Tuesday, June 3, 2008

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

I wrote out the whole plot to a novel based on Neutral Milk Hotel's album, that is, the one that most people know about, during a slow English class. But I never came around to writing it.

MY HOBBY IS WRITING LISTS, so I might as well take a moment to make a list of writing projects that I intend to work on but have made little to no progress on:
-Neutral Milk Hotel story.
-A research project on Oak Island gone horribly awry! That was a hilarious concept to work on, I haven't done anything beyond an introduction, though it sets the plot for the rest of the work. The importance of the work is that it is a 1st person account from a researcher who witnessed the events, however he is just as roundabout and confusing with his explanations as I am.
-A sequel to a short story that I wrote, The Life of Conrad, that I actually made the first half of (it's not going to be very long). There was also a prequel that I began to write, and it strikes me as how the three works compare. The original story was a criticism of Catholicism (in its simplest form) told in the perspective of several men who are all disabled by crippling mental illness, and its importance was in how each of them viewed the world around them; most of the story was character description and crude irony. The sequel is supposed to be a philosophical work on the nature of the afterlife, with strong influences from Franz Kafka's The Trial (most of my work is strongly influenced by The Trial), and is probably one of the more serious ventures that I have attempted. The prequel is a character's obviously ludicrous and inaccurate biography, and was solely a humour piece.
-I probably want to write a campaign for the next time that my role-playing group actually lets me GM again (for some crazy reason).
-The Artist-I've done nothing on this, and forget what it is about.
-"Ruido" Story-Same here, although I wrote a note about it, so it must be important, although what little I do remember makes for a terrible story, and I do not know what I could have been thinking. I know that it's based on a very catchy YUI song, and that alone should tell me that I am making a mistake.
-My new world. I'm a fan of world building and intended to create a new one, although all I have are a lot of rough, meaningless notes scattered about.
-I had high prospects for The Evil Tree, and I think that it is one of my better ideas, and I already have a fairly decent outline for it. It's about an evil tree, surprisingly. It creates humanity or something, hilarity ensues, you've probably read something identical before.
-I wrote "Hector and Maurice", although my notes indicate that I did not.
-The Ego Story. I do not know what any of my notes on it actually mean, but they're remarkably clear compared to most of my work. That may seem contradictory, but you would be surprised if you actually saw these notes.
-"A cryptic world that a man is suddenly thrust to, as he struggles to find his way home. Experimental work." I could not think of a more apt description of what this project is. I think I may have wanted to turn it into the ego story earlier, but I would never do that, as it is a terrible idea.
-The Vampire Hunter, which has been one of my favourite ideas ever and I am so upset that I cannot think of how to implement it for the life of me. It's quite simple, a man believes that he is a vampire hunter. It shouldn't be that hard to write.
-I have a list of characters that is supposed to mean something, I assume.
-There's a story and it's supposed to have magic in it, and all that this tells me is that I need to start leaving myself better notes.

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