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| Not exactly putting my best foot forward…but this would not be an internet page if it did not offer you some level of involvement and interactivity. So, rather than spend the next three months writing in secret and polishing drafts, I thought I'd experiment with the idea of writing a novel online, and allowing surfers to comment on everything from my spelling and grammar to the development of the story line and the characters. Everybody gets acknowledged for input, but absolutely no percentage of the book sales or the movie rights (!) "But, everyone will be able to steal your work!" Right. It's happened before, the last synopsis I sent to a New York agent ended up several years later as the concept behind the new "Mummy" movie. My point is, if you are writing stuff good enough for other people to steal, you are headed in the right direction. Sure, I'll copyright the text and clearly establish date of origination - but I'd be really naïve to think that will protect a concept in a literary pool where predators and bottom feeders are in the majority. Enough…this story started as a telephone conversation with renowned fantasy artist Roel Wielinga following the news story about the family in Florida that actually volunteered to have computer chips implanted in their arms (don't expect me to believe some tech/insurance company wasn't behind the volunteerism with a big check). "That could be a novel!," said Roel…and Brave New Amerika was born. I started writing the opening paragraph and went from there. Once the first 2000 words or so are on disc, I'll flesh out an outline for the story line, then develop a complete synopsis, then devote two hours a day to the manuscript, which will produce a 70,000+ word manuscript in 30 days. We begin during the first few seconds of a nuclear fireball as it vaporizes the little community of McClellanville, South Carolina. Why? Actually I like McClellanville and would rather have wiped out Augusta, Georgia (The National Golf Club would naturally, by some miracle, survive), but little McClellanville just suits the needs of the storyline better than anywhere else I would like to destroy… |
What kind of comments -- say anything, good bad indifferent -- one way or another I will use it or ignore it. Remember, I am a writer, so handling rejection, scorn, hate, villification is just part of another day at the office. What I would REALLY
like to hear is what do YOU think should happen next? What will happen
to Frances?? Where will the plot lead her. Is she a main character
or a bit player? Could there ever be a character such as Pierpoint
Davison? Or a sinister group such as the one orchestrating the steps
that will take us all into a Brave New Amerika??? Not every comment or contribution needs to be to the storyline. If you want to take this text and edit it - well, thanks! No-one writes a perfect draft first time, any more than an artist has every detail of visual law and construction in his mind when he begins to paint. My first concern is to get thoughts on paper (or on file today), the grammar, the spelling and other niceties come later. More
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