the ramble dump

I wanted to try something new. Something different. Something short and experimental, to see what I could do with words.

A guy with a fantastical contraption attached strapped to his back and goggles on his head. The contraption sputters into action. The ascent, the feeling of gently rising and of the ground falling away. The split-second moment of flight. Falling back down to earth. The air gushing past, the feeling of disappointment.

I never wrote it. But the idea stuck.

I felt like beginning a new story. But how? I began it with this idea. No plot. No greater meaning. Just the short-lived flight of a character. How would it work? Would he have a contraption strapped to his back? How would I continue it from there?

Maybe he achieves flight some other way. Maybe there's...an explosion. A building explodes, and he's right by it. A dramatic opening scene.

Then I continued it from there. What made it explode? How are all these other ideas that have grown at an insane rate since it began back in May connected to it? What's the completely crazy ending and answer to those questions that finally clicked into brainly place a few months ago?

I know. You don't. Ner ner.

It started out with all the characters based on a group of people I knew. At one point, I thought it wouldn't work any other way. Now, knowing exactly where I want to go with it, it will only work if I don't do it this way. It was useful at first, helping me to kick-start it all, but now I need the freedom of not basing it explicitly on real people. There are restrictions that come with doing it that way. You're limited to what you can do, because some things just wouldn't be appropriate. And some characters were just people-for-the-sake-of-being-people anyway.

So, there's change. I am keeping just a few of the old characters though, because it really wouldn't be City of Anarchy without them. And they're based on good friends who can take it, anyway, not just people I've only spoken to once or twice. Although they might want to keep telling themselves that their characters are only loosely based on themselves. Because even they're going to be much more...intense.

The Fat Man In Tweed launchdates have been decided, by the way.

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# posted by Chris @ 9:34 PM