More ideas!
This is not fair. Here I am, poised on the very edge of beginning my sparkling new Annales East-Englum cycle, and more ideas are begging for my attention.
Perhaps I wouldn't mind so much if I knew I could make anything of the ideas. But, in this case, I'm suddenly being tempted again to work on a Cold Witness sequel. Project White Light was fun to do, even though I never finished it; however, it would have taken too much work to get publishable. I wasn't prepared to give it the attention it needed to fix its crippling flaws.
But ... there is a core of golden material there that I really like. The Orfordness scenario--both in real life and in my fictional adaptations--enthralls me. PCW is the kind of book that could suffer a sequel, and I honestly think that I could make a book every bit as good as the original.
But huge swathes of the plot would have to be annihilated, and replaced with something I am more authoritative in talking about. Forget having Christina being kidnapped from her research lab in Boston, Mass. by MIBs. Just cut straight to the core of the matter: Project Hooded Falcon, an idea which is not only interesting enough to make a good plot, but would also make a pretty cool title.
The idea is a relatively simple one, and was actually brought up in PCW (whose plot is, if you don't know, based on the idea of "psychotronic weapons" being used to alter perception of reality in the human brain). What happens if you take an ordinary stealth aircraft, then stick a psychotronic emitter on board? Answer: depending on the frequency band in use, you can make the aircraft look just like a UFO. And you can zap people with it, too.
(Actually, this isn't entirely fictional. One line of thought surrounding the Rendlesham UFO incident claims that the USAF were testing a psychotronic plane at the time.)
So ... I like the idea, but I can't see where I'll find the time to develop it further. Maybe I'll keep it in Cold Storage whilst I work on ETF and the other Annales ... then bring the idea out if I need some leverage when trying to sell Cold Witness
(Ugh. This post is actually quite scatter-brained, isn't it? Forgive me--just thinking out loud. Part of the reason I set up this blog in the first place was so I could talk to myself. I can throw stuff at this wall and see what sticks. But, as always, Project Hooded Falcon will have to pass the test of time before I can start working on it.)
This is not fair. Here I am, poised on the very edge of beginning my sparkling new Annales East-Englum cycle, and more ideas are begging for my attention.
Perhaps I wouldn't mind so much if I knew I could make anything of the ideas. But, in this case, I'm suddenly being tempted again to work on a Cold Witness sequel. Project White Light was fun to do, even though I never finished it; however, it would have taken too much work to get publishable. I wasn't prepared to give it the attention it needed to fix its crippling flaws.
But ... there is a core of golden material there that I really like. The Orfordness scenario--both in real life and in my fictional adaptations--enthralls me. PCW is the kind of book that could suffer a sequel, and I honestly think that I could make a book every bit as good as the original.
But huge swathes of the plot would have to be annihilated, and replaced with something I am more authoritative in talking about. Forget having Christina being kidnapped from her research lab in Boston, Mass. by MIBs. Just cut straight to the core of the matter: Project Hooded Falcon, an idea which is not only interesting enough to make a good plot, but would also make a pretty cool title.
The idea is a relatively simple one, and was actually brought up in PCW (whose plot is, if you don't know, based on the idea of "psychotronic weapons" being used to alter perception of reality in the human brain). What happens if you take an ordinary stealth aircraft, then stick a psychotronic emitter on board? Answer: depending on the frequency band in use, you can make the aircraft look just like a UFO. And you can zap people with it, too.
(Actually, this isn't entirely fictional. One line of thought surrounding the Rendlesham UFO incident claims that the USAF were testing a psychotronic plane at the time.)
So ... I like the idea, but I can't see where I'll find the time to develop it further. Maybe I'll keep it in Cold Storage whilst I work on ETF and the other Annales ... then bring the idea out if I need some leverage when trying to sell Cold Witness
(Ugh. This post is actually quite scatter-brained, isn't it? Forgive me--just thinking out loud. Part of the reason I set up this blog in the first place was so I could talk to myself. I can throw stuff at this wall and see what sticks. But, as always, Project Hooded Falcon will have to pass the test of time before I can start working on it.)
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