6:7

Hmmm, I guess I should have read some of this drivel earlier in the planning process: blech. Ain’t gonna win awards with this dreck.

Maybe I should focus on designing awards for anyone who’s managed to keep up this long. A girl with a cowgirl accent? And can you just imagine what a sarcastic beaver would actually sound like? Two buck teeth will go a long way to making your speaking voice unintelligible, or at least add a lovely comedic lisp to the process.

And I’m a pretty sure I had a point in mind when adding the narrator, but that sure as hell got lost pretty early in the process.

Maybe I should study up on the DC world and do one of those famous comic book reboots. The rabbit can be a Rhodes scholar magically transformed by the gods to hunt down Loki, who because of his last and ill-conceived trick against Odin was punished by being turned into a beaver. Oh, this is good.

Gareth and Rowan are two master’s students from the Classics department ensnared in a complex plot to prevent Professor Edward from stopping Loki before he manages to save the day.

Ooh, ooh, and the weird guy in the tower (what the hell is that about anyway–talk about writing yourself into an incoherent corner) can be a lost soul doomed to act as gatekeeper yet secretly sympathizing with Loki’s mission. He was enslaved by Barney, a multi-dimensional being who encompasses all matter but has of late been leaning a bit too much to the evil side–much to the detriment of our local space-time.

So who does that leave? The narrator’s just gone: stupid idea to begin with. The incidentals can be rewritten as minions of one sort or another, and maybe I’ll get them some red shirts or something. That’s what the plot needs: a few gory deaths here and there.

Oh, Meredith. Right. Ummm, I guess she’s the mother earth figure: Gaia or some such. Not sure if there is a Norse equivalent, but hell, it’s my book, I’ll just make one. She can be the focal point of the evil Barney-spirit’s interference and maybe she needs to recover her magic veil or jewel or some shred of her all-soul. I’ll figure it out later.

So, now we know. A reboot. Good.

….

Of course on reflection it actually doesn’t sound like less work. In fact, it’s rather more if I have to go back and retell all first bits again. Huh. But … yah, I just did, didn’t I? So if I go and put an asterisk back at 1:1 telling them to skip ahead to 6:7 before reading further, then any new readers can fill it in for themselves and all you current lucky readers are good to go.

So, step one complete.

Step two: figure out how to do this easier. Well, since I’ve already ripped off the comic book guys, why not keep dipping my pen in their well. I’ll just write the words assuming in some later date that I can hire a illustrator to fill in the actions. That way I can get away with “BAM” and “Holy habitual habits, Batman!” and that’ll be enough for an entire episode. I’ll just set a conversion rate of one page per day, or even better, one panel per day and this will be simplicity itself.

Wow, sometimes I amaze myself.