The Project

A) Someone (Ethan) suggested to get a Tumblr. It seems like a great blogging site as well as giving "seamless" integration with facebook and things that I use (as well as a plethora of other crap I don't need). Well that poses a problem for a dozen reasons, among others, I've already posted a dozen things here (all of which have stellar literary quality) and I refuse to TUMBLR them down the drain.

B) I think these posts will be a lot more streamlined from now on. A lot more "Here's what I thought about today" and less "Dear Diary, Here's what I did today."

So Dear Diary... Here's what I...

Haha...

But really, sitting in Acting 2 made me think a lot about sitting in Acting 1 (surprise, surprise) and the moment I got inspired to with a legitimate idea for my first novel. In order to help me write it, I think I'm finally ready to reveal the idea here (minus a few details so I still maintain artistic license, suspense, and so no one will steal my idea). World premiere.

So here's the concept. In one way or another about a dozen unique characters came out of my Acting 1 class. In presenting each of these characters, another student from the class was used in conjunction making it seem like Character A is best friends with Character B while later Character B was all the while talking to Character F. Know what I mean? So in my head I wrote down every characteristic that I observed and in a notebook I have about a dozen named characters with full biographies, personality traits, relationships, and mannerisms (even a few hobbies and occupations). I put them in a city and I have ideas for how they will interact but I guess what's really holding up the whole project is a few key plot points... you know... the beginning... the middle... the end. I mean, I've got individual scenes all mapped out but I can't for the life of my figure out how to start the chain. I think once I get going I can really put some shape to the beast.

Anyway, point is, if anyone wants to help or has any ideas, they can get acknowledgments, co-authorship, or even money. Yeah, I'm THAT confident in what this could turn into. It's too legit to quit.

And really, that's what this whole thing has been about. Trying to get myself to think everyday about putting words to paper... or at least keys to a word document. I figured if I thought, "Hey that's a good thing to blog about," I could finally say, "Hey that's a great thing to WRITE A STORY about" because I know when I finally get down to it I can just keep going and going.

Movies have been giving me good plot inspiration (for better or worse since people will read it and say, "Wait a second, didn't they do that in that one movie?") for other ideas I have (to be revealed later). Obviously, that doesn't help me now.

So... whose in on

The project?