Dissonance

[grey-reverie.livejournal.com]

Hey all. Haven't posted here in what... a year-ish? XD;

I'm picking up the Dissonance story again. It'll probably take me a good while to post the first chapter, since I'm working a lot to move back to FL. And even once I get back there, I'll be working like crazy just to support myself. So yeah.

It's a fiction about plurality, with the focus on the story being about the conflict between the main character's system and a group of people who are attempting to overtake the inner world to escape their punishment. One of the twists is that two of the singlets the main character knows are hurled into her inner world after an accident. I won't divulge more than that. ;D

If I had it my way, this would be put in manga form instead of a novel, but since I lack the proper drawing skills (and patience to pick drawing up again XD), a novel it shall be.

My only worry is who the story will end up appealing to. I worry singlets will end up reading it and thinking "Wow, so that's what goes on in those zany multiples' heads!", and their view on us will be skewered. Or fellow multiples reading it and thinking "That's not how it is at all for me!"

Anyways, hope everyone's been doing well. =)

<3 Luca

Comments

[redrainstorm.livejournal.com]

Hopefully most people will note the word "fiction" and know that it doesn't have to relate to them as multiples in any form. "Singlets" though might take it as all multiples are a form of fiction. But, oh well. :)

[nancy-nensi.livejournal.com]

I worry singlets will end up reading it and thinking "Wow, so that's what goes on in those zany multiples' heads!", and their view on us will be skewered. Or fellow multiples reading it and thinking "That's not how it is at all for me!"

If you’re worried about that, sometimes writers use introductions or prefaces to explain things that aren’t clear from the main story.

Sounds like it will be an interesting read!

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[aquilawolf.livejournal.com]

I agree, you can explain things in an introduction and let your story flow the way it wants to.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

"the conflict between the main character's system and a group of people who are attempting to overtake the inner world to escape their punishment."

This actually happened to us, or we were told that it was happening, almost ten years ago. Although it wasn't "to escape punishment" (and you need to be clear what you mean by that -- to escape what punishment? Are these interdimensional criminals or something? And are they trying to take over, or merely hide out?). We played along because we were curious (big mistake). You know when people say "drama"? Well, that was what this was. I think these people we were dealing with were kind of hooked on "drama". People who think a disagreement or having a problem & asking for help is "drama" should have seen some of this stuff.

The idea that one can be told something is happening in one's own world is not uncommon. Some people will use just about anything to manipulate others, including claimed psychic abilities and/or claiming to visit or be in someone else's world. Consult firewheelvortex about this.

What we have found in our experience is that the main threats to our well-being don't come from experiences in our subjective universe; they come from people, right here on Planet Earth.

[grey-reverie.livejournal.com]

Mmm, well, I'm still tweaking the exact reason they are invading the inner world. Dunno what I'll call the plane of existence they are from, since I want to be more innovative than Hell, but they are souls who did wrong while in the outer world (which happens to be Earth :p), and have to serve their time before given another chance. They are invading the inner world to get out of their sentences, which are inhumanly long, basically, and are trying to use people's inner worlds as a means of getting back to Earth.

At least, that's the idea I'm toying with. What concerns me most about writing a serious story like this is that the ideas behind it are too contrived to be taken seriously. XD;

And yeah, I agree muchly with you. It's a dangerous place out there. Despite being the system leader, I still take any time I can get inside, where things are much simpler.

<3 Luca