Three Universes
When tackling a writing project as vast as the one I am attempting to piece together it seems that distractions are at every turn. The reason this project has become to complex is simply that I would get slightly bored working on the same thing and jostle down completely different stories. I would spend ages developing them and then find weird ways in which they can coincide with each other.
That is how the story of Shine became an event ocuring chronologically alongside the Diary of Lee Brighton, the beginning of this whole escapade. Public Service Announcement evolved as an attempt to write something in the original timeline I had set, but it in turn became a neat way to flash back to the background events of Diary and show the end results while telling the story I wanted to tell.
I was burnt out on the future at that point. I started writing about a “What if?” past that I could develop into a stand alone novel as well as use the sidestory for the game Jake is developing. That’s when Operation Scarlet Fever popped into my head as a way to tie Universe A and Universe B together.
Now what the fuck I’m doing with Falia I still don’t know. I have politics, scandal, immortality, ghosts, (all the trademarks of Shine, when I think about it…) fantasy, sea monsters and completely unique locales all taking place on a yet unnamed planet.
I don’t think I want to cheese it up and even include the notion of Space, because it seems that this story needs to be self-contained. I’m not sure how it will do in novel form. This story I think is better suited for a film or game environment. Who knows. Victorious Condritch Honour, they say.
On the other hand, while in Indiana I jotted down that the Sea Monsters (tentatively named “Gorn”…I like G words for obstacles I’ve noticed. The creatures in Simon’s storyline as well as the plotline for Jake’s game have been nicknamed the “Grell”) might be a failed creation of the Daeidra and abandoned before the other experiments went live, or more importantly before they were bothered by the notion of destroying their own creations or leading them toward self destruction. (I still haven’t worked out how important they are going to be in Shine. It adds an entire dimension to the story that isn’t developed in the other segments and therefore seems self-contained, which it certainly is not.)
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