Plotting

No story blog today. I need to do more plotting and world building before I post more story items. In website news I've been debating what my goal should be with this site and I'd like to make it the central archive for all more story telling. As such I have purchased Duskhaven.info and plan to migrate over to that site soon. Right now the debate is where do I host it. I'm thinking of just getting a low end account at GoDaddy and continue to use blogger as the front end to the site. The link section can handle my static sections I think.

Speaking of other works let's discuss those a bit. DuskHaven is my new darling but my first story is a sci-fi romp called Flight of the Amadeus. The story centers around the crew and passengers of the colony ship Amadeus. Trouble and tragedy await them. It should be fun. Amadeus is part of my own little Known Space Universe. I haven't yet come up with a good name for it so I'm borrowing the name from Larry Niven. The Universe is full of other races and mankind is a small fish in a big pond right now. The first story takes place over several decades as the Amadeus journeys towards their new home. I started it in 2006 during my first Nanowrimo and expanded out one chapter in 2007. I've managed to write myself into a corner as I haven't plotted out enough in advance and have been making it up as I go along. While that technique can work great for Nanowrimo it doesn't work so well when you want to actually finish and attempt to publish a book.

I'm currently looking for a good plot tool. I use OpenOffice and Microsoft Word interchangeably for typing depending on whether I'm on my Linux based Eee or on my Office machine running Windows. I've also used Roughdraft for writing which had the benefit of being much simpler then Word or OpenOffice. But for plotting I've struggled with yWriter quite a bit as well as Celtx. I think either could work really well but I have a hard time filling in all the details that I've already written about. Characters and places that I know I don't want to go back and fill in the blanks even though it would make things easier in the long run. Doing a wiki has also been suggested and I think that idea might work really well along with this blog site, It's something I'm looking at at least.

Let's see what else can I tell you that you don't already know and might actually care about. I'm a Capricorn and my favorite color is blue. Oh wait wrong kind of details, The character Rolard was my Paladin in World of Warcraft which is probably not too surprising to the three of you that actually read this site. I used to make up my own stories for him while bored and waiting on the Griffins or waiting after a Lucifron kill in MC for late comers to catch up. Watching a dancing druid gets old after a while believe it or not so stories helped fill the time for me. DuskHaven itself must have been percolating in the back of my head for a while because it all came together quickly when I sat down to write a fantasy story. DuskHaven has it's roots in Stratholme and the Eastern Plaguelands I'm sure. But I've been trying very hard to not let this turn into WoW fanfic and I hope I succeed with it. Enough for today no I need to try to plot for the second short story in the world The EarthSeers Daughter which I am not convinced is the best choice for the second story but I liked the idea of it so I'm running with it.