I am made.
The sum of all disappointments.
There's nothing to see here.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Two Rods, A Gear
Caymen is done. It's been two weeks now, and I still can't believe it. I've done cursory editing and I'm about half done my second draft.
I suppose now's a good time to say that I'm working on a second short, so far named The Silencer. This title may, or may not, tie into the story. This one is a bit more of an aggressive story, but I'm still trying to focus on people rather than their actions, which considering the material and the timeline I've chosen, may prove to be difficult.
Whereas Caymen focused on an almost dreamlike surrealism, the underlying feel for Silencer will probably be a feeling of nostalgia on a global level, as in the first chapter alone, one of the characters has stumbled across two veritable "bone-yards" of relics from our day and age. I want to generate a feeling of almost stark contrast between sterile cleanliness and decay, kind of like a scrubbed too-blue sky held taught over the moldering ruins of society (an image that actually plays heavily in the first chapter).
There will also be an elemental of personal decay. Whereas Caymen focused on the capability for a so-called "dependent" to function and behave as a compassionate human being, Silencer will look at the opposite - how social influences have produced human beings incapable of connecting on a personal level outside of a mediated environment. It will also deal heavily with concepts of alienation, and how no matter how enlightened humanity gets, it will never be all-inclusive or united.
I'm pretty excited.
I suppose now's a good time to say that I'm working on a second short, so far named The Silencer. This title may, or may not, tie into the story. This one is a bit more of an aggressive story, but I'm still trying to focus on people rather than their actions, which considering the material and the timeline I've chosen, may prove to be difficult.
Whereas Caymen focused on an almost dreamlike surrealism, the underlying feel for Silencer will probably be a feeling of nostalgia on a global level, as in the first chapter alone, one of the characters has stumbled across two veritable "bone-yards" of relics from our day and age. I want to generate a feeling of almost stark contrast between sterile cleanliness and decay, kind of like a scrubbed too-blue sky held taught over the moldering ruins of society (an image that actually plays heavily in the first chapter).
There will also be an elemental of personal decay. Whereas Caymen focused on the capability for a so-called "dependent" to function and behave as a compassionate human being, Silencer will look at the opposite - how social influences have produced human beings incapable of connecting on a personal level outside of a mediated environment. It will also deal heavily with concepts of alienation, and how no matter how enlightened humanity gets, it will never be all-inclusive or united.
I'm pretty excited.
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