So, I was first to the plate, there were options to bring in your own characters, or use from the extensive stock list of characters provided with their flavor dialogue, a sentence or two explaining them. If you read up through all my WIP for the hotel, you get most of a storyline that has not yet made it to the Hotel. In fact, it's pretty far out, and this is pretty embryonic. But if you want to know some things that get referred to constantly in other stories (the hotel lobby getting turned into a warzone, the sanctum getting trashed, the third of the twins getting killed, etc. Read through all the Hotel WIPS on my Substack, they provide a skeleton key to so many oblique references in the stories we have published on the official stack.)
I just happened to have two Russians lying around from a novel I decided never to write. The White Rabbit is from the same novel, as is the upcoming Saint James, but he's something else entirely.
I’m fascinated by the whole project. It reminds me of something - not the concept, not the characters, nothing like that, but - ah, got it!
The feel I’ve already been getting - the multiple authors, the threads running through, the being pulled in different directions - reminds me of how I felt when first reading The Mabinogion. This is a collection of Welsh prose stories from the 12th - 13th centuries, which were pulled together from stories of a much earlier oral tradition.
I'll take this compliment and run with it, but really it was ran more closely to a radio serial or a newspaper serial while we were working that month in cohesion. I'd stack the next week's stories, edit them, send them for rewrites, get them back, check them over, and schedule them. It was very hectic. The Sunday news posts alone (which I always included a vignette with) sometimes kept me up so late my fiancee got rightfully angry at me over it. Think of it as a digital bullpen, and instead of putting out a newsspaper, you're putting out stories, or like a television show with multiple plots or stories all running at once, with one writer working on each thread of plot. There is a series bible, both in my head and an actual document, it is massive.
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Fascinating to read the WIP afterwards. Nice little nuggets buried for future reference.
So, I was first to the plate, there were options to bring in your own characters, or use from the extensive stock list of characters provided with their flavor dialogue, a sentence or two explaining them. If you read up through all my WIP for the hotel, you get most of a storyline that has not yet made it to the Hotel. In fact, it's pretty far out, and this is pretty embryonic. But if you want to know some things that get referred to constantly in other stories (the hotel lobby getting turned into a warzone, the sanctum getting trashed, the third of the twins getting killed, etc. Read through all the Hotel WIPS on my Substack, they provide a skeleton key to so many oblique references in the stories we have published on the official stack.)
I just happened to have two Russians lying around from a novel I decided never to write. The White Rabbit is from the same novel, as is the upcoming Saint James, but he's something else entirely.
I guess I need to dig in a bit further to get that sense of it. Either way, a huge amount of work. And you’re jumping back into it. Wow.
like, if you check the stack, I think the WIPs go up to five?
I’m fascinated by the whole project. It reminds me of something - not the concept, not the characters, nothing like that, but - ah, got it!
The feel I’ve already been getting - the multiple authors, the threads running through, the being pulled in different directions - reminds me of how I felt when first reading The Mabinogion. This is a collection of Welsh prose stories from the 12th - 13th centuries, which were pulled together from stories of a much earlier oral tradition.
I'll take this compliment and run with it, but really it was ran more closely to a radio serial or a newspaper serial while we were working that month in cohesion. I'd stack the next week's stories, edit them, send them for rewrites, get them back, check them over, and schedule them. It was very hectic. The Sunday news posts alone (which I always included a vignette with) sometimes kept me up so late my fiancee got rightfully angry at me over it. Think of it as a digital bullpen, and instead of putting out a newsspaper, you're putting out stories, or like a television show with multiple plots or stories all running at once, with one writer working on each thread of plot. There is a series bible, both in my head and an actual document, it is massive.
the phrase viscera of the hotel says it all.