My First Week

    I had started this project a while ago, working on the outlines in my free time, but I eventually just put it away because I had no time to work on it. So, the first thing I did when starting this project, was to go over each outline and make sure it made sense and that I was up to date with my own little world. I then moved on to the fun part, making the new stories.
   When preparing a new story I like to come up with the basic plot and then fill in details around that. Like putting a skeleton together and then worrying about adding the meat. Most of the pages in my notebook are brainstorm pages where I write out a bunch of ideas before narrowing it down to those that make sense or that I just really like. Another thing with these stories is that they all have to connect so, before I really get to thinking of plot, I think of places I want it to connect to other stories, and make sure those connections make sense. This week I finished a plot I had started a while ago, and wrote two full new ones.

Introduction

  The purpose of this blog will be to mark my progress as I work on my assigned "20 Time" project. I will be writing and illustrating short stories about children in a (hopefully) whimsical style. The stories, though all different, will have little overlapping pieces, as they all occur in the same world. Because of these overlapping pieces, all of the stories must be planned out fully before writing in order for it all to make sense.
    So that will be my first task; plan out every story and mark where they will overlap. Then I will type them out and edit them, and draw illustrations. Finally I will write all the stories out (or print) and make a book complete with illustrations. It will be called "Stories from Beyond" because... I thought it sounded cool...

I am loosely basing my writing style on the book series Far-Flung Adventures by Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart