So as you may well know, I usually write Stryder's Dementia columns ahead of time in a little spiral notebook and then type them out on the day I want to post them. This week, however, I have nothing written for this blog. That's not to say that I haven't written this week! Actually, I have written so much I could probably fill 5 or 6 blog posts! See, all week I've been writing a character bible and backstory for my (incredibly slowly) ongoing creative project. You may remember THIS?
Well, I decided almost immediately that the story written there, although interesting, wasn't enough to write a lot about all by itself. Chapter 2 of that project started talking about a female lead, girlfriend character to the suicide solution dude (whose name, I don't know if I revealed, is Daniel.), a character named Carrie O'Connor.
Anyway, since then she's become the hero of the story, lost her association completely with Daniel, and instead become something totally different. Betraying my renewed love affair with comic books over the last 6 months...
Carrie O'Connor has a secret. An orphan girl who lives in a small apartment above her uncle's auto shop in East York, she's starting her first year at Ryerson University. For the most part she's a normal lower-middle class girl...except that for her 18th birthday she received a gift, a family heirloom from her mother, now dead 13 years. This gift was an antique puzzle box, carved from a type of wood Carrie had never seen. When she placed her hand upon a carved relief of a giant tree on the top of the puzzle box, it opened as if by magic. Did the box glow as if aflame for a moment, or was that only Carrie's imagination?
Inside the box were two matched antique six-shooters and a pendant, a single bullet attached to a silver chain....
Not to worry, Daniel's still involved in a pretty meaningful way, although he and Carrie haven't met as my story opens. This week I've actually been writing up all the supporting characters and a HUGE backstory that could almost be it's own novel regarding the origins of the puzzle box and guns.
Anyway I don't even know what I'm writing right now. Ideally I think I'd like a graphic novel format, a la The Watchmen or V for Vendetta, or even a series like the Scott Pilgrim books. Unfortunately I can't draw AT ALL. It takes me a week to draw something mediocre. So unless I can find a partner then this will either have to be a novel (I'll have to re-write the earlier part in 3rd person) or a screenplay or something. Maybe both. Obviously this is going to take YEARS....
Oh yeah, Carrie O'Connor also has another name. When she wears the pendant and picks up the guns, she's transformed into Bullet Girl!
Oh and don't worry...it's supposed to be a dumb name. Irony!
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