Codename.

Title of first book is not determined yet. The codename for it will be 1947.

Field trip.

A field trip is in order. Possibly two field trips. With all of the reading work about places, it would be beneficial to reach out and touch some of the locations being written about in SUBJEKS.

One location is relatively close to me, in nearby Montauk, New York. A simple trip by car. And as long as I’m driving by it on my way, I might as well throw in a requisite Hamptons visit. It shouldn’t be all work and no play.

Another location on the research trip roster is Roswell, New Mexico, which surprisingly (to me) is a location that I have not ever visited in my life. Both of these places will figure into the story setting, and while I have done much book research on both places, especially upon the latter, the whole experience would be better served by a couple of field trips. For research.

Currently also working on coming up with a title or meaningful/descriptive code-name as a placeholder for the the first novel.  In my head, and on paper, the whole SUBJEKS project is beginning to take shape as a trilogy. A title can always changes, no doubt, and I don’t mean to worry about what to call my first book at this point. This intent is more one of encapsulating the project with a stamp of professionalism. so that I may cease calling it the very uninformative “My writing project”, or the familiar “You know, the story I’m working on”. Even the apt title of “SUBJEKS” doesn’t work, since right now no one even knows what that means but me.

Tweak.

Will be doing a bit of design changes to this theme. Haven’t played with CSS/XMTHL is some time. Trying to also figure out the Tumblr stuff so if things seems chaotic please pardon the dust my legions of loyal followers.

Research on the brain.

The New Year is here and I plan to get a first draft of SUBJEKS completed this year. I have as of late been relegated to a world of what I would like to think could be regarded as “high research”. But then, that sounds way too sexy for what it really is.

In any event, it has been an enjoyable learning process to cover things not learned before like alchemy, foreign mythology, and apocryphal texts not to be included in many modern bibles. These mystical subjects are finding a very interested researcher, quietly living some boyhood adventure that wouldn’t have been appreciated had I had to have read this material at that age.

Character development has been changing, namely in some chief players who I originally had staked on the side of “good” if it can really be called that. If we were running a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, I have not changed my mage character to a fighter. Instead, I have merely changed his alignment. In this case, from lawful to chaotic. This polarizing shift in intent has me reshuffling some of the general layout but if anything, I believe that some greater depth in the story will rinse out in the telling because of it. I hope…

NaNoWriMo, here we go!

I have been contemplating the format of SUBJEKS for a while now. Should it be a comic book, should it be a graphic novel, should it be a novel… Perhaps it is a nudge from the gods, but coincidentally today begins NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. The whole goal: write a novel in the month of November.

And so begins my quest in completing SUBJEKS as a written novel…

although I’m replacing it with a lightning fast Macbook Air, I’m a little sad to say goodbye to the trusty old netbook hackintosh I built.

Alright Tuesday, let’s do this!

Eating cheese, chocolate, crackers, and meat while drinking a bottle of Caymus and reading books about alchemy is what is really going on.

Kicking this holiday weekend off with a Louis season 1 marathon, streaming on @netflix.