Strategy

As I have been writing my science fiction story "The Diegisis Series by Nik Alinaru", I have come at it in a way that wouldn't meet with approval by most writers.

I have been writing out segments that have interest for me, and then I am going back and writing in the in-between parts to build the entire story.

This actually harkens back to my English Comp 1 and 2 professor, one Betsy Griffin, who I so enjoyed as a professor, and who laid it on me one day that I shouldn't change my writing style. She wanted to know how I learned my particular way of writing, and my reply was that I simply write the way I speak. She replied that writers spend years developing that ability, which comes to me naturally.

And so as I have dreams, I write them into the blogs, and thus into the story. I am sure I am driving my readers nuts as my tale isn't linear, anything but.

And my dreams...I had one last night that I have not written in as yet. But it is a continuation of the opening thoughts the main character, one Larry Devaryo, has in the story. What was different about last night's dream was the feeling of terror was still there, but the aliens didn't show up this time. Highly unusual. I generally awake right around the time the aliens appear in the skies and I then see them in the dream all about the area. These dreams of attacking aliens really scare the hell out of me. I used to wake up in a sweat from the fear.

When I was in high school my room mate woke me one night, he and another school mate were drinking beers in our dorm room. A no-no. But apparently I had been talking in my sleep as he asked me, who's coming Chuck?

I asked him what he meant through sleepy eyes. He said you were talking in your sleep saying they're coming, they're coming.

My brothers used to tell me they held long conversations with me when I was asleep.

I can't say what any of it means, but hopefully writing all of this out will help.

Additionally I have decided to start adding graphics to the story. I am going to use Norman Rockwell's method, which is kind of a cheat, and actually means I will be doing things backwards to achieve the results I am looking for, for the time being. Maybe down the road I can improve on this approach. I do this because my freehand sketches aren't, imho, very good.

The Norman Rockwell approach is to stage the moment, photograph it, then project the photo, and then draw and sketch and paint in the image from the projection.

I won't have the luxury of a Saturday Evening Post paycheck, and so no models other than those I ask who are willing, will be in any of my illustrations.

Oh yes, something to add to the above, I will also be going back and removing the bulk of the blogs of this story. As I turn them into graphic novellas. The idea being to then post a link to either a kindle version, or the graphic illustrated "comic book" version, which I will load someplace like Blurb, except Google (Blurb) already has my business, and I believe I'd like to take the graphic novels somewhere else, like lulu dot com, for publication.

And continuing in that same thinking, what Dr. Bernard and Empire State refers to as depth and breadth, I will record MP3s of the story, and then CDs for sale, and then a board game, and then continue, hopefully, building out this story more and more.

Here is a link to some sites one can do all of this with:
http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/sell-products-online/

Having posted all of that I want to add an interesting post I found the other day about the best way to make money and have to mention then that all of us apparently are being duped:
What is the best way to make money?

Wish me luck,

-Charles