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You know what they say. It isn't Science unless it's Written Down.

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  • 411 weeks
    "The Last Illusion" is So Long!

    I mean, it is pretty long but not that long. Certainly, at this point, the largest continuous narrative I have ever written, if I count all that I have that is not hosted on this website. In total, it will have, like, seven Acts or something. I have the entire plot figured out, for the most part, but just the other day I noticed a really unfortunate knot I will have to untie about halfway

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  • 414 weeks
    What "The Last Illusion" is Not About

    Those of us that have read about Trixie and Ditzy Doo eventually become aware of a few patterns.

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  • 417 weeks
    The Difficulty of Third Person "Objective"

    At this point, I am mostly here to complain.
    Those who have been reading my story "The Last Illusion" may know by now what I am talking about. The story is read out of a book. The book writes itself. But, "most" of the time, it is not a character. In fact, it seems literally incapable of treating itself as one.

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  • 419 weeks
    Inspiration via the Loss of Magnificence

    If I were to think back through all of the thinking I did about "The Last Illusion", I could probably point to a number of things as its inspiration. But, there is one thing that I think has stuck the hardest after all the visions and revisions.

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  • 420 weeks
    Regarding my Aversion to Adventure Stories

    Truth is, most of the time I find adventure stories very dull. As if, while I read, there is something much more interesting happening later that I am anxious to get to. The beginning is interesting, the end is certainly something, but the middle? Characters and places that I will not be penalized for forgetting.

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Apr
16th
2016

What "The Last Illusion" is Not About · 4:30am Apr 16th, 2016

Those of us that have read about Trixie and Ditzy Doo eventually become aware of a few patterns.
Trixie is conceited and egotistical. But through some heroic arc or trial, finds herself softening her brash and forthright exterior. She confronts her own insecurities, and in doing so becomes stronger than she was before. And she ends the self-centered streak that is her obnoxiously announcing her own name everywhere she goes.
This does not happen in my story.
Ditzy Doo, on the other hand, takes two forms. She is either somehow disadvantaged or monstrously misunderstood. In some stories, she is nigh a savant at some activities, such as engineering or seeing into alternate dimensions of space. This oddity grants her ridicule, the likes of which she must overcome. In others yet, she is literally disabled. But through friendship and kindness or something, she finds a place in the world and winds up pulling through for herself. As if she is "inspirational".
Again. Not quite what I am going for.
With "The Last Illusion", I am hoping to appeal to different understandings of these characters. At the same time, there are a lot of other themes, the likes of which I hope my readers do enjoy. But one thing I knew going into this story is that I was going to try my absolute darndiest to write these characters with a little... something different. Something which gives a bit of new meaning to "Great and Powerful" besides "Humble" or "Inspiring".
I challenge others to do the same. And I invite them to read my story, as well.

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