So How Do I Start This?

Me and my big mouth are opening up once again with a new section in the blog. Remember what I said about a new blog incorporating music, literature, drawings and hopefully videos/animations?

If not, you know what to do.

If you do, then... well, you know. Anyways, this is just a post about possible ideas.

First of all, transition. Not the transition within the story but rather, my transition. After finishing my Little Prince soundtrack (LP), I plan to go on a musical hiatus for the time being. And now I'm thinking of writing a novel?

Well, first of all. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't have any clear side or stand. I'm more of the guy who weighs out all pros and cons of a situation, interprets, and reflects on 'em. I had it made with Life of Pi and the Little Prince because they are both clear references and plots I can reflect upon and create musically. So I decided to make a story which I can make a soundtrack out of.

So why not just make the soundtrack with the story in mind right away? I wanna work on writing, a skill I barely use nowadays. I hope that makes things clear.

After transition is medium. Besides this being a Novelog (Novel + Blog), I was thinking of an audio novel, a live sequence, or something of pure animation.

Hmmm...  for a novel, it's all about the words. It's the words that create the atmosphere for the reader to immerse in the author's world. It's the words that capture every detail that is fabricated in the reader's mind. It's the words that send shivers down the readers' retinas all the way down to their spines.

If I use sound, the novel would basically linger inside people's heads; the readers' knowledge of sounds tell them the story with minimal effort of understanding since it is lost for words. However, words have that certain mystique that sound can never emulate.

The fact is that with sound and video, people are guided throughout the story with more than one sense. This makes the story practically tell itself. With words, one only uses his/her eyes and it's up to the readers to tell themselves the story according to their understanding.

Oh, and last is the genre. I was thinking of something with many references to existing forms of media; allusions if you will. It's gonna focus more on sci-fi, suspense, adventure, realism, slight surrealism, and music; hopefully with a tinge of social, religious, and political satires to boot. Oh well, it may as well be a twisted autobiography as well. Kinda like those journals people make about their secret life in worldwide espionage except that it isn't true. Well, true in the sense of how that particular person looks at the world.

Oh yeah, the title of the novel is Blue Hour. More on that later...