There is one TK project that is going to come down the pike, but with my other writing engagements, as well as artist communications with Purrbast to consider, I don't see that going up this year. I think the earliest Sense Junkie will be on the forums will be early 2010. It's a novella in and of itself.
My thought process is simple with this project, as it is with all others; create different pieces than I've seen before, create engaging stories with three dimensional characters, have situations where the tickling is conveyed in an interesting manner. I might play on psychology, mental thought processes, and other such things, but for the most part, I want to make unique twists.
I want to write three other projects by 2011, and am interested (as if anyone reads this) in the ideas presented.
1.) the first idea is a rather recent one, involving a Eyes Wide Shut vibe. I have been thinking of a high class, rather intriguing sect of folks who engage in all sorts of sins of the flesh. I imagine the trappings would be ornate, the characters given a sort of masquerade quality. Here are images to sort of set what I have in mind:
Might make it a period piece, might make it a bildungsroman, I might try constructing a thriller (this might be an excuse for me to go into a darker well than I really think of in this sort of fiction). I just know a semi-setting.
2.) I remember going to Chicago a few times, and the city is a towering monolith. But what interests me so much more are the starving artists, the people who live in an apartment that is expensive because of where they live but completely embody the spirit...the essence of metropolitan inhabitance. It's intriguing to me as I have never lived in a large scale city, and the mindset involved is sort of deeply seated and oddly enough, due to have the wisps of romanticism surrounding its trappings.
This one is much more fleshed out, taking place in Chicago. It's a story about roommates who have known each other for years at a precipice in their lives. The female lead is seeing someone who wants to move her away from the city, to move out to the midwest to a quiet little suburb of Kansas City...and she isn't sure about it. Her roommate doesn't want her to leave, but acts indifferent towards it. If she leaves, it breaks apart their friendship, as she will be yanked from the world they grew up in and understand. It's a story about fighting for identity, coming to terms with expectations, and those moments of clairvoyance when everything unravels and the universe has total cohesion.
3.) While I was in college, there was this odd sense from people moving into their first apartment, or moving to completely new areas. New bonds are formed (hypothetically), but the reality is, many people have fragmented their sense of home, and with their compass no longer pointing them in a central direction, are sort of vagabonds in a spiritual sense.
This third story is about a young man moving into an apartment complex from across the country, where almost everything is alien. Smoking cigarettes in the social commons area (an outdoor place where people converge, their rooms lined up at a fixated point), he comes upon this young lass with a stud in her lip and tattoos across her arms.
She's not the sort of girl he would consider attractive, but she is now. As he begins his desk job, he starts to grow social ties with the people that surround him in his little living space, that alternative looking woman and he having a flirtatious relationship.
When those around the two see the connection, they decide to force the issue...and that is where we see the tickling come to play.
These are mere ideas I've had in my head, and I can't lie and say I know they will all come to fruition, or if they are worthy of pursuit. Lord knows if I write this style of fiction, I want it to scorch my reader, yet at the same time engage them with all the important aspects of storytelling.
Just a blog post, putting ideas out there to float.
My thought process is simple with this project, as it is with all others; create different pieces than I've seen before, create engaging stories with three dimensional characters, have situations where the tickling is conveyed in an interesting manner. I might play on psychology, mental thought processes, and other such things, but for the most part, I want to make unique twists.
I want to write three other projects by 2011, and am interested (as if anyone reads this) in the ideas presented.
1.) the first idea is a rather recent one, involving a Eyes Wide Shut vibe. I have been thinking of a high class, rather intriguing sect of folks who engage in all sorts of sins of the flesh. I imagine the trappings would be ornate, the characters given a sort of masquerade quality. Here are images to sort of set what I have in mind:
Might make it a period piece, might make it a bildungsroman, I might try constructing a thriller (this might be an excuse for me to go into a darker well than I really think of in this sort of fiction). I just know a semi-setting.
2.) I remember going to Chicago a few times, and the city is a towering monolith. But what interests me so much more are the starving artists, the people who live in an apartment that is expensive because of where they live but completely embody the spirit...the essence of metropolitan inhabitance. It's intriguing to me as I have never lived in a large scale city, and the mindset involved is sort of deeply seated and oddly enough, due to have the wisps of romanticism surrounding its trappings.
This one is much more fleshed out, taking place in Chicago. It's a story about roommates who have known each other for years at a precipice in their lives. The female lead is seeing someone who wants to move her away from the city, to move out to the midwest to a quiet little suburb of Kansas City...and she isn't sure about it. Her roommate doesn't want her to leave, but acts indifferent towards it. If she leaves, it breaks apart their friendship, as she will be yanked from the world they grew up in and understand. It's a story about fighting for identity, coming to terms with expectations, and those moments of clairvoyance when everything unravels and the universe has total cohesion.
3.) While I was in college, there was this odd sense from people moving into their first apartment, or moving to completely new areas. New bonds are formed (hypothetically), but the reality is, many people have fragmented their sense of home, and with their compass no longer pointing them in a central direction, are sort of vagabonds in a spiritual sense.
This third story is about a young man moving into an apartment complex from across the country, where almost everything is alien. Smoking cigarettes in the social commons area (an outdoor place where people converge, their rooms lined up at a fixated point), he comes upon this young lass with a stud in her lip and tattoos across her arms.
She's not the sort of girl he would consider attractive, but she is now. As he begins his desk job, he starts to grow social ties with the people that surround him in his little living space, that alternative looking woman and he having a flirtatious relationship.
When those around the two see the connection, they decide to force the issue...and that is where we see the tickling come to play.
These are mere ideas I've had in my head, and I can't lie and say I know they will all come to fruition, or if they are worthy of pursuit. Lord knows if I write this style of fiction, I want it to scorch my reader, yet at the same time engage them with all the important aspects of storytelling.
Just a blog post, putting ideas out there to float.
