Reflections on story 0.52 alpha

I wrote Story 0.52 Alpha in three parts. The first two parts I really like. It does what I want it to do and I think it flows well. When I put it up, I had to write an ending. I don't like the ending I wrote. It went too geek for what I was aiming at. I decided to go on the ubergeek track and it doesn't mesh with the rest of the work at all.

I will have to give that a second look. I might also extend the story a bit. The piece didn't end up like I wanted, so I will have to fix it.

Story 0.52 alpha

It was a dark and stormy afternoon; or so they say. I didn't believe them and I wasn't paying attention. They never identified themselves, so really, what credibility do they have? For that matter, what credibility do I have? You already know I made a statement based on unreliable witnesses and a confessed lack of attention on my part. But perhaps that's the reason. I admitted my fault. There is a little credibility to be had from that.

Well, it was afternoon and the weather doesn't really play into our story so I'll continue, if I may. I sat at the comput to type. I was going to type. Yup, that's what I was going to do. I was going to type. I was going to write a story. Yup, type a story up on the computer. That was the goal. The goal... Well, not quite a goal, as I didn't have a deadline, but that was my purpose. It's good to have a purpose. It's better to have a story.

Searching for a story in my head I had to ask myself why I was writing. Good question. Should I write about that? No, no... I was going to write a story, not a diary. Story... story, story... I guess I was writing to exercise my creativity. I wanted to write a story to prove to myself I still could. I hadn't written a piece of fiction like this since my resume... uhh... since college.

My eventual goal is to write a screenplay. Actually, I have a few story ideas but nothing too solid. I have three story lines in my head. One is more a piece of fan fiction. The other two are a bit more original. At this moment, I don't want to write those. It's not their time.

I actually write all the time, but usually I'm writing code. I'm a programmer, and that's what they do so I like to fit in. Problem is code doesn't tell a good story. It's mostly a lot of repetition and choices and repetition and is quite hard on the reader. There is only so much emotion you can get out of { } ( ) ; . And what would a code story look like?

There once was a variable named instance. instance was a very lonely variable as it was utilized to implement the singleton pattern.
   @see getInstance
   @ref Design Patterns

See? You need to be a programmer to even understand that, and the humor is lost on most programmers because it isn't written in binary. I want this to be human readable (as opposed to programmer readable?) and since the true geek programmer of today would insist on using a unicode representation of the characters, the binary version would certainly cause bandwith issues.

So here I am, still desireing to write a story. I'm not there yet. I'll have to try again soon or else the appeal of writing jokes in binary might overcome me, even using unicode...

I should write something

I really should sit down and write something. With my 3 year old asking for chocloate as a compromise since I refused him the coffee he was demanding a moment aago, it is a little hard to concentrate. Oh, and on top of this all my wife is attempting to engage me in conversation about possible vacation plans for the fall. So, what was I thinking again?

Writing. Yes. That is the essential problem of the moment. I don't have a script and I need to write one.

To get my creative juices flowing, I will try to write some short topics first. I want to focus on story instead of form. I know I'll have to write differently when I am writing a script, but I think in terms of story more than form. For this reason, I will write short form fiction first.

But not tonight.

I wanna make a movie!

I have long been interested in makeing movies and animation and have come to a point in my life where I think it should be possible. So now, what's the problem?

I don't know what to make a movie about.

No kidding! Truely, I have no idea what to make. I have some ideas, but they are too much for a first movie. I've done some things in my video class and such, but I really need a nice short subject to work on.

So, I'm blogging now. With luck, I'll be a little consistent and at least write once a week here to work on it. Maybe I'll get the idea I need, or maybe I'll just have some fun writing. Hopefully, someone will read this at some point. Who knows.

Anyway, I hope any who do read enjoy. For me, at least I'll have a record of my attempt.