Hi and welcome to my new blog home. New URL, new title, same old challenge to myself to write more often. The old blog will stay open as an archive. Go read some favorites.
I'm kicking off the new digs with my Nanowrimo project, World War 2.1. Imagine World War 2 upgraded with 5000% more occult, mad science, and atomicpunk weirdness. Now imagine it written by some whackjob with ADHD and too much caffeine. The structure will be text snippets, or lexia if you've read Landow's Hypertext 2.0, in no deliberate order, connected by hypertext links by topical cross-reference. The goal of the project is to experiment with the form while re-painting a well-traveled narrative in more garrish colors.
World War 2 is imprinted into the consciousness of Western civilization. Most people don't know most of the events or actors, but nearly everyone has a broad idea of time and settings, or at least a picture distorted by time, aided by history books, novels, movies, documentaries, TV shows... I'll be building on this common imagining by replacing pieces of the puzzle, one at a time to create something familiar but bizarre. Changing all, or even most, of the pieces would be counterproductive. The real events of the war will serve as a framework to build upon.
The result is intended to be yet another framework, something for the reader to build upon. World War 2.1 should re-imagine the 2nd World War as a dynamic setting with a built-in, broadly arcing narrative, in which there is plenty of room for smaller scenes and stories.
As I write each piece, I'll post it here. There won't be any hyperlinks at first. I consider linking to be part of editing, and editing is verbotten during Nanowrimo. I'll edit it up and add the links in December, then find a permanent online home for the finished product.
So for now, sit back and enjoy the war that never happened...
...but should have.
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