So, it's just hit me that I
started this blog to talk about the books that I'm writing! you know show the
world and all that crap, get people interested (not that I ever really believed
that people would be—but hey, it's my friggin' blog I can post what I want, and
this is what I wanted to do with it) but I have been slacking, in all ways,
mostly because I'm been slacking in writing lately.
Anyway, I started this new
series, mostly because I’m be reading ‘One Piece’ and things that I get overly obsessed
with turn themselves into books for me (I’ve never been all that original). Anyway,
because of ONE PIECE my mind started, and what came from it was this.....
Behind the sense of
The Wrath of Underwood
Okay,
so this is what I do from the very start of creating a novel/series. It’s the
thing I think about and when I do it. It’s all the problems I face and
everything in between. All this will be done when I write this and no other
time, so you will be able to see the gaps that I have when writing a book, and
just the way things go. this is so you can see what I do and how
I work when it comes to a novel
1.
(Dec
2012) This book (series) was created by me because I started
reading the graphic novels ONE PIECE and his quote at the start of vol 1
I’ve been gathering and
reading a bunch of reference materials to do this “pirate story.” However, the
pirates that I admired so much in my youth hardly ever left written records of
their history. I guess they were just too busy having fun with their own
adventures and they forgot to leave their stories for future generations.
That’s just the trouble with those damned pirates.
—Eiichiro Oda, 1997
Made
me smile so much, it also got my mind thinking and thinking, working around the
in’s and out, figuring if I would be able to do it? How I would start it? Where
it will be set?—still a lot of them haven’t been thought out, but it’s where
things got on the roll.
2.
Then it came to what I was going to
make it. But that was easy, it wanting to be nothing more than a series—which
went to the whole. Do I start at the beginning or the end? But that something
that will flow in the first couple of pages and all rather than me figuring it
out before hand. Or I will, and... Yeah, the way I write is off with the
fairies. So who the hell knows?
But
having it be a series, I had to push one off (because that the moment I’m not
creating any more full blown series—novella ones, yeah, but series no! And so
that got me thinking about that...
~By the
way, my thinking isn’t really me sitting and thinking. it’s more about the idea
growing in my head until it gets to this
point. Where I actually do something with it~
So
I decided that I would use one I have already had—or maybe it was that it just
went there, that in my brain I couldn’t think up a good enough reason for the
series in question to be there, and well, it’s a cool name for a series that
hasn’t gotten further in my mind then one books and so it was shafted to a
single novel and this series took its place. But I didn’t seem to like that
much either. There was something that just wasn’t working and really every time
I went to write the series name—like when I was changing it a little, wording
it different, it just didn’t want to stay. And so it went from being Wraths of
the Underworld to.... drum roll please.... the
Wrath of Underwood!
3.
Then there was the setting of the
book.... actually this might have happened before number 2, but I’m not real
sure. I wrote down the series, my
thoughts, and all that crap (which may change threw research and then again
when writing. I can have ideas but it’s really what comes comes, and to get
books I actually like, and others do, ones that don’t seemed scripted, I can’t
script myself I have to just write and then fix the mistakes when I go through
it second time round.
So,
here’s what I wrote there, just so you know the first of the first outlines to
my series, and really, it’s what happens throughout all my outlines. It’s how I
see if I like the series or not, if it sticks after I write it down—if it grows
into a teenager then adult in my mind after I have the details in a place where
I never have to think of them again...then it’s a keeper. And it’s then, only
then, that I actually give it its name, and it’s time in my life!
(Like
I said, I’m not sure if this stage came before the other, but really they kinda
work themselves out together.
NEW SERIES? ‘BOY BOOK’ (YA?)
Pirates
This idea has come.... yeah, look at
point 1. I’m doing this crap again.
I like the thing he said at the
beginning – point 1—about them not keeping records of their lives, not like
most everyone else does.
He wrote a comic—I want to write a journal
And that’s what I’m going to do. Though
in a normal third party book way. From the time he became a man (15) till—well,
whenever. I wouldn’t mind random pic’s throughout it but...
Yeah, just kid who wants honour and
about the actual pains and grief we
go threw
—I kinda want it to have a war thing
where the people are real and the battles, the kills harden you up but can
still cause you grief depending on who you killed!
