Wait . . .what . . . what is this ?

. . . A blog update ???? . . . . A story update ??? . . . and a Shawna & Erik post ???? Took you long enough !!!

Failed Partnership
I though I would go ahead and say what you are all thinking. So, yes this is a Shawna and Erik post but really it is a Shawna post because I am writing this. I originally took Erik on as a writing partner for this project because his writing style was good for a specific part of this new story. However the writing partner relationship kind of fell apart. I enjoy his help and critique but, you will never see a book written by Shawna and Erik. Good thing we like to do other things together !

Web Serial

So, I do have a taste of the new web serial. I wanted to have most of it storyboarded/written before I introduced it so, you wouldn't read something new and wait forever for an update *cough* Lile *cough* ( :

The new chapter in the Closer to Earth Series is called Hidden. I do know it will be shorter than Veritas by a lot and then the 3rd in the series (which I am so excited about even though I have yet to write it !!!) will be even shorter.

I will say that music is often times the hardest for me so, I may be reusing music and favorites trying to re-contextualizing it. However the new music I do have I am so excited about. I got them all from a particular show that has fantastic music !

Icebergs

I am trying a new style of writing. I want to try and use the Iceberg Theory. A theory on short story writing where you only show the important action of the plot and not explain all the background information that is underneath the surface. You only see/read the "tip" of the iceberg and you kind of feel out the rest. Of course the background information will be revealed in later chapters because this is not a short story. I am trying this theory on a few chapters.

This theory was mostly attributed to Hemingway's short stories. He explains it as :

"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."


Incidentally enough his most well known novel is The Sun Also Rises and it was published when he was 26ish. For some reason I imagine if he were alive today he would fit in at Cobalt as a young writer. Not to mention Joel would have some competiton in the office. Here is Heminway's photo at that time :



Hidden

Hidden Chapter 1