--time out, musings.--
After the bomb I dropped in the story yesterday, I think that I'm going to let the story germinate over the weekend on account of anything I say now would probably just ruin it. Hopefully if I let it sit for a little while I'll come up with something brilliant to do next.
Writing in this sort of format is almost like writing a tv show. I have to pay attention to things like continuity as they come up, rather than just tying everything together once I've got all my elements laid out. When I'm writing a novel or a short story, if I discover something then that doesn't make sense I can write my way around it. Short of going back and editing old posts (which I am not willing to do, despite a couple of historical errors made) this lj is sort of just a growing finished product. This has its good and bad sides, but I've found I have to use a lot more ingenuity to escape the corners I've painted myself into.
This, generally speaking, is a Good Thing, because I am a fanciful writer and I tend to just say whatever the hell I want, whenever I want to. In my currently hibernating novel, I have written countless scenes that upon editing will have to be thrown away because either they don't add anything to the story (usually the case) or they add contrary information to the story.
This brings me to a few notes about the "MS" that is this lj-beast that I seem to have gotten myself into.
1.) The "story" in which we are currently involved officially starts with this post. There are other blurbs before that from the same character's point of view, but we are starting from the "beginning" and this is it. Anything after that can be assumed to follow the same linear timeline unless otherwise noted.
2.)Roy G. Biv's musing on cryptology, found here, is a part of the bigger story but should not be considered a part of the same narrative. That was, for lack of a better explanation, me taking a break.
3.) In this post Isaac Newton is referred to as "Sir Isaac" and that is an error on my part. The year when this scene takes place is 1699 and Isaac Newton was not knighted until 1705. Oops. Later references to him should not make this mistake.
4.) The Esoteric Brotherhood of Alchemists that I write about is wholly fictional, but it is based loosely upon several different orders of that time. Newton, however, is known to have practiced alchemy and was accused of Rosicrucianism (as were many in the Royal Society).
5.) I'm trying to address my more glaring historical errors but obviously there are anachronisms everywhere, not the least of which being that Avialle is definitely not a period name. This is mainly because I named the character in a flight of phant'sy and then, well, that was her name and I couldn't change it.
Writing in this sort of format is almost like writing a tv show. I have to pay attention to things like continuity as they come up, rather than just tying everything together once I've got all my elements laid out. When I'm writing a novel or a short story, if I discover something then that doesn't make sense I can write my way around it. Short of going back and editing old posts (which I am not willing to do, despite a couple of historical errors made) this lj is sort of just a growing finished product. This has its good and bad sides, but I've found I have to use a lot more ingenuity to escape the corners I've painted myself into.
This, generally speaking, is a Good Thing, because I am a fanciful writer and I tend to just say whatever the hell I want, whenever I want to. In my currently hibernating novel, I have written countless scenes that upon editing will have to be thrown away because either they don't add anything to the story (usually the case) or they add contrary information to the story.
This brings me to a few notes about the "MS" that is this lj-beast that I seem to have gotten myself into.
1.) The "story" in which we are currently involved officially starts with this post. There are other blurbs before that from the same character's point of view, but we are starting from the "beginning" and this is it. Anything after that can be assumed to follow the same linear timeline unless otherwise noted.
2.)Roy G. Biv's musing on cryptology, found here, is a part of the bigger story but should not be considered a part of the same narrative. That was, for lack of a better explanation, me taking a break.
3.) In this post Isaac Newton is referred to as "Sir Isaac" and that is an error on my part. The year when this scene takes place is 1699 and Isaac Newton was not knighted until 1705. Oops. Later references to him should not make this mistake.
4.) The Esoteric Brotherhood of Alchemists that I write about is wholly fictional, but it is based loosely upon several different orders of that time. Newton, however, is known to have practiced alchemy and was accused of Rosicrucianism (as were many in the Royal Society).
5.) I'm trying to address my more glaring historical errors but obviously there are anachronisms everywhere, not the least of which being that Avialle is definitely not a period name. This is mainly because I named the character in a flight of phant'sy and then, well, that was her name and I couldn't change it.