when you're doing CPR they tell you to hum the soundtrack to saturday night fever. staying alive. hilarious right. not quite accurate neither. my experience you want to push that 4/4 time signature up to 140 beats per minute range. imagine the violent femmes covering the bee gees. do it in the field for seven minutes is like doing nine hundred pushups. why mention that I don't know but I'm humming that track right now rushing it like green day on speed. which is surely an oxymoron. anyway. I'm calling this hole in the cloud the velvet howl the 401 family not a cult but a writer's colony in the ether. safe haven for artists of all salt and stripe. junkies drunks rehab psych ward survivors welcome. I'm still fucking about with settings trying to make the whole screen black for instance and how to turn off spellcheck and toggle fonts all that internal pay no mind to that asshole behind the curtain nut and bolt shit. so I expect to be doing compressions for a minute. first official post or one with more bells and sparkles tomorrow jan 7 depending on which corner of the flat circle you're camped on. until then. peace.
For anyone currently involved with, working on, or having to do with the 9 story Hotel project. We are in the process of migrating the bulk of the work and community surrounding the Hotel to Discord from The Locals, since the Locals is harder to navigate even than Discord, I would suggest you join up. The server is fully populated and set-up for work, talk, and collaboration.
This is the discord invite, it is good for the next seven days, after which I will probably post another one:
Let's see if I'm not as dumb as I think I am. This is the Google doc link for FRACTALS, the Delphine and Balthazar story.
Little iffy on the first section. I think it's good for characterization and to set up some of the relationships, but maybe it could be streamlined or brought into the main narrative. Feels slightly more like the opening of a novel than a story but I'll let others weigh in.
Hope y'all dig it!
EDIT: I was talking with another writer and wanted to clarify something I should've mentioned above. (Trying to avoid spoilers.) The ending of this is purposely ambiguous, in that another writer could pick up with the next story from another character's point of view, Delphine could achieve either of the possible goals (or none of them), or anything in between. And it's kind of subject to change based on what the next story is or what the overall project needs from these characters. TL;DR: If the ending doesn't quite land with the project from a 30k-foot view, no worries, we ...
Newest Althea story, AKA The Room With the Teeth
https://open.substack.com/pub/cjstockton/p/biting-down?r=1ck2p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
