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Not Broken!
I got out for the first time since mid-March even if it was only to go to the doctor’s office.
Got A Boo-Boo
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ ~W. H. Auden
So, Monday night I nailed my forearm on the edge of the desk and it hurts like a son of a gun. Nice long scratches and a noteworthy abrasion. All good, but I’ve got this bump.
I trace my finger along my other forearm and there’s no bump. I figure there’s tissue swelling to explain the bump but there’s a strange, sharp sensation down inside. Naturally, I set up an appointment with the Doctor’s office.
YOU CAN’T GO OUT!!!
But I’ve got to. I have an appointment and they might need to take an x-ray. So, reality kicks in, and I’m allowed to go to the doctor’s…
BUT NOWHERE ELSE!!!
Well, technically, I didn’t go IN the McDonalds for breakfast or IN the Dunkin for donuts and munchkins, so it’s all good on the flyest dope maneuver technicality. 😜
Live lyrics from the bank of reality ~ I kick the flyest dope maneuver technicality ~Flavor Flav
Relaaaaaax…
Elmer Fudd – “Peace & Weewaxation—CONGA!”
I’ve heard that some public spaces in some states are beginning to open again or will do so in the not-too-distant future. With or without a park, you can still have peace and relaxation anytime on YouTube where they multi-hour jazz compilations reside.
I find these helpful whether I’m on a writing sprint or just working on the content or technical stuff involved in my various sites. I hope you find them enjoyable.
Eventually, I’ll come up with another idea for a video on my own channel. I’ve been more interested in watching than creating lately. For everything there is a season…
Relaxing Jazz Music
Background Chill Out Music
Music For Relax,Study,Work
Break and Flow
So, I haven’t been posting word counts on Facebook lately.
Part of that is because I took a break for the weekend to celebrate our 28th Anniversary.
Part of that is because I took a break to step back and reevaluate the storyline. I’m over 90K words in and I’m not quite as close to the end as I need to be. I’m looking at what I have already and I don’t feel that it’s meandering. I was worried about that but I don’t think it’s the case.
I may need to rethink the 8 book series. It may take more than 8 to get where I’m going. I think I need to add some more POV characters in order to bring in some of the villainous goings-on that fall outside the scope of my existing POV character’s awareness. The third-person omniscient version that I started with had more access to the villains.
My heroes and almost-antiheroes don’t have access to the villains’ dastardly plans and internecine squabbles. One of them has just joined (reluctantly) the bad guys’ inner circle, but even he only sees a fraction of what’s going on with them.
It seems like good storytelling with what I’ve got, but without the villains’ squabbling and plotting being shown, it seems like they’re flailing around in the dark. Even James Bond movies show the leaders of SPECTRE having a diabolical confab.
On the other hand, detective stories typically have only the detective’s perspective and (s)he has to piece it together. This is not a detective story.
This is more of a character-driven adventure story in the superhero genre. In the comic books, superhero TV and movies, you have access to the villains. POVs aren’t getting me there unless I make the villains some of my POVs.
Problem is, I’ve been diving deep into the good guys’ motivations and reactions to life in the big city. I don’t know that I really want to run around inside the heads of some of these guys. They’re into rather bad stuff and it’s not a headspace I’m excited to inhabit.
So, you can see my dilemma. I’ve got a story to tell that involves some bad people doing bad things for really bad reasons. The big question is exactly how deeply to delve.
The Sentinels are intended to stay above it all. Way above.
In fact, they’ve got the top five floors of 55 Centre Park West (the Sentinelsverse equivalent of where Dana Barrett lived in Ghostbusters) as their headquarters.
Foxfire and Lucky designed the Sentinels to be squeaky clean and way above the fray in true Silver Age comic book style. The problem is that, as much as they have been trying to raise the people of Empire City up on good vibes, the bad guys keep diving deeper into the morass of human wickedness.
The question remains, how far down the rat hole do the readers need to go with them? Clearly, I need more bad guy stuff in the story to help put things in proper perspective.
The question is:
How do I pick bad guys who have enough access to the badness to put some missing pieces together without being bad enough to make you want to scrub off with a wire brush after you’ve visited the dark space between their ears?
Good question. Hopefully, I’ll even come up with an answer for it…
So, I’m sitting here with my arm on an icepack doing my do. I hope life is treating you well and that your state or county opens from COVID19 lockdown very soon.