I decided that The Last Great Minds of 2084 was just a little too heady for the work, even though it is a literary piece. I have renamed the both the novel and screenplay World-Mart, which I believe will appeal to the larger target audience I feel is appropriate for the works. The novel is literary, but it is also quick-paced and suited for a broad adult and young adult audience. The screenplay is very dramatic, but also very sci-fi, and I think the previous title sold the story a little short.
I have also decided, at least for now, that I am going to name my entire dark fantasy trilogy The Darkness and the Night, and simply define the three different story lines as Book One, Book Two, and Book Three. I may change my mind on this again, or I might decide simply to give each a separate subtitle. I still have a few months before I'm finished writing all three, so I still have some time before I have to make my final decision.
Even then, as evident in World-Mart, a.k.a. The Last Great Minds of 2084, a name can change at any time....
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I'm not sure how common this is, but it seems like every time I hit around page two hundred or two-twenty I also hit this strange, surreal slump that seems to persist until I force myself to take a day or two break from my work. I think part of it is seeing that speck of light peeking in from the end of the tunnel, and another likely factor is that small sense of burn-out that comes with working and perfecting one storyline for months straight, knowing just how much work the hundred or so remaining pages might be ... hoping that the last third of the story will live up to the first two. Although this is probably the longest I've ever worked on a rough draft (only averaging 2-5 pages a day) I am very happy with the progression of this story, so far. I'm at 180 pages, and the pacing is coming along well. I just cannot express enough how excited I am about this project; I can't wait to share more. Oh, the joys of writing a well-organized and heavily inspired piece! I'm finally getting around to retyping some of the essays I've been meaning to post. As I wrote many of them on dinosaurs, using formats that my current computer cannot process, I'm having to rewrite them manually. While this is not too much of a problem, as I can type pretty quickly, it does take away from my current project, my first of two sequels to my novel and screenplay, The Darkness and the Night. |
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