The Dreamscape Universe of An Aspiring Scribe

"One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory." --Neil Gaiman, 'American Gods'

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Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I'm a 21-year-old college student with dreams of being a professional writer. As you can tell from this blog, I certainly have the ego for it!

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Writing Update, Part Duex

So I've finished what I would say is about one-third of my outline. I want to have three acts, a prologue, and likely an epilogue as well.

Right now, I'm at the point where things change dramatically; not necessarily the climax, but the point where everything you believed about the direction the story was going to take has to be chucked out the window. I'd say it's only the first of quite a few WHAMS that the plot will throw. These will naturally increase in size with each successive blow, starting with a wrench, then moving on up to a crowbar, a sledgehammer, and an anvil.

Maybe if you're lucky, I'll even post the title I have in mind. And possibly the premise, too.

Be seeing you,
Steven

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