Special Forces

Special Forces is up, a side story about James taking Dre home after she has met up with Dean and the old gang at a mini golf park. These side stories are probably sticky with spoilage, but they're working in a couple of ways. First, writing with substance takes practice ... yesterday had about 700 words, this one is about 1200. I wouldn't say Livingston was short as much as I'd say that I've thought more about the characters and how they feel. I'm employing what I call a tight third person perspective, which is a fancy english major way of saying that I cheat and occasionally tighten the focus of the narrative enough to one character that it almost sounds like first person for a while. Special Forces has a slice more meat to it because we get a little more into the heads of the characters on stage.

I'm having a bit of technical quandry though. I like this idea of publishing to webcosa for viewing, but apparently you can't have a whole novel available online without, like, essentially foregoing all possibility of publication. Don't get me wrong - I don't think Greenscape would ever see a publisher, but I wouldn't mind entertaining the possibility. So I want to make a viewer tool in PHP with some kind of access control.

Anyway - that spoilage. Probably can't be helped. I'm picking these side stories specifically as key points of the story to help flush them out without actually writing those points. All I can say is - Greenscape isn't about the plot, it's about the characters. I will try to keep something ambigious, but if you read the side stories up until Nov 1, you'll probably now a lot what's going to happen in the novel itself.

Assuming, of course, it gets written and finished...