So, I also want to talk a little bit about how I collated my notes, because that was a process that was a bit new to me. I don’t know if it’ll be helpful to other people, but it’s useful for me to document my learning process, so I’m just going to talk it through here anyway. Continue reading “Edit Pass Live Stage 2: Collating Notes”
Video Games and Canon
Ok, so I’m writing this with reference mainly to Little Nightmares, but it’s also worth having the discussion about games in general – since games are pretty unique when it comes to how to think about the ‘canon’ of the story. Continue reading “Video Games and Canon”
Edit Pass Live Stage 2: Task List Update
Update for the Edit Pass Live: Just got past what I feel is enough of a milestone to post the next task list.
Most of what I’ve done is the worldbuilding, but I’ve also fallen down a couple of worldbuilding rabbit holes where I added info that is most likely completely irrelevant to any part of the story or the characters in it. Still, hopefully it helps me round things out in my head. And it was fun — let’s never forget that part.
So here is the new task list, updated with what still needs to be done:
Worldbuilding Questions
Completed! See the original list here. I haven’t included it in this post mostly for clarity, but if you’re keeping score at home, that’s where to find it.
In addition to those, I also did a full history of H. Country in the past couple of hundred years, and a comprehensive biology of the non-human species, plus origin story of their people (both true and rumoured). I also ended up rewriting a few of the characters not on the list below.
Some changes are definitely going to require me to change some entire plot points, but then I always knew that was going to be the case.
The remainder of these still need doing, however.
Characters who Need Fixing
- Yerothen
- Althus
- Orothias
- Ette
- Ithild
Timeline
- Collate all my notes; split into categories so I can easily reference them
- Create new outline
Side note: I really should have collated my notes a lot earlier; it’s going to be much harder now that I’ll definitely forgotten what the heck I was talking about. But hey, since when have I ever made good choices that will make things easier for myself?
Introduction: Little Nightmares Series
Recently a friend asked me to play a game called Little Nightmares.
This request has been one of the best arguments I have for peer pressure occasionally being a good thing, because it quickly rocketed to ‘best video game I’ve played all year’ and definitely holds a place in my top five games of all time. I’ll add some qualifiers to that, because just because I love something doesn’t mean I think it’s flawless, but it definitely qualifies for one of my top five slots. Continue reading “Introduction: Little Nightmares Series”
Edit Pass Live Stage 2: Task List
Worldbuilding Questions
- Write more complete history and geography of E. Country
- Last few rulers
- Complete list of political factions
- Changes since Large Historical Event A (especially population distribution)
- Overarching opinions of H. Country
- Overarching opinions of Political Event B
- Restrictions caused by Political Event B
- Cultural and legal changes caused by Political Event B
- Decide exact place of H.H in E. Country politics.
- Rework magic system
- Exact workings of E. Country magic system
- Decide how E. Country’s system can or cannot interact with H. Country’s.
- Why must H. Country use their rune system, why not current language, since their magic is based on linguistics, not inherent to the language itself?
- Country Details (already started)
- Decide on current fashion, how style is different to E. Country, and effects of the magic system on textiles
- Better descriptions of how common households are laid out, what magics and technologies the average person has, etc.
- Common foods – what is local, what is imported
- Common family and household structures.
Characters who Need Fixing
- Yerothen
- Althus
- Orothias
- Ette
- Ithild
Timeline
- Collate all my notes; split into categories so I can easily reference them
- Create new outline
Edit Pass Live Stage 2: Background Work
So, as anyone who’s following the Twitter will know, I finished the readthrough pass. It took a little longer than I’d like, but that’s how these things shake out.
I’m also sort of glad that I chose this particular book to do the live edit pass on, because hoo boy we’re going to have material for months. Continue reading “Edit Pass Live Stage 2: Background Work”
Edit Pass Live 1: The Readthrough
Here begins the edit pass of an upcoming book that I’m going to refer to as tKC.
Some stats to begin with – since I won’t be talking about a previous phase of editing here, I’m just going to fill in some details of the actual book so that people have an idea of what I’m talking about. Continue reading “Edit Pass Live 1: The Readthrough”
Edit Pass Live
Hey everyone. I’ve been away for a while because of Worldcon, but I’ve finally found some time to get things written.
That Little Nightmares series is about to start, I promise. But I’m also doing something else at the moment that I want to run concurrently, because it’s going to be a little patchier than the rest of the cohesive series-esque-type-things that I do. Continue reading “Edit Pass Live”
Imagery and Symbolism
You know the drill by now. I like being opinionated about things, and I like analysing stories. This is yet another blog post about how I like to do it. Continue reading “Imagery and Symbolism”
Update – WorldCon
Hey all!
Quick personal update. Everything is pretty much booked and ready — I’ll be at Worldcon this year in San Jose! Super excited — I’ve never been to America before.
If anyone happens to be there, I don’t have a dealer’s stand at all, but you can message me on Facebook or Twitter if you want to catch me while I’m there.
That, or look for the one with the purple hair and the look of existential confusion.
I’m looking forward to the trip!
Whimsy and Metaphor 