Greetings ghouls and ghasts for another episode of 'How not to welcome your readers'. Bleugh!
I admit the joke was lame, but it did what it was supposed to so yeah... just.. ignore it, I guess?
Anyways I just got home from a lovely two-hour long walk (similar to yesterday), enjoying the fall, autumn or whatever you want to call it as much as possible, trying admittedly a bit desperately to ignore the cold and mist currently going on in Bremen. Yesterday it had me thinking whether I stumbled upon Silent Hill by accident and what I might have done to deserve that.
Aside from me walking around outside without no real aim or purpose, I finished a first "test-query" as I like to call it for Loner's Peak and got a bit deeper into the whole subject of finding a name for the whole trilogy thing. I first got caught up on "carnivore" for a while and then switched over to "omnivore" as it fits the whole thing rather nicely on various different levels.
Yet currently I'm annoying a couple of people whether or not a few of the pseudo-latin word combinations I came up with are legit or not. I wouldn't want to use stuff that is essentially incorrect.
(I kinda liked "omnivoras" judging solely from the sound of the word, but Portuguese doesn't really fit my whole plan and stuff.)
What I also delved into over the last 24 hours is this little list of prompts published origionally on the twitter account of Donald Maass, literary agent and author of various books that are aimed at helping new writers to get published. The list is currently made up of 58 of these more or less small 'tasks', all trying to get you to rethink parts of the story you are writing and hopefully add some more depth to it. A new one is added on a weekly basis.
In other words, I've been checking Loner's Peak keeping these prompts in mind with mixed results so far. There are a few ones that are just impossible to realize with the way the story is set up (having two main characters doesn't make any easier either), others are looking farely well done (concerning my work-in-progress) and a few ones... well... let's just say they gave me a few ideas I think I still have to implement one way or the other.
In any case it's something I'd recommend to check out for anybody who wants to write a story for the first time. The key is, as always, not to follow blindly the leads that are given to you but to evaluate. Yet essentially it's a great collection of things that really let you think through the stuff you already came up with on your own, enhancing the universe you (re)created by a fair bit.
I, for my part, already saved those prompts that are published on said site in an extra file as a resource for anything I'll come up with and write in the future. It definitely helped me with smoothing out a couple of rough edges of my story so far.
Also, as of yesterday I started moving a few sites around on this blog, which could lead to a couple of broken likes to the page for 'Loner's Peak' in older posts. I can safely say that any new ones won't be affected. And all in all it's only the site for Loner's Peak that got a new, more sensible address.
I already tried to correct as many of the old links as possible yesterday evening, but I can't tell for sure whether I caught all of them or not. Anyways... you have been warned and/or informed.
But I guess this should be enough for one day's worth.
As always thanks for reading and stopping by.
Marc, the still Eager... not 'eagle' for christs sake... E-A-G-E-R
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