deLayed fiction

A little over a year ago I started writing what I believed was going to be the best thing I’d ever put together on paper.  In the end I found out more about myself in putting hand to keyboard and discovered I lacked maturity in my writing. It was a hard realization.

Through the writing of this tome I probably hurt some people, weirded some people out and generally acted like a fool to others. I used real names and real situations. The story cut very close to home throughout the three parts of the anthology. In the end I relegated the writing to the archives of my files.

Now I’ve had some time to grow. I’ve had a chance to think it over over the last year and decide that indeed I want to write this story. I’m going to have to rewrite the story from the start, but this is what I want to do. I feel the urge to tell my story or at least part of it via my writing. Whether this is dangerous or not I’m not sure I’m in the position to care.

All I know is that I want to tell the story of me and the idea of Love. Perhaps there’s even a twisted need wrapped up in all this. Just be ready for this thing to start appearing here starting around mid July.

The title? It’ll still be “Littleton in Love”.

More to come.

It’s never really over.  I mean, it will be eventually for me.  I’ll fade from this world into the next and people might cry about it.  Fifty years later they’ll forget me.  It’s the truth.

Depressed yet?  Then you’ll love what I’m cooking up in my spare time.  “Darkness Falling” has been running around in my head for awhile and I’ve been trying to cook up a starting chapter to get it rolling through the canyons of my mind.  Tonight the lightening struck the bulb in my head and huzzah, writing spilled forth onto my keyboard.

It’s a very darkly themed story. Read the still rough draft of a overview here and then check out the first chapter. Then comment. Or complain. Or something.

More to certainly come on this particular entry into my writing.

Fun facts: 13 years after being 13 leads us to 26, which is my age right now. Odd how numbers work the way they do.

Chapter 13 is up and rocking. The truth of the Empire is finally revealed and the name of the legend they seek is also put to paper. This chapter is a very talky informative chapter but it’s still a worthy addition to Legend of Seven. Those words are actually spoken in the book for the first time. And it only took 13 chapters!

I think I’ve said this before, but I look at this book as my personal treasure. I’ve actually enjoyed creating this creation and the breathing life into the characters bit by bit. Chapter 13 sets us up to meet the legend and also starts to push the story towards the tipping point of where the real action begins. The Empire and The Blood Admiral are coming, hunting for the whatever may stand in their way.

Dang I love writing!

She is a evil and dark taskmaster, in case you didn’t know that already.  Writing is one of the worst mistress/muses of all time.  She means different things to different people.  Heck, she could be a ‘he’ to someone other there in writer world.  My point is she’s a) not friendly, b) not easy and c) one very mean lady.  The last month I’ve struggled to put myself back to writing for “The Legend of Seven” and have yet to find my starting point.  I ran out of steam.  The brainstorm has calmed to a light drizzle.  More of a misting really.

The point is that I’ve had nothing to write for many months.  I’ve tried to reinvent some new story ideas.  I’ve dug into my “dumping ground” folder to find the tales I abandoned off and on throughout my amateur writing career. It’s been rough trying to come up with something, anything. A plot point. A character action that actually goes somewhere and does *gasp* something. And yet, nothing. Not even a sausage.

Finally yesterday I dug my Harry Potter themed story out of the fog to see if I could take that tale, wrangle it into shape and do something with it. I had to read through the entire 6,000 word treatise a few times to get back in the rhythmic groove of that kind of story, but it worked! I managed to throw down another thousand words and get something moving.

Sometimes it takes time. A lot of time. But eventually you find the piece of the action you were looking for to put to paper.

It all began when I was a young kid watching television. I enjoyed Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men and yes, even Bobby’s World. But there something missing. And so I soon discovered reruns of Star Trek the original series. Without question I was hooked. The darkness of space and the missions of mercy, war and exploration were like candy for my creative mind. Soon after I discovered The Next Generation. There was no turning back. I watched as much Trek as I could. When Deep Space Nine and Voyager arrived I would catch them when I could. I have memories of watching both shows and just being enthralled beyond belief.

