symbolic 63: grids
I'm working on the plan for the BOOK OF LIES. Though I was part of the dog and pony show at the Keystrokes workshop last weekend, I came home with some good ideas as well. Sort of that whole give and take thing. I kind of hurried in with a cheatsheet card that I shared with the group and now, nearly a week later, I've been giving it some more thought and putting the concept to use.
Instead of breaking things down into 25 chapters like I did before, I'm putting everything into 12 boxes. It's a convenient structure which sets up a four-part three-stage outline as well as nicely following twelve months if I need to spread out the fulfillment of the boxes that long (please, God, no). The cheatsheet is a tiny wallet card where I can put the basic idea of each section into its respective grid, but while at home, I can spread out the 3 x 5 cards.
Yeah, really old school, I know. I even had to go out and buy some this afternoon. I've also sharpened a pencil and made sure it had a good eraser in case, you know...
I'm starting off with a single word or phrase in the upper right of each card -- something that I can crib down to a box an inch long and a third of an inch wide. On the left will go the individual chapter notes -- how many, how long, specific actions which occur therein. It's -- ohmigod! -- almost like having a plan.
I know that middle hump is out there. I'm trying to dodge it; I want to see it coming and to be ready for the uphill grind.
writing
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THE MISFIT LIBRARY
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SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
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