~what I’ll need~
·
A
world! Either make up what the world is which means you would have to have
maps. Actually either way you’ll have to put in a map because if you use the
world you need to go backwards until you come to when the world was flat!
Viking shit!
·
Law
of the sea, pirates and all those even if the law isn’t a law. They have to
have honour amongst themselves. Unwritten rules learnt not gained.
·
The
people are crazy looking, big, strong, like Vikings only different. I want an
anima kinda feel to it, with a realistic twist that means it could have
actually been true. Lots of scars and lost limbs. That kinda shit.
·
To
learn about the sea. Boats, yatta, yatta. But to write about them...to be a
crew. The words a captain would use. Lingos of old. That sorta crap.
·
The
story
o Main or series story line.
o 1st book, if not 2nd
and 3rd, so that it flows into them nicely.
4.
It’s sad, but that’s it. it’s where I
am at in this moment, and where I will sit until I figure out when the hell I
want to write it—though I think it might become in the next 2yrs instead of one
of my other series, because this one is very
different from anything else I have going on, and I will be reading ONE PIECE
series weekly from this point on. So.... yeah.
5.
(5/Dec/11)
I’m thinking that I will only put a map of the sectors of the world that they
are in with the novel—though I still need an idea about the world I don’t have
to have it all fully set. It’s also has more of a new feel to it, if I get the
map when we about to head into it. I also need where there’s uncharted water,
and if were heading into it, then it’s a map of nothing but that.
I
also want this to be made up lands, though I will use the same old school maps
and want it in that time, I would really like it to be placed, but if I don’t
make it old school they don’t have to speak it. it’s the one problem that I
have when it comes to writing, I’m shit at my own language, and this day and
age mumbo jumbo, it’s hardly likely that I get ol’ school tones and lilting
right. So if I make up the place then it’s made up and the language doesn’t
have to matter as much.
Also,
I need to remember that in those days (like above, it’s still on a scale of old
school) they believed in sea monsters and all that. And I need to put them in
there—or more so I can put them in there. Dragons as well. If I want to put all
that shit out there. And even though we don’t see them they are still widely
acknowledged as being in the world.
6.
(7/Dec)[Re-wrote
first page, ship original to draft] so I’m going to do
this one the hard way. mostly because I really couldn’t be bothered with all
the research that’s going to have to come into this book, my biggest problem,
I’m finding at the moment, is that I don’t know where to put this book, and that’s
something that I really do have to work out.
Mostly
because you need somewhere to put your book, and I’m not saying in a genre,
hell, you work that crap out when it’s done, but it’s the age range that you
have to work with and then around. It’s
also, I think, the most important
point in your novel writing—who are you writing this book for?
Yeah,
yeah, I get the genre thing is important to, but if you think about it, your
genre is going to be pretty simple: romance, fantasy, si-fi, contemporary
fiction, non-fiction. That’s it really, yeah there’s other out there but if you
think about it they all pretty much fall into these categories (and if I’m
wrong sue me) with extras and I find that at the end of the day this point
doesn’t really matter because you’re going to write what you love, or where
your brain, you fingers want you to go, no matter how much you need to have it
all laid out before you actually start writing, you still only got a one way
mind when it comes to the novel you want to write. Yeah, this to can be tweaked
and twisted a bit, but at the end of the day your mind isn’t going to give up,
not if you know, deep down, that this is
the way you want to write it.
But
age range? This is something that can’t change and will sculpt the way you research,
the way you think and the way your novel is written.
Or
am I the only one?
Age
is the thing, people off different generation think different when one says
Pirate (I’m using this, because, well, this is what I’m thinking it one). back
in the old days, and I’m talking older than me, you idea of Pirates where
simple, what they were, gross looking sea dogs that were as tough as nails and
harder to sink, they plundered threw villages and killed all that got in there
way—hell, some that didn’t.
Nowadays.....?
I think pirates is something softer—and I don’t mean the way they look, or even
that they still don’t plunder the sea’s looking for money and killing whoever
whenever, but like vampires, werewolves, there something softer about them,
something more human and understandable. Which alternately is what my pirates
have to be like, simple because the other way doesn’t sell, no one wants to
read about the bad guy winning, right? And yet that’s kinda what it is all
about.
