Beginnings

For quite a while i have been wanting to write a story. A friend and i sketched out a few characters and were pleasantly surprised with the result. The next natural progression was to place these characters in some sort of environment that would be conducive to developing a story. It was here that the progression of the story stalled.

We put together a simple story, something with a simple moral and pieces of artwork that would have been suitable for a children's book, but as we developed the environment and the characters inside this framework of a story, it quickly became evident that the writing style and character traits we were creating were not in keeping with the maturity range that we wanted to cater to.

We brainstormed. Would we stick with the story that we had already outlined and dumb down the text and do away these other thing that were, frankly, pretty cool? Or would we scrap our outline, add layers to our characters, and put them into a story that was much more complicated than what we had been working on? A few hours of caffeine binging found us agreeing on the latter. We would need a new story.

We have put together the rudiments of what we believe can be a good story, though there are many holes in our plot and each week brings a new dynamic to try, the plot development is beginning to come together.

Jordan and i are both college students in our final semester of school, this is both a blessing and a curse, as we study things central to our independent interests we are exposed to new, exciting technologies and techniques, but these studies take an enormous amount of time to explore and participate in. As we went on with the other demanding facets of our lives, namely our classwork, we began to relate our other interests with our story. This created new questions: Was there a way to implement music? Could we make this accessible in a more modern venue?

After some research we have found that the Kindle would probably be the best medium to tell our story with. The Kindle can display images, text, as well as allow the reader to listen to music while reading.

The purpose of this blog is to pull together all of the materials we have been working with and on, and assemble them here in a more coherent bundle. In later posts i will try to create and experiment with different combinations of the things we have and will create.