I was a Trekkie. To this day, I still am. So much so I write Trek Fiction. Over the years I’ve done Play be Email Role Playing Games (PBEM) and created countless memorable characters within those groups. I have a unhealthy love of Wrath of Khan and just about every other Trek film. It runs in my blood basically.

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As you can see the place is going through some…renovation.  After the first of the year I’ll be posting regularly with either Legend of Seven chapters or random flash fiction or even some more of the Create in 2008…which will actually become Create in 2009…or something catchier.

For the moment, stand by. I’ll be kicking things around for the next few weeks. In the meantime, check out my blog @ aarondelay.com/blog.

I’ve got another yet unknown part of “Darkness Falling” created and uploaded. I’m not sure why all of these ideas just suddenly come right at National Novel Writing Month screeches to a halt. I mean, if I was very motivated (and not so high on turkey and stuffing) I might have been able to put some effort into creating a novel within the next few days.

But let’s be honest. My motivation comes and goes with writing. When I find something really amazing that I enjoy writing, I’ll stick with it over time and let it percolate. I won’t rush madly into said prose with wild abandon simply to get something written out. I can’t do that. Perhaps that was my Nanowrimo issue. I didn’t have the right story in my head to run with this month. I couldn’t take “Legend of Seven” and just use it. That would be cheating. I’m a little stumped with that story right now anyways.

My star trek story just felt forced. Plus I forget it in Colorado. And my Brotherhood Mafia story was just too depressing and murderous.

So now I’ve got this random “Darkness Falling” story that is rattling around in my head. I’m writing it in pieces. There’s now (with today’s addition” two chapters under “Create in 2008″. They are untitled, unnumbered and probably not in order either. So, sorry about that.

But it is an interesting exercise for me writing from all different angles like a crazed puzzle maker.

Should be interesting. Read the second chapter here. Onwards as they say, onwards!

I will have to admit…it was hard to accept the fact that I will end up losing National Novel Writing Month due to my stupidity in leaving a flash drive at home while I flew up to Montana to spend some much needed time with my family.

I think I may have cried in my sleep last night as I tossed and turned my mind tearing itself apart trying to find a way to finish Nanowrimo. Or maybe that was the insomnia. Whatever the case, I’ve moved on from National Novel Writing Month and simply have decided to write. And write I shall.

Many times ideas just rattle around my brain, spinning like a out of control roller coaster leaping off the track and then eventually crashing to earth in a shower of sparks, flames and debris. That’s where most of my thoughts end up, smashed in the earth. Some survive and rise to walk again like Zombies seeking brains. BRAINS! BRAAAINZZZ!

Sorry, got off topic. Anyway, those ideas still survive. I’m going go ahead and go back to doing “Flash Fiction” under the moniker of “Create in 2008″ of which you will see above. The latest entrant is “Darkness Falling”. See more and the detailed description at this link.

You know what’s great?  Forgetting your jump drive that all your writing on it, especially your national novel writing month novel.  Especially that one.  So I don’t think I’m going to be able to finish National Novel Writing Month.  I could surmise what I can and try and write.  But I won’t have any of the reference stuff I need.  Heck, I can’t even remember half of the secondary characters.

So it appears I will lose another National Novel Writing Month.  I haven’t won any of the past three or four instances that I’ve been involved with.  That’s irritiating to me that for one reason or another that I can’t seem to get to the finish line.

So, here’s my white flag.  I surrender.  I quit.  I resign.  You win big ole’ writing challenge.  Again.

I’ll be back next year to try again.  As they say in baseball, football, soccer, hockey and every other sport…”There’s always next year.”

I hated the original story.  So much.  So I killed it.  With Jesus’s love of course.

I think.

Anyway…the story I want to write is here.  It’s also called Brotherhood but it’s Sci-Fi.  And Star Trek.  Yea.  I’m a geek.  But it’s a good story and I hope you’ll toss aside the Star Trek Stigma and dive in.  Check it out here. I’ll talk more about it as I continue to write it.

Live long and prosper…yo.