October 25, 2005

Okay here's the deal.

I have this story I am trying to write, semi-fictional history, based in Montreal.

Main themes are queer histories, masculinity, natural taxonomies, language and class.

Mostly it's a love story though, I think. I am planning on making it a sort of illustrated novel, it was going to be a comic book but I write too much for that.

My problem however, is that I can't seem to focus on things that aren't here, in a textbox on a screen. Also I hate writing little scraps of fiction in pencil or in some office doc editor and than not having a way to go back and stick it somewhere else or edit it without re-writing the whole damn thing on separate page.

I am a product of my environment I guess. Also apparently I really look forward to feedback when I write and the fiery furnace of creativity is proving to be a lonely place indeed.

So nu, whattamIgonnado. I am going to install a wiki on my site. Actually - I have already renamed it the flinki - cuz I am cunning. and then I am going to ask you guys my kind readers to volunteer to edit my work occasionally.

Maybe once a month, go check, see whats been added and what's been crossed out etc...I will credit you as editors on the wiki and on whatever ends up getting published.

The Wiki will be password protected. Probably not a whole lot will be public to anyone but my editors and myself, mostly because I think the creative process is intimate and can get intense and rewarding if it's kept kind of exclusive, like la famiglia, you know. So if you are interested in particpating please send me an email (mir@flinknet.com) and I will add you to my list of users.

I don't see it as being a huge time commitment, and I hope you will find the story enjoyable, if you ever are in my town or if you already live in my town I will buy you a beer every time we cross paths just to say thanks for the help.

In addition, if the idea is working and people are getting into the process, I will have upload forms for adding images and background visual data which I will need for when I start working on the illustrations...

I am really interested in using the web as a venue for creative writing that isn't just about my singular vision painstakingly cobbled together from pages I can bang out once every few weeks on average. I want my vision to be shared from its inception and I want other peoples ideas and voices to inform what I am trying to create. I have a great deal of faith in the value of the story I want to tell, and I think it will be an interesting project for other creative individuals and not just myself.

So yeah, email me, please...

Nu.

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