Mine,
is going to be about the underdog, which is what’s really important in this
day. The little guy winning against the big and badder. But this won’t mean
that he’s a good guy—not by a long shot.
And
with this in mind, where should this novel sit, what age range, because, as
I’ve said before, the context isn’t really going to change, but the language
will, the level of violence and the....wenches in toe, will be a lot different
if I write this for a young age group then a older one.
And
then that gets you thinking a little, if I go teens, which is kinda where this
will end, being that I for some reason can’t write for middle grade, so if I
write it for teens, should I just go with the flow and let the age range of my
novels rise with the age of the main kid, because this series of novels is
alternately going to be more a chronicle type thing of the kids life than
anything else.
What
to do what to do? Really I have no idea. Which way it should be? And mostly I
can just write it and see what happens and decide after, but then what if....
yeah, I’m stump.
7.
[page 3] Need to find out pirate wear.
Though I’m using today’s language and tone I want it to have a real feel when
it comes to what they were and at this moment I’m writing what the captain is
wearing and I’m getting a mix of captain hook and Jean-Claude from Anita Blake
vampire hunter. It’s lamn and all but that’s all I have for pirate clothing so
I need info on that more than anything else. Though navigating and reading a
map and all that other crap would be nice, clothing is a must have!
And
more so I have to figure out how I want my pirate to actually look. Will I be
going out there, or keeping them looking like real people would...??? This is
the hard on, cause if I go out there then I can make them look like anything
and I can also make up what the world looks like, the place and all that. But
saying this, if I do then I will have to make up all that crap....
Said
thing is I would probably do much better going with the making it all up. that
way I won’t have to care as much if I get anything wrong and the world could
be...well, cool!
8.
(23/Dec/11) [Just a thought] okay, so I may have had a thought on how
to get this into something much more interesting and not at all how I wanted
it, but the way I’m thinking will keep it from having to be spot on, it will
also let it stay younger for a little bit more....
I
was thinking of making them, uh, be something out of this world. But it’s only
a thought, I think if I create a ship that has like...a vampire whose there
navigator and a werewolf who... yeah, you see, a skeleton man who, you get my
point. And I know that it been done, but it may make my book much easier to
have people like it, and even more so, the ones that they fight. The
challengers they come across. That sorta crap.
But
this again, is coming from the fact that I haven’t decided what I want this to
be yet, isn’t it?
Um,
well, it’s a thought from a thought, nothing more than that. We’ll see what
comes from it.
9.
(28/12/11) a new beginning.... this takes what I’ve
written from one and a bit pages to 700 words or something. But it’s the way I
actually want it to begin rather than what I’ve written before.
This
is a series that needs lots of research in this series (I feel). The book needs
all!!
So,
being that I’m bad at research I feel I should write the storyline for the
first book out. Like I’m doing for the rest of then you should make it accrete.
So, putting in cloths and things about the
ship, the sea, that crap. So that I know where that shit should go.
Also it will help in what I need to be researching as well as what
I’m going to make the story. Really writing it out first will actually benefit
this story rather than the rest.
I’m
also thinking that my books are all, at least the ones from the first one, are
all about old folk tales. Either things on lands unknown or the sea. But this
one is still in the wind, mostly because it would mean that I would have to
research them. but maybe they will just come when I’m researching in the first
time. And if it does, then—walla—I will do it that way. If not, then something
else. but I like the idea of old school myths threw the lands.
10.
(2/1/12) I have a revelation....
[Story
line] they find Victory a sword because it’s said to be able to cut threw anything
it comes in contact with when wielded properly.
Tada!
The first book is looking got for it. They can also fight natives or something and
the end scene can be him picking it up in a rush as they hear a giant roar coming
closer.
I
also have the how’s and who’s of why he’s kidnapped and from who and what they want
from him... yeah, this book is coming along nicely, don’t you think?
so that's it, I guess--for the time beginging, anyway, I'll add the shit that needs added for you all to read and all that other crap that goes into my creating for this book, series, section (meaning the first 3 books, it's got to be a trilogy first, right?)
anyway, so this was writing by Bronwyn Heeley
Thanks
for the time
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