Light Reading = Inspiration?
Adam, Randy, Tony... Those're the only male friends I can think of right now who would be interested in this sort of thing. I'm cross-posting this as well. Fairly certain I don't have to name anyone else, but I figured those three needed an attention grabber. Hey! Check this out!
common as the rain.com | eros
So I was bored the other night and in a mood. I decided to do a random google search to see if I could find any good yaoi type manga. (I hate that word: yaoi. It's so commercialized now.) What I really wanted was a comic strip type deal, but I have the damnedest time finding anything good. I figured since what I wanted was something to read, I could compromise for something to read without pictures, and did another search. I stumbled across that site, and so far I've been hooked. I've read almost all of the Millstreet story and intend on reading them all eventually. If those haven't been made into books, they should be.
In reading those stories and the other books I've been working on, I keep getting the overwhelming urge to write. But as I told Ellen last night, I just can't seem to wrap my head around it. The pictures are there, flitting around in my head, but I just can't seem to capture them. I don't know how to start the Gradia story. I keep looking at the five working chapters I have, and as I've said before, I just want to tear them to shreds. They're crap. They start as crap. And I don't know how to fix it all just now. I don't know how to start it all off as exciting as it should be.
Then I recall when I first started delving into D&D with Adam and Matt (remember that, Adam?). The very first campaign I ever ran was based on Gradia. The first villain the players faced was Xota. Most of my Gradia story revolves around the concepts of that campaign. Only, I've changed the protagonists significantly. Instead of a human and an elf saving the day, it'll be someone else entirely. There remain certain characters Matt and Adam may remember even, but I've had to twist things around a bit in order to keep everything consistent and less D&Dish.
How did that campaign begin? Maybe I should toss that element into this story. Maybe the main character should be the stranger in a strange land as the PCs were in the campaign world. Or at the very least, I need to somehow think of a way to incorporate that concept into the main character I have in mind and make him as interesting as those characters were. Therein lies the trouble.
I still don't know how to create a captivating beginning. And it's really time I start working on the writing, less on the brainstorming. January's almost over...
common as the rain.com | eros
So I was bored the other night and in a mood. I decided to do a random google search to see if I could find any good yaoi type manga. (I hate that word: yaoi. It's so commercialized now.) What I really wanted was a comic strip type deal, but I have the damnedest time finding anything good. I figured since what I wanted was something to read, I could compromise for something to read without pictures, and did another search. I stumbled across that site, and so far I've been hooked. I've read almost all of the Millstreet story and intend on reading them all eventually. If those haven't been made into books, they should be.
In reading those stories and the other books I've been working on, I keep getting the overwhelming urge to write. But as I told Ellen last night, I just can't seem to wrap my head around it. The pictures are there, flitting around in my head, but I just can't seem to capture them. I don't know how to start the Gradia story. I keep looking at the five working chapters I have, and as I've said before, I just want to tear them to shreds. They're crap. They start as crap. And I don't know how to fix it all just now. I don't know how to start it all off as exciting as it should be.
Then I recall when I first started delving into D&D with Adam and Matt (remember that, Adam?). The very first campaign I ever ran was based on Gradia. The first villain the players faced was Xota. Most of my Gradia story revolves around the concepts of that campaign. Only, I've changed the protagonists significantly. Instead of a human and an elf saving the day, it'll be someone else entirely. There remain certain characters Matt and Adam may remember even, but I've had to twist things around a bit in order to keep everything consistent and less D&Dish.
How did that campaign begin? Maybe I should toss that element into this story. Maybe the main character should be the stranger in a strange land as the PCs were in the campaign world. Or at the very least, I need to somehow think of a way to incorporate that concept into the main character I have in mind and make him as interesting as those characters were. Therein lies the trouble.
I still don't know how to create a captivating beginning. And it's really time I start working on the writing, less on the brainstorming. January's almost over...