%%USERNAME%%    %%ACCWORDS%% %%ONOFF%% |
 |  A hub for the "Book of Masks" universe. |
|
The Interactives "The Book of Masks"  : A high school student discovers a grimoire that can make magical disguises."The Wandering Stars" : Sequel to "The Book of Masks.""Student Bodies" : A high school student is turned into a blue goo that can possess people.For non-WdC Members "The Book of Masks: Archives" : Dodges the "Servers Busy" barrier!"The Book of Masks (Abridged)" : Introductory storylines for new readers.Community "BoM/TWS Message Forum" : Community for readers of the interactives."BoM/TWS/SB Wiki" : Notes and documentation for authors. Spoilers!Current Polls None The Latest 4/28: Interactive: "Questions With No Answers" 4/28: Public: "Question With No Answers"
|
| So, here are the revisions that I talked about yesterday: "Happy Birthday to the New You" (public) + "Happy Birthday to the New You" (interactive) and the chapters that follow. The big changes are in the linked chapter and the one immediately following, but there are some tweaks even unto all the sequels thereafter. Tomorrow I return with brand-new chapters of BoM, in that general area. The background: Will has been roped into the group of guys (the AV Club, basically) who wound up with the Libra. They have been using some cheerleading identities to improve his popularity and social standing, and he has joined them by adopting the identity of Jenny Ashton. But they are now interested in adopting a second set of spare identities and in using them for a new sociology experiment. What will that experiment be? Tune in to find out ... |
| I'll be back onto "Book of Masks" come Sunday—and I see that rugal has something new going as well—with a new BoM chapter, which I wrote yesterday. But tomorrow I'll anticipate things with a revision to some previously published chapters. I was reading the chapters that presage the storyline I'll be writing, and I decided to break one of them in half and expand it into two chapters. So I'll be posting that revision and republishing the sequel chapters. That will also help give readers a running start on the place I'll be resuming. I also wrote a "Spider-Man" treatment yesterday. I might be able to get one more treatment scribbled out before the month ends, for whatever that is worth, but I'm not going to publish any more until such time as I resume that project. |
| September is one of my designated months for writing BoM chapters, so if you're following me for those chapters—and I'm not sure why else you would be frequenting something called "The Book of Masks Homepage"—here's a reminder that I'll be back to doing that in a few days. I hope to hit the ground running with chapters that were commissioned from me. |
| So it's been awhile since I've checked in. Usually when I check out it means that I've been goofing off, but really, I have been working on my Spider-Man project. I just haven't had anything to report because it's been slow and rough. I've said it before, and recently: I am not an outliner by nature. For me, outlining is hard. Outlining is hellish. It was all I could do to outline 20-minute standalone episode ideas that used material from the actual animated series. But I didn't know what Outline Hell was until I hit the seven-episode arc I had planned for this alternate series, and it was an arc using mostly new material. My God, it has been like trench warfare, and it has taken me the equivalent of four or five days' work on each of those episode ideas to get them written, and in the middle of the work cycle I had to tear it all apart and rearrange episode ideas in order to get the plot to progress properly. And the rough stuff isn't over yet. I've got another three-part, mostly original episode idea looming before I finish the first season, and the second season includes another seven-episode arc, four episodes of which will be mostly new material. And that's just to get me to the point where I can start thinking about my own "Superior Spider-Man" idea. So there is no way that I'm going to meet my original goal of getting that written before the actual Superior Spider-Man arc debuts on Disney XD. Oh well. Still, I'm not giving up on it. I'm going to do what I can before August ends, then turn to BoM in September. After that we'll just have to see. In the meantime I had stopped publishing new episode treatments because I didn't want to run into the stuff I was working on. I can already tell that some of my written-but-unpublished treatments are going to have to be revised in light of changes to my plan for the rest of the season. That means I'm going to have to wait until I've written episode 25 (I'm currently finishing up episode 20) before I do those revisions and can start publishing again. But I have the impression that very few people are waiting with bated breath for my Spider-Man treatments. * A little housekeeping: The author of the most recent BoM chapter emailed me yesterday to request that I delete that chapter so he can revise and repost it. Done and done. |
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
Send Email
Community Newsfeed
General Discussion
Sponsored Items
Book of Trinkets
Static Items
Books
Groups
Interactive Stories
Audio
Campfire Creatives
Community Notes
Crossword Puzzles
Documents
Folders
Images
In & Outs
Madlibs
Photo Albums
Polls
Product Reviews
Quizzes
Survey Forms
Web Pages
Word Searches
