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Tuesday, January 6th
Jan. 6th, 2015 11:55 amThe Daily Report
So, each day this week I'm going to be announcing a decision I've made for the coming year. Yesterday I was talking about my epic fantasy project, which now has a working title of The Moon Red With Blood, henceforth referred to as "TMRWB".
Today I'm talking about my plans for Harper's Folly. This project is one that was going really well in the first part of 2014 and then lost steam when I got sick and sleep deprived late in the spring.
The thing that made it hard to recover from this fumble was the format of the story, which is a mock blog. Unlike Tales of MU which is only published using a blog as the content management system, Harper's Folly was a blog-as-story. When real world time started to drift out of sync with the story time, I had a conundrum that got bigger the more time I spent trying to solve it.
I've decided the solution is to ditch the blog as publication vehicle. The story will still be told through the device of Harper's blog, complete with subject lines and date stamps... much as it already is in the ebook version. I just won't be posting it to an actual blog anymore. At the beginning publishing it as an actual blog seemed like an important part of the story's conceit, but with reflection and distance that just adds too much overhead to a story that's a side project. It almost guarantees that the same problem will happen again in the future.
I do have a solution in mind but I'm not going to go into it until I'm closer to implementing it. For now, the key points are: I'm going to be moving Harper's Folly, and continuing it in its new location.
The State of the Me
Last night was the best night's sleep I've had since before I left for Christmas. I attribute this in part to the fact that yesterday I resumed taking certain supplements I had previously cut from my regimen for budgetary reasons.
Plans For Today
My brainstorming the plot for TMRWB went muuuuch more quickly than I expected last night, leading me to the point where the only place to go further is concocting the characters, so I'm going to be doing that today. In the afternoon I'm going to shift to MU writing.
So, each day this week I'm going to be announcing a decision I've made for the coming year. Yesterday I was talking about my epic fantasy project, which now has a working title of The Moon Red With Blood, henceforth referred to as "TMRWB".
Today I'm talking about my plans for Harper's Folly. This project is one that was going really well in the first part of 2014 and then lost steam when I got sick and sleep deprived late in the spring.
The thing that made it hard to recover from this fumble was the format of the story, which is a mock blog. Unlike Tales of MU which is only published using a blog as the content management system, Harper's Folly was a blog-as-story. When real world time started to drift out of sync with the story time, I had a conundrum that got bigger the more time I spent trying to solve it.
I've decided the solution is to ditch the blog as publication vehicle. The story will still be told through the device of Harper's blog, complete with subject lines and date stamps... much as it already is in the ebook version. I just won't be posting it to an actual blog anymore. At the beginning publishing it as an actual blog seemed like an important part of the story's conceit, but with reflection and distance that just adds too much overhead to a story that's a side project. It almost guarantees that the same problem will happen again in the future.
I do have a solution in mind but I'm not going to go into it until I'm closer to implementing it. For now, the key points are: I'm going to be moving Harper's Folly, and continuing it in its new location.
The State of the Me
Last night was the best night's sleep I've had since before I left for Christmas. I attribute this in part to the fact that yesterday I resumed taking certain supplements I had previously cut from my regimen for budgetary reasons.
Plans For Today
My brainstorming the plot for TMRWB went muuuuch more quickly than I expected last night, leading me to the point where the only place to go further is concocting the characters, so I'm going to be doing that today. In the afternoon I'm going to shift to MU writing.