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I'd forgotten, I think, how good buses are for quality story-plotting time. Two days spent in transit, with nothing to hand except an actual paper journal (*grins*), watching the world go by the windows. Truly, there is nothing better for thinking time than (long distance) public transport.
The past two days on said buses, therefore, have resulted in two primary thoughts:
- The first is that my major problem with writing original fiction is that I have problems holding things over a longer term. Long stories and me are famously ... hit and miss -_-; I'm better at one-shots and sequential fics. So. Posited solution? Write something that is designed to be sequential. An episode-structured story, that can build a universe over a deliberate series of one-shots. This ... might work, yes? Well, it worked for Lord Dunsany, anyway. *grins faintly* Worth a try.
- The second was ... well, possibly such a story. Heh. I've been reading The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi on and off over the past few days, which is prompting my mind down strange paths, where it bumps into things like Inception, and Irish Mythology, and the concept of psychopomps, and Weregild, and Neil Gaiman, and Catherine Webb ... *grins* Maybe I might try my hand at a modern myth cycle, is what I'm saying. I have some ideas for the construction of a multi-myth universe, based in Irish mythology for a change. Heh. Sort of. Partially. I might try and work up a concept sketch in the next couple of days, see how feasible the thought is. But, the thought of being able to play with certain mythological figures in a universe of my own construction is ... tempting. *grins*
Specific figures that have been skirting the edges of my thoughts on the matter, at least in concept, being Manannan Mac Lir, Anubis, Yahweh, Odin, Janus, the Ghede ... Psychopomps, I think is the theme. The between gods. There's a reason for that. Heh. I have the shape of this thing in my head. Not sure how much of it will work, but ...
*thinky thoughts* Be nice to play with mythology off my own bat, yes? *grins* Which might be more a slightly older style of fanfiction than original work, but ... *shrugs, grins*
The past two days on said buses, therefore, have resulted in two primary thoughts:
- The first is that my major problem with writing original fiction is that I have problems holding things over a longer term. Long stories and me are famously ... hit and miss -_-; I'm better at one-shots and sequential fics. So. Posited solution? Write something that is designed to be sequential. An episode-structured story, that can build a universe over a deliberate series of one-shots. This ... might work, yes? Well, it worked for Lord Dunsany, anyway. *grins faintly* Worth a try.
- The second was ... well, possibly such a story. Heh. I've been reading The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi on and off over the past few days, which is prompting my mind down strange paths, where it bumps into things like Inception, and Irish Mythology, and the concept of psychopomps, and Weregild, and Neil Gaiman, and Catherine Webb ... *grins* Maybe I might try my hand at a modern myth cycle, is what I'm saying. I have some ideas for the construction of a multi-myth universe, based in Irish mythology for a change. Heh. Sort of. Partially. I might try and work up a concept sketch in the next couple of days, see how feasible the thought is. But, the thought of being able to play with certain mythological figures in a universe of my own construction is ... tempting. *grins*
Specific figures that have been skirting the edges of my thoughts on the matter, at least in concept, being Manannan Mac Lir, Anubis, Yahweh, Odin, Janus, the Ghede ... Psychopomps, I think is the theme. The between gods. There's a reason for that. Heh. I have the shape of this thing in my head. Not sure how much of it will work, but ...
*thinky thoughts* Be nice to play with mythology off my own bat, yes? *grins* Which might be more a slightly older style of fanfiction than original work, but ... *shrugs, grins*
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