Wow I snap back fast
Okay guys, first of all, thanks to makoto for the support on my last post. that really cheered me up. And secondly, I had yesterday's depression made up for for the second time. Wanna know why? Because my theme on metafiction totally ties in with the most exciting news I've heard in a long, long time.
Homestuck is being made into a book! I'm not even going to address all the people who are raging about it, because I have every faith in Mr. Hussie to pull this off with every bit of style and finesse that he's displayed thus far. I know I talk mostly about comics and cartoons on this journal, but more than any other media, I love books. Books have been a constant in my life. Hearing that the best story I've read in a long time is being put into a form I can carry around with me and read whenever I want and will always be there for me is so amazing! I can't wait, you guys. I wish i could sleep until the release date. Fuck, it'll probably be a year or two, but who cares, it's not like my senior year in high school matters, anyways. And Homestuck, I sincerely believe, is worth it. It is a funny, mature, absolutely breathtaking story and I am seriously crying right now, I feel like a whole new world is going to be opened, oh man!
Ugh, sorry, i'll calm down. I just needed to get all that out of my system. Okay, here comes the real deal.
As much as I trust Mr. Hussie to write to the best of his abilities, I'm genuinely curious as to how he'll do it. Part of the oomph that Homestuck has is the animations and the music, and another big chunk is the video-game/comic format it has going on. Obviously, you can't put animations and music in books. But I know that even without electronic music and flashy animations, the story will be just as good. The style of narration, however, I'm more worried about. I mean, not worried, but... well, okay, worried. I have read my share of metafiction, and I know a thousand ways to spice up a point-of-view, from formatting to talking to the reader to talking to the characters. Metafiction, for those of you who don't know, is a term applied to fiction that is self-aware. I don't really know how to explain it, so I'll just link to the Wiki article on it.
For example, Homestuck is narrated in the first person. It adresses the main character that it is focusing on as 'you', along with the reader. Mr. Hussie makes appearances every once in a while. Characters address the narrator/you, the narrator addresses the characters, the narrator addresses you, it's all over the place, man.
But I've seen books use that style before. What I'm really concerned about is how the addressings will take form. Homestuck uses links and panels to achieve an almost RPG-game-esque style, creating an interactive story that gives the appearance of letting you control what happens. However, in books, you can't pull that off quite as well, and while it is possible (think those choose-your-path books for kids), it definitely isn't the kind of format a story like Homestuck could possibly adapt to. Well, actually, I wouldn't put it past the writing team. I definitely wouldn't put it that way, because I admittedly think it's cheesy, but you never know. And if it does happen like that, it would undoubtedly tie in all the seperate strands of story at the end.
I'm just waiting for them to actually rip a chunk of pages out of the book in order to imitate the Scratch. I'm sure there will be colored text all over the place, silly doodles on every other page, anything and everything you could possibly think to cram into a book.
The publishers are gonna be pissed. It's gonna be great!
Homestuck is being made into a book! I'm not even going to address all the people who are raging about it, because I have every faith in Mr. Hussie to pull this off with every bit of style and finesse that he's displayed thus far. I know I talk mostly about comics and cartoons on this journal, but more than any other media, I love books. Books have been a constant in my life. Hearing that the best story I've read in a long time is being put into a form I can carry around with me and read whenever I want and will always be there for me is so amazing! I can't wait, you guys. I wish i could sleep until the release date. Fuck, it'll probably be a year or two, but who cares, it's not like my senior year in high school matters, anyways. And Homestuck, I sincerely believe, is worth it. It is a funny, mature, absolutely breathtaking story and I am seriously crying right now, I feel like a whole new world is going to be opened, oh man!
Ugh, sorry, i'll calm down. I just needed to get all that out of my system. Okay, here comes the real deal.
As much as I trust Mr. Hussie to write to the best of his abilities, I'm genuinely curious as to how he'll do it. Part of the oomph that Homestuck has is the animations and the music, and another big chunk is the video-game/comic format it has going on. Obviously, you can't put animations and music in books. But I know that even without electronic music and flashy animations, the story will be just as good. The style of narration, however, I'm more worried about. I mean, not worried, but... well, okay, worried. I have read my share of metafiction, and I know a thousand ways to spice up a point-of-view, from formatting to talking to the reader to talking to the characters. Metafiction, for those of you who don't know, is a term applied to fiction that is self-aware. I don't really know how to explain it, so I'll just link to the Wiki article on it.
For example, Homestuck is narrated in the first person. It adresses the main character that it is focusing on as 'you', along with the reader. Mr. Hussie makes appearances every once in a while. Characters address the narrator/you, the narrator addresses the characters, the narrator addresses you, it's all over the place, man.
But I've seen books use that style before. What I'm really concerned about is how the addressings will take form. Homestuck uses links and panels to achieve an almost RPG-game-esque style, creating an interactive story that gives the appearance of letting you control what happens. However, in books, you can't pull that off quite as well, and while it is possible (think those choose-your-path books for kids), it definitely isn't the kind of format a story like Homestuck could possibly adapt to. Well, actually, I wouldn't put it past the writing team. I definitely wouldn't put it that way, because I admittedly think it's cheesy, but you never know. And if it does happen like that, it would undoubtedly tie in all the seperate strands of story at the end.
I'm just waiting for them to actually rip a chunk of pages out of the book in order to imitate the Scratch. I'm sure there will be colored text all over the place, silly doodles on every other page, anything and everything you could possibly think to cram into a book.
The publishers are gonna be pissed. It's gonna be great!