September of 2005- I got this crazy idea after reading some really fun pulp fiction novels that I could write a book, too.
Ha ha. I could write a book.
Funny, seeing as how I have no formal training, no real qualifications, and I’m amongst about a billion other wannabe writers. But that’s never stopped me before. I do things all the time that I have no qualifications for.
So then I started to think about what kind of stories, movies, and tv shows I liked. X-Files, Millenium, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, The Twilight Zone. Raymond Chandler, Neil Gaiman, H.P. Lovecraft, and F. Paul Wilson.
So what if I wrote a novel that incorporated conspiracy, a team of discarded investigators of the unknown, strange, funny, and odd occurences, and a stark sense of unshakable courage in the face of disaster and horror.
And coffee. Lots of coffee.
And so I tried to think of archetypes that I liked and people would recognize with a fun twist. In a coffee shop.
And the Coffee Shop Saints were born after a month or so of thinking and dreaming and scribbling down notes on several different content management systems. After discovering the wonders of a Wiki system, I wrote out all kinds of characters and locations, and a whole series of potential novels
And then I started to buy “How to be a writer” books about novels and how to get an agent and all that fun stuff. Figured it couldn’t hurt.
The most exciting discovery was Nanowrimo and the book “No Plot? No Problem” by Chris Baty, one of the founders of Nanowrimo. A beautiful, hilarious book that helped inspire me to the 90,000+ words that I have thus far written.
I’m currently into the 4th revision of the novel, and decided that I should have a really cool site for the novel. And so here it is.
And here it will be. This will be the development log for the novel, picking up from here.
More fun to come. Stay tuned, true believers!
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