There's a scene near the end of Sci Fi's "Children of Dune" Episode 1 that I fell in love with. A very slow moving song superimposed over quick dissolves of slowmotion action involving every single character in the story up to that point. This one scene ends major storylines for most characters, while other characters not directly involved in an ongoing plot (yet) simply watch a thunderstorm from their windows. The only thing linking all these scenes is music and the thunderstorm.
I would very much like something like in AWFW. And I feel something larger beginning to build up in Act III of AWFW, one which we'll see the above line. A very hefty storyline is brewing down the line. One which I'm very unsure of, but if I can do it, we will see an AWFW version of the above story before a major...something.
It amazes me howquickly things in this story I never originally intended are beginning to form up. The "temptation" sequence of AWFW was never part of my story. There was no such thing as Abaddon. Red and Blue were just decorations. There was no green and yellow magic.
And just while watching this sequence, my characters formed up a story we'll see in the future, matches all previous continuity and provides for an etched-in-stone ending I've had since Day One. And the ending of the story is now an epilogue.
I've never really questioned the mechanism that writes stories in my head. However, Strangelove has asked me about this recently, and it actually part of the chat he had with my characters.
Usually, I come up with a basic plot (Guy moves in with Girl, Girls wants to be an Angel, Friend gets Kidnapped) and a character or two will pop up (Carrie, Andrea, Susan). Then from there I tell them to go make a story and they do. They come back and introduce me to people that are involved in their plot (Allison, Hanna, Zand).
I never even sit and THINK about these stories. They come to me. Whole scenes play out, bits and pieces expand to huge canvases and landscapes (Allison's secret, The Blue/Red War, Nine books from 15 sentences). I have basic ideas of what I want the stories to do. The characters get their on their own, and show me later, and there's no interaction from me or the outside world unless something "catches" their eye.
While I was watching Dark City, the first scene of Jennifer Connelly singing, Carrie popped up in my head and said she wanted to do that. She came back with a plotline that snakes through Closetspace and eventually becomes a Suzanne Vega-ish singer. Sometimes I'll see a scene (like the Dune one) and suddenly see a "plot point" superimposed over it, using the same direction.
I don't question who these people are in my head. They're 100% real, interacting intheir own world, and their own stories, who sole purpose is To Tell the Story. Some people have said I literally was creating "gods" or "familiars" to do my plotting. Another said I may be doing something akin to Multiple Personality Syndrome, except for the express purpose of writing stories instead of protection.
I don't know what they are, but I their drive to tell the story is what matters most, and I think they do a good job of construction a story, and I'm doing a pretty decent job of reporting it. The tissue gag is EXACTLY what I've seen in my head since 1996. Episode 51 of AWFW is not. So it's hit or miss.
I just wonder if I could pull off a comic version of those quick slow motion dissolves.
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