Making things up

A long time ago, but not so long ago that I've yet forgotten about it, a certain someone (who I shan't name on the basis that he'll probably step forward to identify himself anyway) tasked me to come up with the titles of three short stories (there may have been a fourth, but if so it's name escapes me). The three titles (that I can recall) are:

1. Revenge of the Amnesiac God
2. Joy
3. The Peculiar Adventures of Pluckrose and Growlpetal

I'm still hopeful that I'll one day see the finished stories, but in the meantime, I thought I might try to start filling in the blanks myself, basically making a stab at some creative writing and posting the results up here for all to see. I have a few motivations for this: having suggested the titles, I obviously have some attachment to them and I'm loath to see them fall by the wayside. There's also the fact that I've been at a loose end searching for interesting things to write about that don't concern the dreaded f-word, as well as the simple reason that don't I feel I've been challenging myself adequately lately. Of course, it may just be that I'm in a particularly masochistic mood and the idea of opening myself and my works (such as they are or might be) to public ridicule seems like just a darn peachy idea.

But mostly I want to start making something. I have a venue and an audience (yes, that's you - now sit back down I'm not done with you yet) so it would practically be a waste not to. The titles above are simply a place to start. Not, the only place to start though. I suppose before I start anything new I should finish off something else. About seven years ago I wrote a prologue for a short story. It's actual origins stretch back even further than that - nearly 14 years I believe. It's been following me around for that long at least (it's even been lurking here on this site). Perhaps it's something I'm fated to revisit every 7 years or so. But let's say that I'll make a stab at finishing it now. It's been a long time since I've looked at it and there's are a few changes I'd make now (which I still might), but small things mostly.

This is probably beginning to sound as though I have some sort of plan. Let me disabuse you of that notion. I have no real idea how it will work or if it will work. I'm notorious in my own mind for thinking up an idea and leaving it to fester without ever doing anything with it. That may well happen again here, although now that I've made a vague sort of public commitment I'm hoping not. I'm also not going to dedicate my blog to it. Rather it's going to be an ongoing process and I'll post up new chapters as and when I'm ready.

And when am I going to begin this grand endeavour? Why, tomorrow of course. Start as you mean to go on after

Thought iMark at August 30, 2005 11:59 PM | TrackBack