My
method for writing keeps getting weirder. I usually outline with a
lot of notes in brackets. Then I write and deleted the notes as I go
along. It can get get complicated, as it has with Zyx, Or; Bring Me
the Brain of Victor Theremin.
The file has notes all over the place, making it look like a chaotic
mess. Here's some from the front to give you an idea of how my mind
works when I write:
[VICTOR:
“Losers
always think the world is coming to an end.”
“Didn’t you used to be a world champion loser?”
He laughed, took a sip of beer.
“They beat me into thinking that for a while, but then I realize they were full of shit.”
“Look out, you’re going Zen master on me.”
“Grouchoid Zen.”]
[for
the IAMS chatroom scenes: make it a zoom type thing, only have a note
explaining that special scrambling software has been used to obscure
faces, add visual stuff . . .]
[diamond
nanothreads:
[maybe work in reference to Michael Muhammad Knight]
[nanolattices
- stronger than a diamond
[for the ayahuasca retreat scene the guru give them the drug, then locks them into a dark room, but first he lights a long string of firecrackers, and throws it in, locks the door, then gets into a waiting car, and drives off with his nonbinary lover - also he is an AI - also have followups where the CEO and his wife endorse the meditation - and similar retreat is held at MegaloCon]
[Early morning brainstorm - Petra sees things in the wastes: cattle, llamas & alpacas, a burned zyx billboard graffitied HAYDUKE LIVES! - IAMS ufo drones doing a tribute to ed abbey - drones are from a renegade AI trying to hide what’s really going on . . .]
[moved
a lot of the shit from up front, now need to do a go-thru of the main
text, filling in the gaps, dealing with the inserted notes . . .]
[work
in the idea of a dream of an alternate universe where cocaine is
legal and tobacco is the forbidden drug - Charlie Carlos . . . no,
better yet make it El Mess!]
[Concepcion,
Lopez, other ancillary latinx gals, tend to be short, slightly plump
brown girls that Victor had noticed seem to be talking over the world
- Dona Juana is an older version, maybe have others behind computers
at MegaloCon, taking care of business . . .]
[AND
at one point, one of these girls unzips her face revealing her to be
a reptile-insectoid-mechanoid]
[thinking
of just making them insectomechanoids - there too much bullshit ufo
stuff about reptiloid aliens . . .]
[THEN
an reptile insectoid-mechanoid unzips its face and reveals it be one
of the brown girls]
[Need scenes about his no longer needing glasses, la Catrina, feeling something is strange, but just thinking it’s part of the general sci-fi-ization of things . . . hmm . . .]
[the
Megatrex/Zappi conflict is becoming a Cold War-like conflict,
complete with nuclear weapons, contrast with the President wanting to
use nukes against the monsters . . .need
to mention that the AIs are making Victor’s books available - have
people reading e and print on demand editions, maybe have them in
above news broadcasts . . .]
[Hmm
- since this is going to be another royal bitch to sell, think about
pulling out sections/sequences that could be peddled as short
stories, novelettes, or novellas . . .]
[military
helicopters would be Apaches - maybe a John and Bob joke there]
[when
is The Singularity 1st mentioned? Should it be sooner? P. 16 - hmm .
. .]
[maybe
mention the Sing earlier, perhaps combined with the abduction
flashback]
[Bob
has the cowboy hat. John has the braids. Put this note at the
beginning]
[early,
maybe in “just what is it” bit of dialog]
[“Zyx
. . . rhymes with sex.” Could be a good ad line for the novel, also
maybe introduce it in the novel as part of Zapoid ad campaign]
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