Fragments
So, alongside my assorted project folders I have one labelled 'fragments'. This is where I keep things that were neat ideas, but didn't seem to have enough life in them to actually be anything more then just a little small blurb or a blip. It has a lot of interesting quotes in it, copies of some wacky statistical stuff, copies of bits of found photography and imagery, and lots of small writing pieces of a scene or a character sketch.
One of my favorite fragments, and something I've tried to do a bit with a few times in the past, and one of my longest fragments is this weird little conversation between an angel and devil at a coffee shop. Just the two of them reminiscing and enjoying some pie. Very rough, very unpolished, but a fun little idea.
So it longed to be used for something and it finally linked up with a few other fragments from the folder. Strange bits on urban subcultures. A bit of interesting voodoo lore I read a while back. Pirate lore. Et cetera.
Need to find some urban photography now. Brain needs city juice.
posted by Hythian at 9:31:00 pm
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So the more I poke at this, the stranger it gets. It started out as urban-punk-shamanism and wandered off into the land of subcultural backwaters and not is peering around the cornor of political conspiracies.
The interesting part as I work on this is that I know very well that I can do this with very little fiction and a lot of fact ( well, excluding the urban shamanism bit ) simply because the world and cities are a lot more fucked up of places them most people ever realize. Finding that more and more as I read the news these days.
Mon Jan 02, 01:28:00 pm GMT-8
I am so going to have to send you a couple of my roomie's pieces, whcih totally tie into the whole urban fantasy scene. I think you'll like them.
Tue Jan 03, 07:39:00 am GMT-8
Cool. Will definately have to take a look at them. Oddly enough, the more I work on this, the bleaker it gets.
Have a lot of reference material for story background already sitting around, some of it I haven't read in years, some I never got to reading.
Hadn't realized how thorougly I'd put my blinders back on when it came to looking at both history and the present social situations.
Tue Jan 03, 11:16:00 am GMT-8
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