Arcane writing revelation:
Prose is what’s figured out
Dialogue is for working things out, aloud
Start with ASSUMPTIONS and work back
Fill in scenes to plot map
The Arcane Blog – because the Monster in a Box is half about the process of writing itself
Arcane writing revelation:
Prose is what’s figured out
Dialogue is for working things out, aloud
Start with ASSUMPTIONS and work back
Fill in scenes to plot map
one who has suffered profound, deep, and dense depression
yet maintains an optimistic outlook, even absurdly so
Alternate Universe
Love Story
of A Thousand Lifetimes
A Journey Within
For All Involved
You are the OBSERVER
Welcome, Observer!
Awesome way to drop story clues
Red herrings
For a story in progress
Details change, it happens (with shitty intel)
Create
Write about it
Write
Create about it
And other alliterations
I’m conjuring a novel out of thin air before your eyes. A series of stories, all planned out, obsessed over for two decades. It has grown into a project, truly a Diary of the Weird, irreverent, gross, heart-wrenching, genre-bending, reality-bending, multimedia experience – a helluva trip so far – and I’m asking if you want to come along for the journey.
Art on your phone
Everyone loves episodes, so let’s get past the expression novel and go with episodes.
Books, yes, eventually, but stories first
Content first
It is what it is, right
Characters
Have episodes
Are themselves episode categories
The lines have blurred for me, writing The Arcane Diary, and so too, might they for you.
Read on, with caution, at arcanediary.com. It’s mostly free. You know you want to…