth, but much of the plot and action will revolve about traveling into space. Perhaps I will take a tech heavy approach, but once again, my lack of experience could make this approach disastrous.
So what do I have so far? An idea: a space travel oriented sci-fi novel, set both on Earth and in space, and full of action and a good amount of humor. Sounds like a plan. Let's really get to work on it tomorrow!
What did I get done today, you may ask. Well, kind reader, the answer to that question is: very little.
I have decided upon the genre: science fiction. It's something I feel familiar with, thanks to reading plenty of it and even writing the occasional short story. My love for the Hitchhiker's Guide, as well as everything by Terry Pratchett also mean that it'll include a fair bit of humor, though after some thought, I decided that I want a primarily serious novel.
I also toyed with the idea of writing a sort of space mystery because admit it, you haven't read very many of those. Nevertheless, I threw the idea out as "likely to seem gimmicky unless I pull it off very well," and the fact that I'm not too great at thinking up mysteries solidified that decision.
While I was enjoying the snowy mountains this morning, I decided that I definitely want at least part of the book set on Earth, but much of the plot and action will revolve about traveling into space. Perhaps I will take a tech heavy approach, but once again, my lack of experience could make this approach disastrous.
So what do I have so far? An idea: a space travel oriented sci-fi novel, set both on Earth and in space, and full of action and a good amount of humor. Sounds like a plan. Let's really get to work on it tomorrow!
Day 0
Well in all honesty it's already what I intended to be Day 1, but night turned to morning, and here I am! No worries though, since I'm sure this first post will be read by nobody but me, and I sure can forgive myself for being late. And I'm still going to do my Day 1 post. There's enough room on a Sunday to hold two blog posts, isn't there?
So anyway, for anyone who may read this in the future, digging it out of my archive or stumbling across it during an idle waltz through the Internet, what I'm going to be doing here is simple: following my work on the novel I intend to write. What's going to make this fun? Well, I have very few pre-conceived notions about what I'm going to write, I've never written a (cohesive) fictional work longer than four pages, and I have no formal training in novel writing.
I'm going to keep track of everything here: from planning the basic concept, to creating lush settings, to nurturing healthy characters. I hope someone will find it fun to follow along with the raw unfolding of the creative process. In any case I'll be able to keep this as a log for the future!
Also, I will post every day. Just to keep myself writing SOMEWHERE.
In closing, I'll just ask (since I planned on it all along) "To write or not to write?" The answer to that, as you may have guessed, is "To write! No question!"
So anyway, for anyone who may read this in the future, digging it out of my archive or stumbling across it during an idle waltz through the Internet, what I'm going to be doing here is simple: following my work on the novel I intend to write. What's going to make this fun? Well, I have very few pre-conceived notions about what I'm going to write, I've never written a (cohesive) fictional work longer than four pages, and I have no formal training in novel writing.
I'm going to keep track of everything here: from planning the basic concept, to creating lush settings, to nurturing healthy characters. I hope someone will find it fun to follow along with the raw unfolding of the creative process. In any case I'll be able to keep this as a log for the future!
Also, I will post every day. Just to keep myself writing SOMEWHERE.
In closing, I'll just ask (since I planned on it all along) "To write or not to write?" The answer to that, as you may have guessed, is "To write! No question!"
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