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March 17, 2008
lsgl - stopping at 171 pages
by sven at 1:30 pm
I've finally found a way to tell Act II of Let Sleeping Gods Lie that I think I can live with. Basically, I want to make a visual reference to the Tower of Babel and then do two tableaus: "before" and "after." ...But with pterodactyls.
This approach won't require too much time spent fabricating new elements... It's a good, terse bridge between acts I and III... It's visually distinct... I think there's a lot going for this solution.
And boy am I ready to quit doing story development through writing for awhile! So far in 2008, I've written 171.5 pages of brainstorming -- 91,884 words. For comparison: Lovecraft's original novella, At The Mountains Of Madness, is only 41,284 words long. So in trying to adapt his story, I've gone and written a body of text 2.23 times as long as the original. Madness indeed!
Here are my most recent 53.5 pages of exploration:
- March 6 - 12 pages
- March 7 - 5 pages
- March 11 - 10 pages
- March 12 - 15 pages
- March 13 - 7 pages
- March 14 - 4.5 pages
When I get back from my brother's wedding, then I'm on to fabrication!
posted by sven | March 17, 2008 1:30 PM | comments (1) | categories: let sleeping gods lie
Comments
holy cow! it took me a long time to get through this, but some of the visual ideas are really interesting, especially "how the elders eat," the shoggoth pipe & tank systems, the pulp sci fi book cover, the multi-lobed effects of body shifting, the tunnel book effect, the sorcerer's apprentice rewrite, and "conversation between a human and an elder" section. i also liked that one of the transitions was "freeze into ice," which seems like a perfect segue into the antarctic cave.
but it strikes me the elders wake up not because the humans are there, but because the shoggoths are there. so seeing the shoggoths coming (again) at the end of act 2 is what causes them to panic: either they actually see them slip inside the dreamspace, or they see that the shoggoths now know where they are.
Posted by: gl. at March 31, 2008 2:36 PM