Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Introduction: Loading the Cylinder
This, unlike my other online stories, is not a single story, but rather a collection of several short-short stories. I've decided to scrap the original idea of only keeping six stories posted, and instead I'm going to post anything too short to have it's own blog.
The current layout of the Six Shooter is as follows:
1. The Most Recent Part of a Very Long Story
A story about a character I've left nearly untouched for the past two years, Erik Armstrong. "The Most Recent Part," picks up about two years after the previous story, "Under the Gadar," left off, as well as incorporating some material from an unfinished (and never disclosed) longer Armstrong story called "Halfway to Hell." While this story is part of a continuity, it should stand up reasonably well on its own. Anyone who's read my first story, "Adventures in Real Life," will probably notice that Erik Armstrong shares a noticeable amount of character development with Saint Mark.
2. A Sunday Afternoon in the World of Tomorrow
A "vacuum" story, which is part of no continuity and has no connections to anything else I've written. It's a bit preachy, but I like how it turned out.
3. Good VS Evil
I said I was going to leave Darrus with his trilogy. I lied. Any more on this story will spoil it.
4. Bestiary Electronica
This story was written for my Writing Fiction course, but was considered to be too deep in a genre for submission.
5. The Philanthropist
This is the piece that was submitted to my Writing Fiction course after Bestiary was turned down.
6. Storm Song
I was very depressed one afternoon, so I came back to my room. I was listening to "Rain Song" by Cold on the way back, and started putting images to some of the lyrics. By the time I got back to my room, I sat down and wrote this in one sitting. It all came out naturally, as if I'd unearthed it rather than creating it. "Storm Song" is considerably different from my usual style in that it isn't plot driven and is much more poignant than what I usually produce. I hope you enjoy the change of pace.
The current layout of the Six Shooter is as follows:
1. The Most Recent Part of a Very Long Story
A story about a character I've left nearly untouched for the past two years, Erik Armstrong. "The Most Recent Part," picks up about two years after the previous story, "Under the Gadar," left off, as well as incorporating some material from an unfinished (and never disclosed) longer Armstrong story called "Halfway to Hell." While this story is part of a continuity, it should stand up reasonably well on its own. Anyone who's read my first story, "Adventures in Real Life," will probably notice that Erik Armstrong shares a noticeable amount of character development with Saint Mark.
2. A Sunday Afternoon in the World of Tomorrow
A "vacuum" story, which is part of no continuity and has no connections to anything else I've written. It's a bit preachy, but I like how it turned out.
3. Good VS Evil
I said I was going to leave Darrus with his trilogy. I lied. Any more on this story will spoil it.
4. Bestiary Electronica
This story was written for my Writing Fiction course, but was considered to be too deep in a genre for submission.
5. The Philanthropist
This is the piece that was submitted to my Writing Fiction course after Bestiary was turned down.
6. Storm Song
I was very depressed one afternoon, so I came back to my room. I was listening to "Rain Song" by Cold on the way back, and started putting images to some of the lyrics. By the time I got back to my room, I sat down and wrote this in one sitting. It all came out naturally, as if I'd unearthed it rather than creating it. "Storm Song" is considerably different from my usual style in that it isn't plot driven and is much more poignant than what I usually produce. I hope you enjoy the change of pace.
# posted by Andrew Michael @ 9:39 AM 
