Aridi Writes

Okay, well…that second one didn’t work out so well. Primarily because I designed a gorgeous, deep, interesting fantasy world that 1) Is too big for NaNo and 2) Is too big even for the “guy visits from real world” plot. So that goes into the idea pile.

This third idea is a simple contemporary lit-fic piece called All Change. I haven’t written an official blurb for it yet…but it’s about a young man that is about to throw himself in front of a train when a mystery girl stops him. They talk, and she leaves without ever telling him her name or giving him her number. It is about how his life changes – how he makes it change, and decides to turn everything around.

Another graphic.

It seems I was a little, ah, premature with my NaNo plot.

See, it’s an excellent idea. The setting is good, the history is good, hell, even the themes are good…but I totally lost the love for the characters that would have come from it. I wouldn’t really want to write them. I found it difficult enough to even think about them.

So I decided to try something…else.

As a boy, Alexander Tierson has an imaginary friend. While he is awake, Ciara is only around a little in the real world. When he sleeps, he visits her in the Elserealm – her own world – and has the most fantastic dreams…until his younger sister is killed in a tragic accident when he is 13. Then Lex stops having pleasant dreams, and Ciara seems to desert him. Over a decade passes in which he falls into a menial office job, meets his tiresome but unthreatening girlfriend, and makes a group of friends that he doesn’t need to be close to. His life couldn’t be more banal – and thus, he is taken totally unaware when he is visited by Ciara again. She has changed, grown, and become a warrior. Ciara needs the man’s help. The Elserealm – which to Lex seems to be just a dream but to Ciara is very, very real – is under threat, and she wants his help in saving it.

Yes, another ickle graphic. This one is for the document itself as a chapter break:

My NaNo project now has a name. It now has an idea too. Here’s the blurby bit I posted on my NaNo account (which is SteelAngelJohn same as every year)…

Forged from the genes of an angel and used as a weapon against humanity, the Nephilim suffer the ultimate betrayal and are scattered across the colonies, forced into hiding. Half-human , half-immortal and bred for battle, they face the greatest challenge of their lives – to find purpose in a galaxy turned against them, and live long enough to carry it out.

I even made a little banner for it, look. Ahh.

Yes. What a rubbish title…

Anyway. Life right now is somewhat up and down. In fact it’s more up and down than the konami code. (If you don’t know, google is your friend.) I haven’t been doing a lot of writing; I haven’t had the time and I’ve been trying to narrow down a list of agents for Minute Silence, which has been going slowly due to my butterfly-like attention span.

The personal stuff is…still very personal. I’m not going into that just yet. There will be a time soon, maybe.

Writing-wise, I eagerly await NaNoWriMo 2008. I have ideas. I’m also gonna write it all on Google Docs, which is a pretty nifty service. It’ll help out when I am at work.

Watch this space.

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