Transit

[oloriel]

During my second or third re-reading of the Sandman series, I was bitten by a plotbunny for a graphic novel that I always wanted to... write? draw? create, anyway. (Random aside: Mark of Mark Reads currently reads The Sandman.)
I actually drew a few (really crappy) panels, and I wrote a few scenes in all-text.
Basically, it was a Silmarillion/Real World crossover in which in the end ALL THE MYTHS WOULD TURN OUT TO BE TRUE. I did all this "future" research for suitable events that would be useful for the storyline, too! I was delighted that there would be a Venus transit in 2012, BEFORE the Olympic Games, for instance, because both of those would work really well for SECRET PLOT I had in mind! And it had to be 2012 because of THE END OF THE WORLD (that was long before Roland Emmerich announced his attention to make a crap movie based on the premise).

Well, and then I never got around to doing much about it.
And anyway, there was so much time left until 2012!

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That Venus transit happened yesterday. In the storyline of my presumably-never-to-be-written grand graphic novel, Venus would now have disappeared and Fëanor (not his style to wait for the Valar to finally come around, is it?) would be in possession of one Silmaril again. And so it begins.
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Well, it sounded better in my head anyway.

Still, I'm feeling slightly wistful. I mean, I really invested brainpower into that story, and actually saw several panels - pages, even - before my mind's eye, and always sort of looked forward to getting them done for real. (The ones I did draw, of course, never looked half as good. :P) But by now it feels sort of pointless to do anything about the thing. In 2013, the surprise ending would after all be no longer surprising...
Blah.

Oh well. At least I can always re-read The Sandman. >_>

Comments

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Aww. I know how you feel - I was thinking about a story I started writing, uh, a while ago, and was thinking that a lot of the plot points and commentary that I put in would be completely old hat and/or obsolete now, and felt the same wistful sadness in that. Ah well. I might attempt to rescue it at some point :P

Mark Reads The Sandman? Awesome! I HAVE to check that out.

;)