So, I have been experimenting on my own with changing this blog's layout. I was trying to make one that would show all of the playlist but, none of them seem to be able to so I will stick with this one for now. I think I will change the layout once a month to keep things interesting and so I can experiment. If I do find one that goes with the playlist gadget it will probably be pretty simple.
Some of the things I like about this layout is it has a bloglist so, I can see when my fellow Cobaltians (we had lunch with Joel today and we all agreed that is a word now) have updated.
One thing I have been forgetting to mention is that the final scene between Julianna and Sawyer when they are eating dinner, that scene was written to Bella's Lullaby, it just happened to be playing when I was imagining that scene.
This story is kind of hard for me to create because I often write retroactively, meaning I write a whole story and then I can go back and fit the tone of the story with the beginning, I can also add foreshadowing and chekov's guns. But with this I can't really do that because I do not know how or when this will end.
That is basically my warning to you about this story taking a different turn. I think my biggest fear is being told I am copying my dear friend and colleauge, Miss Leigh but I have to say when I started United Light (with no intention of making a web serial) I knew it was going to take a change from it's innocent beginning. Now, it won't be like as Miss Leigh puts it, "sex,drugs and rock n roll" but there will be more mature concepts.
I do have an overall theme for this serial, what I want it to be about and to show and that is what I always intended it to be about. I may reveal more about the theme but, it may ruin the possible angles the story could take.
I have to say I wish I could fully explain the process I take to write this series, I find myself quiet literally asking the characters things like what is your last name ? What kind of car do you drive ? and also what happens next. I am not a planner at all because you cannot plan life as it happens, although I suppose you can try.
I am however a reaseracher and it is funny how with this chapter things have come full circle in an ironic way. I will explain about this later because the instance I am talking about may not come about for a few chapters but, I really have no idea.
Like I was saying I'm a researcher I love to use real pictures or items to help me describe things. And it's tiny things like for the body scrub bottle or a dress or something, maybe it is because I have never been a visual persn.
That was me trying to describe my writing process for this project. When I write my books I use a completely different process.
