What with being and adult with and adult life and all, this poor little blog has been neglected, except during NaNo time. This year, I also find myself in an interesting position: I'm a little bit cheating. Yes, yes, I know that NaNo is supposed to be written completely from scratch, but:
A) I have this habit of "half-finishing" things that lie untouched for eons; and sooner or later I have to finish them and,
B) Last year my life was so crazed I didn't even do a NaNo--or rather, I did, but I never posted about it.
Back in college, I overheard an interesting conversation between three friends of mine: one was a political science major; one a history major; the third was--well, he was someone with interesting ideas. PolySci was writing a paper about government officials and power (I forget exactly what) and she was asking History for advice on the paper--and Interesting Idea and I were eavesdropping. The gist of the conversation went something like this:
Hist: It’s kind of terrifying, the lengths officials--or anybody really--will go to assert their power.
PolySci: You know, if someone really wanted to takeover the US right now, they’d start
with technology and social media. You take that over and everybody’s in trouble.
Interesting Idea: OR they could get rid of technology altogether--put it inside people;
because you can’t hack human beings as easily as you can hack into
technology.
PolySci: Can they can do that?
History: What if they could?
Interesting Idea: Then the world as we know it would come to an end.
Me: That’s creepy.
Me: (That’s an interesting idea!)
Me: (That’s a VERY interesting idea)
Me: puts idea in back of head, then plays with it off and on for the next five years
Me(flashforward to 2016): Finally puts idea on paper and submits it to short play festival
Here's the REALLY interesting part--it JUST KEPT GOING!!!! I could not get the story out of my head! By the time the short version had premiered, my "long version" was just over ninety pages--granted, they were rough pages, but still!
That is what I will be sharing with you this time around--I can honestly say it's one of the most interesting pieces I've ever written(see conversation above). And because this is what I do every time I have a new project, y'all get to see the character sketches and tidbits that went into this thing.
The project for NaNoWriMo 2017:
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