What I'm working on

Lately the ole blog's been more random than writerly, so here's an insight on what I'm currently working on:

The Big Project: Not an Autobiography -- a collection of linked short stories more or less about yours truly--except better than real life, and very considerably darker. I've recently decided that the book will appear as three parts, now tentatively called: [Dark Erie], [Grey Erie - Dreary Erie], and [Light Erie - Fleeting]. Each section is going to follow the general theme set by its section title with Dark dealing more with the "bad shit" and light the "good shit" with Grey being a repository of shit that doesn't really sift to either side. I'm thinking the Grey section will be more of a morass of snippits and short shorts that are looking for definition of one side or the other but...failing on that endeavor. Dark will be longer than Light in terms of stories, and that's about it.

Current stories in progress:

[Runaway] - A triptych: This contains remnants of the story that kicked off the whole idea for the book. A revisualization of certain aspects of my life through the eyes of a very goth girl going through a period of extreme mundinaeity that gets instantly fucked up by the death of her father that she hasn't spoken to for twelve years because of some bad shit on her behalf during her parents' divorce. The "Left" and "Center" Sections I'm pretty happy with, but "The Right" hasn't earned its ending yet, nor does it really arc well enough as it's own story. This is a "Dark" side story.

[Medieval Weddings and something or the other] - This is a pair of stories written in Middle English originally for Sue for a wedding present. They tell the story of us, and a story about foxes. I'm at a standstill with this one at the moment. I'm still not sure how to wrap the stories into the proper context, since slapping 20 pages of Middle English on the page without any form of translation/explanation is going to go over like a lead balloon. Also the story about foxes needs to be rewritten to be more dynamic, and I'd like to make an attempt to improve the language/rhyme scheme (ie create one), or at least do something so that it doesn't read as choppily as it does. When finished, this will be one of the stories in the "Light" side of the book.

[Four out of Five] - This story is an expansion on a period of skipped time within "(Un/Re/I )Do". It's my newest endeavor, and currently it's scope is waaaay too wide. It's basically about Johnny meeting and working towards dating Elise, but in a very asshole sense. It strips away the hopeless arty victim characterization of Johnny in the parent story, and repaints Johnny as a complete womanizing asshole. This is definitely a "Dark" side story.

And those are the big Key items for the moment.