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Writers block- Lost in the formlessness.

  • Oct. 5th, 2006 at 10:38 AM
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Since I have a little downtime before I begin working again- I've been playing a lot of Civilization 4, and working on my metafiction/False Document. I've been having a lot of trouble on that front- I have notebooks full of notes- sketches, research, etc for my stories- but it is entirely fragmented. Basicly- I have the following:

  • A long (about 170 pages) backstory which was originally intended to be a stand alone fantastic fiction with a historical/biblical background.
  • 20 postcards I designed 2 years ago that all have encrypted messages related to a larger storyline with an encryption I designed.
  • 15 Essays written by "experts" on the various subjects in my book- mainly dealing with martial arts history, archeology, paleontology, linguistics, anthropology, plastic surgery, and swarm intelligence. Basicly, these were written as a way to convince the reader that the things I am writing about are plausible- as well as to throughly educate myself about the plausability and limitations of the subject matter I was writing into my fiction.
  • A long timeline of events in the form of a journal by one character experiencing all of the above, either by creating it, hearing about it by another character, or merely interacting with someone that will later have input upon those subjects.

So the problem is- "what now?"

How do I take all this stuff and make it into something a person would want to read? What would the format be? Something like Griffin and Sabine? More like House of Leaves, or Dictionary of the Khazars? What do I do?

Does this sound interesting to any of you? Thoughts?

pps: If you haven't already- read Myths over Miami from the Miami New Times in June of 1997. I just reread it yesterday- still one of my favourite things.