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June 11, 2006
GOINGS ONS
Been busy the last few days. After rereading the prologue yesterday, I decided that it didn't work written in third person. The rest of the book is in first person, and it's jarring going from third to first, especially so early in the book. My original intent was to have the prologue and epilogue bookend the story, and not just because they're at the beginning and the end. They were both going to be written in the third person, and be set 20 Years Ago and 20 Years Later, respectively. What makes it more interesting is the fact that nearly 1,000 years passes from page 1 to the very last. But as it stands now, I think the entire thing should be in the same tense. Since we had a spot of nice weather today, I took lappy out back and rewrote the prologue in short order. Rereading it again, the transition from prologue to chapter 1 is much better.
I also spent the last day or two tinkering with a layout for the Novelogue. I want something spartan and kinda catchy to the eye. This is what I have so far. Whadja think?
The weatherman predicts sunny and upper-seventies for the rest of the week. Even though my aunt's coming out to sat for the week, I hope to get a fair bit of writing accomplished. I'll probably be posting the prologue by the end of the week. I should also probably tell some people that this little sideblog exists, too.
JAB
Posted by Josh at June 11, 2006 7:00 PM
Comments
nifty design, I kind of like the all white theme (obviously) the high contrast type at the top works well, maybe you should do all of it in a type-wrtier font or something, or scan a wadded up piece of paper (maybe with a coffee ring) as a background for a subtle look, maintaining the starkness though.
Posted by: nick at June 12, 2006 1:35 PM
You know, I forgot all about your white theme. And here I thought I was only ripping off Warren Ellis.
I would do all of those things you just said, but I don’t know how to do it to make it look good.
JAB
Posted by: Josh Bales at June 12, 2006 8:54 PM
doing the background wouldn’t be that hard, I’m sure you know your fonts though, and whatever you end up with I’m sure it’ll look better than some other *cough name deleted, after all at least its not a dreamweaver template as some websites I’ve seen, not that much of a compliment, but whatever. I really like the idea of publishing a novel on the web though, sounds pretty awesome, between that and the new website thing it kinda makes me wanna work on the idea of the stranded site again.
Posted by: nick at June 13, 2006 7:39 PM