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.
(Originally posted at A Home Away from Hythia)
January 2nd, 2006 at 2:28 pm
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.
January 3rd, 2006 at 8:39 am
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.
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:16 pm
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.