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!

Monday, January 16, 2006

A Writing Update

So I'm sure you're wondering, "But Steven, according to your blog you want to be a writer. I thought writers write. Why don't you tell us about what you're writing?"

Well, to be honest, I don't do that much writing at the moment. I certainly did a lot more when I took my grade 12 writing course, and I'll certainly be doing more as I continue in my courses at college. I make sure to write a Christmas story every year, and I've been thinking about adding one for every birthday as well. Right now, I'm working on the outline for a science-fiction novel involving alien cultures and no humans. I'm very excited about it, as it will be the first major project I'll ever have outlined. I got what I consider a good chunk of it done yesterday and I'm proud of myself for working out certain plot details in the introduction that I hadn't figured out yet. I only hope I can do it again for the middle of the story, which I haven't figured out with any detail whatsoever.

Be seeing you,
Steven

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