So, I had a brilliant idea for a story I started writing back in september, which I haven’t posted here yet because right now there’s not much to it. When I first started writing it, I wanted to do something really different, and after reading a bit of Lockpick Pornography (warning: contains phone sex within first couple of paragraphs, who knows what the rest is like) by Joey Comeau (of A Softer World fame), I realized that there is probably nothing weird I can write to get to people.

        Solution? Write it differently. In my head, I had a lot of backstory for the characters I was writing, but a story riddled with flashbacks becomes tough to read after a while. Switching points of view and time and etc. are hard even for good writers, and with no clear idea how to handle that, I was just going to use it as a guide to write the present stuff.

        Doing nothing in sociology class seems like fertile ground for whatever part of the brain makes stories happen, because this is the second time this week. I don’t remember the train of thought, but I started thinking I could go back to the story I started in september where a guy goes crazy and kills his girlfriend. In my head, I had an idea for how they met and how their relationship got to where it was, but I never had that in the story. I figured I could add a prologue to show how they met, and maybe a little bit of their relationship later.

        So, alright, we’ve got a prologue to establish the relationship between the first pair of victim and killer. Why not do it for all of them? Prologue I, Chapter 1, Prologue II, Chapter 2, etc. Might slow down later on, when everybody’s made their entrance. Maybe I could do flashbacks to antagonist stuff there, which is probably the best word because I don’t want to have “villains” or “bad guys,” just guys who are trying to stop the other dudes.

        Then I thought about the relationship between the pairs. There’d be some hint in the chapters, but I could do another little scene showing their connection to eachother, and maybe hinting at why this is all happening in the first place. The only thing is that might be a bit much, so I dunno. Prologue I, Chapter 1, Intermission i, Prologue II, Chapter 2, Intermission ii…

        I had another idea, but I totally forgot. I will probably add those prologues, but the intermissions are questionable. The idea only stretches so far before it gets annoying. It’s one thing to number your chapters only with prime numbers, and another to have three (or more if I can think of other reasons) types of chapters. It would help me write smaller ideas more often while I’m inspired, and it could go online instead of being published and looking totally out of place… That and keep me from getting in over my head by trying to imitate writing styles infinitely better than my own.

        Good thing I started studying early and could probably write while I’m at work!