So as you may or may not know, care to know, or wish you didn't know I've been working on a "book" – a single unified creative project, since, well, about 2001. It, along with promotional art for my friend's band the funktaculobombbastic Elephant Minor, is the only artistic endeavour I allow myself. Well what you probably didn't know is that about three months ago about 95% of all of it – about 100 pages of plot, the entirety of the language, all the character sketches, and the totality of the music forms and art forms that I had invented for – was lost due to the hard drive on my laptop deciding to "take the easy way out."
The result of this catastrophe was that it forced me to completely reanalyse what I was attempting to do with the project. The answer I arrived at – after a lot of reading and after a few really cool dreams – was that it needed to start in the middle of a massive war, that the first act should end in tragedy, and that the second act should deal with the two major themes "illusion" and "duality" directly and literally by creating a two distinct setting – one of reality and one of non-reality.
The following paragraph is the first paragraph of the first act – any comments, hate, love or critique is most certainly welcome.
"A black demon fell through the sky. His body was flaccid and he plummeted head first and heavily. Below a wanton battle was being fought. Gluttonous swords greedily savoured flesh and spiteful arrows sang lusty songs of death. With sooty armour and chipped swords masked horsemen cleaved through rows of hag-ridden foot soldiers while panicky archers snapped innumerable rounds, desperate to avoid the cold pikes of dread spearmen. In that mucky valley – writhing in fire and contempt – it was impossible to discern defender from aggressor; ally from enemy; living from dead."
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