AT LEAST I ADMIT MY CRAZY.<\/p>\n
ANYWAY.<\/p>\n
I haven’t worked on either the Ben & Marina<\/a><\/b> story or the Kate & Michael<\/a><\/b> story in weeks. Things were dragging and sputtering as it was and I hadn’t put anything more than a handful of words down on the page in too long. Then I had a questionable dream that sparked a questionable writing idea that morphed into something completely different that I started cranking out dialogue for. ( Still writing. Just writing different things. Par for the course, I suppose. But frustrating nonetheless. I had made such significant progress on the Ben & Marina story and now…nothing.<\/p>\n When I wrote my “grand masterpiece<\/i>” Chances Are<\/a><\/b><\/i>…fourteen years ago…I created the Chance Records<\/i> label. (And the Mountain Reel Pictures<\/i> movie production company.) (Apparently there was once a real Chance Records<\/a><\/b> label. But fourteen years ago I did not have internet access and had no way of Googling such things. ((Never mind that Google didn’t really exist then anyway…I suppose I could have Yahoo-ed it. But again…no internet.)) And I’m not about to change it when none of my writing will ever get published anyway.)<\/p>\n Where was I?<\/p>\n MY<\/i><\/b> Chance Records<\/i>.<\/p>\n Right.<\/p>\n I created the record label specifically for that story. When I was done with that project, the gears kept turning on the possibility of more CR artists. I know absolutely nothing about the music industry (as is glaringly obvious by anything I write about it) but writing about musicians fuels and feeds both my music obsession and my need to write, so it became a running theme through the past fourteen years of writing. There has been a lot of complete and utter crap produced, but there are a couple of projects that are still in the active pipeline.<\/p>\n In the Chances Are<\/i> story, aside from the singing group named Chances Are<\/i>, there was another CR artist that played a small but notable role in the timeline. Since its creation, I’ve kept a running list of CR artists and that one singer always stood out in my mind. Probably because he was the second ever CR artist. I don’t know that I ever really planned to revisit him as a potential story all on his own…but now he’s the focus of the latest Chance Records<\/i> connected story, along with a few other reoccurring CR-related characters.<\/p>\n Sure it gets confusing as hell, but I like the idea of so many of my projects being interconnected like that.<\/p>\n Of course this particular project dredges up the problem with the Name Game<\/a><\/b> all over again because one of the reoccurring CR-related characters is named KATE<\/i> and…well…she<\/i> has been Kate<\/i> longer than any of the other Kates<\/i> have been Kate<\/i> so she gets to keep her name. For now. Unless I finally find something I like better. Which I don’t see happening.<\/p>\n But I won’t say never<\/i>.<\/p>\n Yet.<\/p>\n I try to convince myself all of these Kates<\/i> are okay because in each project Kate<\/i> is short for something different. There are a lot of choices to derive the name Kate<\/i> from. I could just start referring to all of them exclusively by their full name and eliminate any confusion between stories.<\/p>\n Or so I tell myself.<\/p>\n But I like to keep things as confusing as possible.<\/p>\n It’s what I do.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\nNo, it wasn’t the Andy Grammer and a platypus<\/a><\/b> dream…although…nevermind.<\/a><\/s>) And then somehow that<\/i> project reminded me of a character I created years ago<\/i> and I had the brilliant idea to revive said character into a new storyline and now I’m sitting with two new projects that have been occupying my mind for a few weeks now.<\/p>\n
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