Homer Simpson- The Man, The Myth, The Cartoon

Well, I learned one thing this morning.  A guy who has a mild case of arachnophobia and is half-asleep should not look up ‘WEBS’ on a yahoo image search.  There are some majorly nasty looking spiders out there.  What demented deity would create something with freaky eyes, 8 legs, hair, venom, and just all around yuck?  The eyes are the worst because their soulless and creepy like *insert celebrity of choice*.

On to what I really wanted to talk about . . . uh . . . I think it was the restructuring, which I’ve mentioned before.  That sounds right.

I have about 40 series and one-shot books in various stages of planning.  The reason is because while trying to publish Beginning of a Hero the traditional way, I spent my free time bounding after every creative idea that appeared.  Like a ball-chasing dog in a tennis ball factory, I went wild.  This became difficult to keep up because I had different worlds and things would get mixed up.  Clyde showed up in Windemere when he shouldn’t, Sin popped into Super Earth, and all sorts of illegal cameos.  So, I took time last year to integrate everything into Windemere.  Sealed up a lot of plot issues and brought some twists to a few iffy series.

One thing I didn’t do was see if every idea was viable or if some could be merged.  Project Phoenix is a big umbrella without a real plot, so it can absorb a few.  Some ideas are rather stagnant and others might be smaller than they originally appeared.  For example, Gearhead Princess was a character originally in Project Phoenix who I gave a series too because I liked her.  Switch over and her series is revealed to not make much sense.  So, she’s going back into Project Phoenix.  You’ll find that this is going to be common.

So, today will be dedicated to fixing this.  I once to bounce these ideas off a friend in emails, but he’s busy and this is like rebuilding a car engine.  So, I’m going to have to do this alone and praying I figure stuff out.

Final note: I will admit that part of this restructuring is due to a sense of my own mortality.  Sounds weird, but I want to publish or write or outline all of my ideas before I go.  I’m 33 and my plan was to get published by 25.  This is childish thinking, but I do fear I’ll leave without all of my characters getting a chance at existence.  So, I need to see if I can find homes for all of them.  I’ve already lost a lot over the years and I sense there are going to be some that disappear in this run.  Unless . . . there are two Sin books that are lacking new characters.  I think the Mappers and the feuding sorceress sisters might have found a home.