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Okay, I can admit it, I was having trouble with the stories. I have the plots set up in my head, it's just the finding time to get them all out without them crowding each other bit that's been having me going sideways lately. So, and I don't know where this impulse came from, I decided to check out some other authors work on one of Timmy's links. At random I choose nifty and started reading down the list, stopped and went back up the list to something that caught me completely off guard.
There was already a group of stories called the Canterbury Tales, set some where in New England, with characters that practically tell the story and think in paranthetical phrases (kinda like this). The fact that someone had mentioned that I should look at Nifty before kinda rolled through my brain then and now I see why. To say the least, I think my jaw struck oil.
Okay, so it's a short trip from calling a town a different name and then starting another series in that same town and adopting a Chaucer-like group name and finding more and more ideas developing for that story group, but the coincidences were just too mind blowing. And I'm always one for saying that there are no coincidences. Must just be a serious hit to the collective literary intelligence of all writers and scholars of the English language.
So, before I upset anyone, I'm going to say the following things right now and get it all out in the open. First, to FreeThinker, the author of those Canterbury Tales that appear on Nifty: I am in no way stealing your concept or background, my friend. Pure chance alone has led us to similar concepts, perhaps even similar styles. I had never been to the Nifty archives before just this early morning, and to be honest, I almost feel like I'm treading on someone's grave.
Second, to the readers who so frequently write to thank, praise, sometimes even get angry with me because I left them hanging (heheheh, suffer, you love it anyways), don't worry. I'm not going to just throw in the towel because I'm log jammed at the moment, or because I found out that I'm running parallel courses with another writer (who, by the way, has a wonderful grasp of the human condition and an especial knack for dealing with difficult emotions and themes, guess I'm a fan too). And don't worry, the same weird, ecclectic and often times unexpected turns that I like putting in things will still be there. Pay particular attention to the possibilities of hidden meanings and such in Coupe (but that's for another post).
See, Timmy? I'm rambling again. Must be a good sign!
(_8(P) >snicker<
Okay, just wanted to clear that up (did it work?) before I permanently go round the bend on it. And I'll keep pounding keys for our current heroes, and perhaps a few more on the horizon. I will say that there is one more story I have in mind, also set in Canterbury, Massachusetts (which, at least in my stories is a re-named town, so don't go pouring over maps for it, if you've found an actual Canterbury, Massachusetts you're looking in the wrong place). But this next one is weirder than the other two. Not because it has wonder and majesty and that odd thing called growing up in it. This one goes dark and.....well, just wait for it and you'll see (assuming Timmy likes it first, heheheeh, in which case you may not see).
I'm done. Got to see about getting my stories jump started again. And I need to alter the tonic to ice ratio in the glass beside me.
Cya,
D'Artagnon
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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I must admit that I said, "Hmmm..." the first time I started reading your story (being a long-time fan of Free Thinker's work already).
But you and he don't describe your respective Canterbury's in anywhere near similar fashions.
So, maybe send him a note about it, but don't worry. Just write already! hehe
Just as long as you don't have any characters called Justin or Josh or all those other over-used Net story names...cain't keep em all (if ya'll pardon the expression) straight in my head.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Well, I have thought about writing a story with a character named Jayce, if that's not odd enough. And Once and Future stars kids named Alex and Earl, so it's a half common and half unusual combination there. But no Justin's have made their acquaintances with me yet......although I may do something shocking with a character still forming in my head, a kid named Josh Drake,(ah but that's a two-fold play on words) who might see the light of day if the Once and Future project gets wings.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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