#paintedin

Cool idea.

Thanks.

It might be neat to follow one hero just a day or two behind and look in to the lives of all the people they interacted with.

This might become the theme of a few stories.

Or in the present, focus on everyone who has to deal with the hero as they travel from place to place.

I really want to defocus the hero, so I probably won’t have a lot of stories directly about them.  But this might make a good one shot.

Or all of one town that the hero stays in for a while and just jump from person to person.

I kinda had this idea too but I’m not sure how it would work. My origanal spark of an idea was to write the back story of a bunch of NPC characters up to the point the hero comes to town.  But I also wanted to show the aftermath of the hero being in town.  The parts of these character’s lives that isn’t normally shown.

 This would have have been one long intertwining story and I wasn’t sure how to cut from “hero comes town” to “hero has already left” smoothly.  I probably could if I sat down and started writing but I have enough unfinished long form stories.  So I decided on a series of short stories.

I've kinda almost done this a few times. No idea how it would sell but worth throwing together and putting out through Smashwords or something at least. :)

Yeah that was my thought as well.  I mean I have pages and pages of blog posts vaguely chronicling the past eight years of my life might as well do something with them.

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This is a great idea! You could mix some of the story fragments you've posted before. I can help you edit/put things together if you want.

Definitely going to work in some of my older story fragments.  In ‘09, for instance, I started a daily story written one hundred words at a time.  I made it to part 18 (week three) and realized I wanted to rewrite the whole thing but never did.  I’m torn between interweaving those posts or combining them.  I’ll let you know when I have a first draft.

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That sounds pretty cool actually. I like it.

Thanks.

So I’ve started going through my old Livejournal, Blogger, and old posts here.  I found a post I made in Jan 2012 about not wanting to write a “transition book”, as I put it back, then for basically the same reasons I listed yesterday.

One thing I didn’t expect from rereading my old posts is that I can kind of chart my depression through the years.

I’m wondering if these posts I’m making about making this book should be part of the book.