the ramble dump

So we know, sort of, how Agaffa is going to end.

And we've been brainstorming for the story that's going to come after that, involving a character who was invented when The Aberration was started, back at the end of 2003. A character who was actually going to be the co-protagonist with Master Beef, only it was decided that their worlds were too different for them to be in the same story.* And also, the character wasn't just my creation, so it didn't feel right.

But enough of this pointless history!

This new story is going to be an accumulation of many of the crazy ideas we've had over the years that we've known each other. It'll be much easier to write than Agaffa, because we'll have much more to work with. Five years of friendship's worth, in fact. Hopefully it'll have a slightly better plot too, but we also want it to be equally as chaotic, if not more so.

I leave you now with one word: magic.

* TA is currently enjoying its fourth title. Originally (when this other character was going to be in it), it was called And Fools Seldom Differ. When it was decided that this other character wasn't going to be in it, it lost this title and assumed a simple working one of Master Beef. (The only Beef bit that actually got written under the AFSD title was the opening microwave-chiselling scene...no more was written until March the next year, by which time it had long been changed.) Although I can't remember why I changed my mind about using the original name then, I'm glad I did, because I now I think it sounds like the title of an old British sitcom...probably from the BBC.

A little over a year ago, once I'd decided a vague plot, I changed it to The Manifesting Surreal, and it became The Aberration at the start of this year because it now had a slightly different vague plot.

Labels: agaffa, the aberration

# posted by Chris @ 9:35 PM