What are you Writing now?

EPOCH6 · 02-28-2017, 02:05 PM

I've been working on a sort of private mapbook project for the last 2 years documenting/photographing the current status and history of unusual/hidden locations across southwestern Canada, anything from abandoned gold/silver mines, trapper cabins, remote tree forts, hidden campsites, abandoned scrapyards, makeshift paintball arenas, and waterfalls to derelict homes, warehouses, industrial buildings, farms, villages, and ghost towns. It's currently 300 pages long and covers locations from Vancouver to just across the Alberta border. I have no intentions to publish it in the future because publicizing directions to these places greatly accelerates their destruction, but I do share it with close friends and family.

I'm heading out on a 1600 km road trip (round-trip) from the Fraser Valley to Jasper, AB in two weeks to add as many new pages as I can.

Old picture, it's 100 pages thicker today.

Chiomara · 02-28-2017, 02:13 PM

Oh, that sounds fascinating. Things like that are greatly needed; definitely a worthwhile endeavor (at least to those like myself who are obsessed with ghost towns and the like.)
Do you ever post photos of these places here on this forum?

The Batlord · 02-28-2017, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiomara

Oh, that sounds fascinating. Things like that are greatly needed; definitely a worthwhile endeavor (at least to those like myself who are obsessed with ghost towns and the like.)
Do you ever post photos of these places here on this forum?

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/82...es-you-go.html

Chiomara · 02-28-2017, 03:19 PM

Does anyone else get the majority of their story ideas from dreams? That's where most of mine emerge. I've long wanted to write a two-part book (one set in the 1930s, the other in the 50s) loosely based upon a distressingly vivid recurring dream I used to have which took place in a tiny, cloistered town in the 1930s that was terrorized by a religious cult leader and a family dispute. (With some magical realism, mental illness, abuse and murder thrown in. It will not be an easy thing to write due to some of the subject matter.)

The research involved will take a couple years. And will likely involve traveling to various tiny Appalachian towns as well as various small southern evangelist churches.. So, I've no idea when that process will start. Also, halfway through planning all this years ago, I discovered that there in fact existed a real, long-running school that was almost exactly like the one I'd imagined/dreamed called the Dozier School for Boys. (A horribly abusive place that was responsible for countless deaths.) So I now feel the need to do some in-depth research about that place as well.

Shamefully, I'm not even entirely sure what the core plot will consist of exactly. I know that book one will end with a murder near the juke joint occurring during the cult's nocturnal river baptism, and that book two will focus mainly on the adult children of those in book one.

Truly, it would all work far better as either a film or a graphic novel (storyboarding it was a breeze, though unfortunately I never finished that process) so I probably ought to practice drawing again... Which I haven't done in, oh, about a decade or so. Although if I went that route, I'd likely make it more of a southern-gothic vengeance tale.

I would also LOVE to write a brief illustrated history of some of the more eccentric and neurotic famous women (including minor princesses and empresses) of yore. Little Edie Beale, Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, Zelda Fitzgerald, etc. Or perhaps not, seeing as Kate Beaton (of the Hark! a Vagrant webcomic) has already done that far better than I ever could.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/82...es-you-go.html

Ah, thank you (I was aware of that thread but couldn't remember if he'd posted in it)

Trollheart · 02-28-2017, 03:25 PM

Personally, I never remember my dreams. I usually have a vague idea just before wakefulness asserts itself, but by the time I'm fully awake I've forgotten the dream, and I know (with a very hazy recollection) some of them have been epic. I did get an idea for a story once from one, but I never went ahead with it.

Yes, that Dozier School seems/seemed a horrible place. My sister watched a documentary on it not so long ago. Very harrowing, I believe.

Finally, you should include in your list of famous/slightly eccentric/completely off the charts women Countess Bathory...

**Frownland** · 02-28-2017, 03:28 PM

Since most of my writing focuses on sanity, I get enough inspiration when I'm awake.

Pet_Sounds · 02-28-2017, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

The longest thing I've ever written was one and a half pages long. I write to express some very specific idea or concept and I cut everything that seems like filler to me. My stuff is usually just about a dozen lines long and I write about 3-4 poems/texts a year. **** all you graphomaniacs. Jk, I even envy you a bit.

Typical engineer.

Mondo Bungle · 02-28-2017, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiomara

Does anyone else get the majority of their story ideas from dreams? That's where most of mine emerge. I've long wanted to write a two-part book (one set in the 1930s, the other in the 50s) loosely based upon a distressingly vivid recurring dream I used to have which took place in a tiny, cloistered town in the 1930s that was terrorized by a religious cult leader and a family dispute. (With some magical realism, mental illness, abuse and murder thrown in. It will not be an easy thing to write due to some of the subject matter.)

The research involved will take a couple years. And will likely involve traveling to various tiny Appalachian towns as well as various small southern evangelist churches.. So, I've no idea when that process will start. Also, halfway through planning all this years ago, I discovered that there in fact existed a real, long-running school that was almost exactly like the one I'd imagined/dreamed called the Dozier School for Boys. (A horribly abusive place that was responsible for countless deaths.) So I now feel the need to do some in-depth research about that place as well.

Shamefully, I'm not even entirely sure what the core plot will consist of exactly. I know that book one will end with a murder near the juke joint occurring during the cult's nocturnal river baptism, and that book two will focus mainly on the adult children of those in book one.

Truly, it would all work far better as either a film or a graphic novel (storyboarding it was a breeze, though unfortunately I never finished that process) so I probably ought to practice drawing again... Which I haven't done in, oh, about a decade or so. Although if I went that route, I'd likely make it more of a southern-gothic vengeance tale.

I would also LOVE to write a brief illustrated history of some of the more eccentric and neurotic famous women (including minor princesses and empresses) of yore. Little Edie Beale, Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, Zelda Fitzgerald, etc. Or perhaps not, seeing as Kate Beaton (of the Hark! a Vagrant webcomic) has already done that far better than I ever could.

Ah, thank you (I was aware of that thread but couldn't remember if he'd posted in it)

I dunno if I've ever written about anything else

rostasi · 02-28-2017, 04:11 PM

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Trollheart · 02-28-2017, 06:42 PM

Mondo, did you manage to get that file to work? I'd be interested in your thoughts. Finishing it in the morning, or tonight if I can.

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Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	Oh, that sounds fascinating. Things like that are greatly needed; definitely a worthwhile endeavor (at least to those like myself who are obsessed with ghost towns and the like.) Do you ever post photos of these places here on this forum?