Dateline 9-6-2017

I am getting so close to finishing Phase IV of my SNL Prep-Work Plan. I just have five seasons to go until I'll be at a point where I have a page for every single episode complete with a rough layout and sketch list for the night. Five seasons really doesn't seem like much but keep in mind there are at least twenty episodes to every year meaning when all is said and done I have at least one hundred more pages to go with over seven hundred and fifty pages already complete.

As soon as I do pull this off, I plan to take a couple days off before revisiting my first novel to get it to the point where it may not be locked in a finished state but will be up to a quality that I would consider a shareable draft. I am so excited to get to work on this because it's been over a year since I've worked on any fictional content with a strong narrative being that this blog has been my writing outlet ever since I officially gave up on my screenwriting dream.

Sometimes, at night, as I lie in bed fantasizing about my dream writing cabin, I get to thinking about writers as Gods. I know it sounds extremely narcissistic but good or bad every author has complete control over their fictional world, making the connection undeniable even if there is a more humble way of putting it.

In my world, I have a little solar system filled with several planets where characters can bounce back and forth between planets, unaware that they are actually the same characters in different skins living on slightly different worlds. This is due to the fact that as I assume most writers do, each character is an amalgamation of people I know in the real world and not that they are literally bouncing back and forth between different planets making it more of a parallel universe situation than an actual collection of planets.

As I ramp up to this rewrite, I've been making many mini changes and brainstorming ideas but it's too early to commit to anything. I've been through this preparation process many times but this was the first time that my efforts triggered yet another connection between my writing process and what is going on in the real world.

First, there is the whole "God is dead" connection when my work sits in a drawer waiting for a rewrite while the more faithful characters believe in my promise of a second coming as I keep creating different worlds instead of working on a second draft. This is actually an old connection from when I was very young and figured out that I turned to writing as a result of having absolutely zero control over the real world. Writing allowed me to not only have the power to get what I want but more importantly, it allowed me to have definitive answers for the failures in my fictional worlds.

The new insight stems more from the quick notes and prep-work where I am throwing around a bunch of ideas without fully committing to anything. This kind of reminds me of what's going on in the real world at this time where every week... make that every day, there seems to be a new life threatening conflict that just magically disappears and is never mentioned again after a couple of weeks or, in some cases, by the end of the day.

I don't even know if it was last week or the week before but it was starting to feel like our country was being overrun by Nazis but now it's North Korea that's our biggest fear which I'm sure will lead to more Russian fears if you just wait for a couple of days.

Though momentum for these events may continue to build while not in the spotlight, this adds to my feeling of connection between the real world and my rewrite process where I will continually add and delete new ideas before committing to the direction that I want to go.

This leads me to fear an upcoming event as whoever or whatever is in control of our storyline finally locks onto an idea and running with it. That's not to say that I believe this is coming from a high power but there are definitely people trying to control the world narrative and at this point, it feels like they are testing the waters before committing on which way they want the story to go.

But again, all of this is coming from a man whose head is stuck in concepts and stories who fully believes that there is more going on behind the scenes of every world event than the average citizen will ever be allowed to know.

This is just a thought that came to me while walking to the store so I thought that I would share it instead of telling the tale of my eventless life of either writing in my living space (AKA garage) or watching prime time reality shows in the living room with my mom while I continue to rebuild my life. 

With that, it's now time to get to work in order get today's review out of the way and finish off as much as I can with Phase IV of my SNL Prep-Work Plan to finally give the fictional characters of my made up worlds another visit.

As always, talk to you tomorrow with another update.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker