Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Attempting to use Plotto method

Attempting to use Plotto method to flesh out Keller plot.

Basis of “Masterplot”:  three parts to any story

(A) = Establish protagonist
(B) = Begin and Move conflict
(C) = Finish conflict; Resolve conflict

Characters are designated by A (male), B (female), A-2 (other male), etc….


Peeking into the Plotto book masterchart (pictures below), I like both #8 and # 13:

#8:  (A) = a person influence by an Obligation

#13:  (A) = a person influenced by the Occult and the mysterious


I wonder if a way can be found to mix the Plotto equations for the two.  The answer I suspect is yes, because Wallace reportedly wrote Plotto to allow great freedom of imagination and interpretation.

First, #8, influence of obligation (38): intrigued by Conflict # 987

(1319a) (1214)
A, influenced by a compelling idea of responsibility, finds it necessary to protect his friend, A-2, from a secret danger * A is indirectly the cause of danger to his friend, A-2.  A-2 is ignorant of the danger; and A cannot tell A-2 about it.
(867) (1227a)

From the Keller view:

Hanin knows a specific wound must occur to his friend during a station brawl.  The wound fails to materialize.  Hanin must commit the injury to his friend himself, thereby maiming or even killing his friend.

or

During a station brawl, Hanin impulsively protects his friend from a secret comm injury at the hands of the rivial clan.  Realizing his mistake, he must commit the injury to his friend himself.


[Aside, station brawl secret comms:  who recovers the wounded and dead?  Do the causalities return to their clan?  Or do the clans get to keep who they kill?  Need to figure out how the secret comms work.  Is the communication through injury to hard to define?  What are the rules??  I need more whiskey and fire.]









if i fell in a forest

Snowfall in solitude.
The silence is deafening. I can hear my heart beat. I can hear little drifts of snow falling from the trees. The wind. No other sounds. Just my thoughts pounding the front of my skull and moving their way out of my mouth for none but me to hear. These woods know my name. This mountain is like family, familiar and comforting. Frustrating and cold. The snow continues to pile up against the aspen trees falling from the sky in perfect works of one of a kind art. I rest and relish the solitude and the perpetual motion of nature. It is always changing and moving forward. Every new season is as unique as these snowflakes peppering my hooded head. It may seem exactly as the winter was last year, but it is not. It is it's own moment in time, never to be again. The leaves fall to the ground in the Autumn, just like every year, but if you look closely it is never the same.
We are the seasons. Ever changing and new in the moment. A second that will never return.
Which way do i go? Do I traverse the ridge line just below, moving laterally like a heavy arrow through the trees, the whistling in my ears and burning my face. Or do I head straight down at a staggering and scary speed and take to the sky for a moment, pushing through the air like water through a canyon?
I go straight and fly off the edge, my heart pounds as I leave the ground. Everything goes quiet. My arms roll down imaginary car windows to keep balance. Once, twice, three times. Impact! the snow is deep and soft and in a snap i am underneath it as it slides down upon me like an ocean wave crashing over me washing all other thoughts away. Survival is the one the one that remains. The baser instinct, the driving force behind our species limited success.
A drift had come loose as I left the ground and it followed me to the ground bellow and buried me alive.
Panic! Digging.
Am i digging up or down?
Spit.
Down. Dig the other way. Can't breathe. Reaching for the sky i see the light pierce through my snowy tomb. It blinds me as a sigh in relief.
This is going to take a while.
Relax.
Breathe.
Back on top of the snow, I continue down the steep tree lined snow field a little more cautiously than before.
My edges seem sharper. The air smells crisper.
It takes the fear of death to really appreciate life.
I love doing this because it is terrifying. It is also controllable.
Any moment I could slam into a tree, fall off a cliff, or be buried under an avalanche. You can die in the blink of an eye.
The control is the thrill. Making sharp skillful jump turns, narrowly avoiding trees slapping low lying dead branches away from your head. you choose a line. Anywhere between three and twenty of your next turns are carefully planned and linked together. In your mind you have made the turn and are on to the next before you arrive at the first. The skill and perfect execution is the reward. No two lines are ever the same.
My legs throb, quads feel like heavy stones, but I am already thinking of my next line.
I like to ride alone. i go where I want, when i want. I don't have someone else to wait on or worry about. Only i know my days story.
A smile pushes my lips as a dart out of the woods and forty feet down onto a main trail where I sail around skiers as if they weren't even moving.
Another boarder comes out of the woods grabbing his tail as he drops the fifteen foot rock.
I yell an unintelligible roll tongued cheer as he crisscrosses my turns.
We fist bump as our turn meets up and blaze to the bottom of the lift.
The lifty looks at us covered in snow like powdered dough nuts, smiles on our wind burned faces.
"Must be pretty terrible up there today. You guys look like you re having no fun at all," he says as he swings the chair towards us.
"It's the worst, " I reply with a laugh and another fist bump.
"Let's hit some trees," my new friend smiles to me.
"If you can keep up."
I should probably head back, but there's always one more run and he could keep up. We headed back up the lift together.
"One more?" he asks.
"There's always one more," I reply, "but my one more is tomorrow.I still got to get back to the gondola before the lifts close.
The ride back to the gondola takes about 30 minutes. One lift to the top, a long flat traverse from Strawberry Park to Bachelors gulch, a run down Bachelors gulch, then a trail down around the hotel over bridges and roads. More solitude as it gets darker and colder.

Exhausted legs won't keep me from another powder day tomorrow much like this one. Life is pretty good.
Even when one day seems like the last,
Life is good.

Have not found the muse lately to continue our space oddessy. Will get back to it soon.
What are the other guys thoughts on the kung-fu communication from my last entry?
Where does the actual fighting happen? are the separate clans on different cycles or do they share the bell to the next destination?
Im out of town until Monday. Let's have another pow wow some time next week.

snow fall in solitude


Tuesday, February 28, 2017

…because it will just flow out.

…because it will just flow out. Like water, like liquid, like the ink from squid did. Signs of fear, signs of response, posture of repose, squeeze open, the bellows. Scene the say, and sign the second sentiment of succor. Sicken, search, sigh, and stake.

I’m like Jimmy da Lips, and his favorite lips loosener, Moon River.

Ok, study group back in session. We have been stalling out a bit. And that’s cool. The recent days have been filled with nothing, and it is deafening.

What sense of the five would you choose to lose? I vote, Bob.

Meandering, meager, merger, metastasize. The big C, the leaf fallen from the tree, the pee, the waste of our generation. Mickey’s a mouse, and I’m a louse, and I have bugs beneath my skin. But my cat has it worse. Poor bubba.

Second sight, up all night, can’t see the sun for morning. Left it a while, a while back, found head full of beetles boring. Boring beetles, boring beetles, boring beetles, boring beetles, eating their way to the back of the skull. Everything starts at the eyes and ears, sinks in, burning through like potent acid. We burn away in the face the of the world. The endless bouncing, reflecting particles of electromagnetic waves, cooking us, battering us, baring us to the bright death of dissipation, dismemberment, vaporization, atom fission, nucleic abolition.

Doesn’t make any sense does it.

But that’s alright. It’s a kite. Doesn’t matter what you think, or what I think. It matters only how windy the day. And the strength of the string.

“I sure wish this fever would go away.”
“She has no idea how fast it goes.”

Loosen up Lucy. Leave the luck lady behind. Little late Larry. Try to mind the minute hand.

 Because it will just flow out, like dreams before coffee. Like advice before the blame. Like evidence before prosecution. It flees, and we are refugees forever. Moving ever from home to home, from identity to identity, from love to love, from rainbow back to rain. Because it never stops. The words, the voices, the snap judgments, the fears, the aspirations, the recriminations, the finger pointing, the finger banging for that matter.  It is effortless, and without choice. It is hell in heaven. We dream we’re awake and return to full consciousness every night. We snore through our lives like great mutant elephants striding in a herd through the savanna twilight. There is Sven, and he sparkles.

Because it collects in a pool. It flows from higher to lower, from higher pressure to lower pressure, bringing wet, and collected debrie from a thousand million hundred buttery fly wingbeats. It is spell corrected and pulled over for a roadside soberity test. It is booked, printed, arraigned, and released upon its own recognizance. It is a map of a globe projected upon a two dimensional surface. It is false, it is lies, and garbage companies named Lies. It is picked up each week. And then dragged back into the alley to wait another week. It is blather and chaos. It is incomprehensible. It leads with affixes and begs off with suffixes. It pretends and loiters. It cons and reveals its game. It knows, what the knowing know.

Feeling flight, the flightless revel in the strong stream of the surreal. When you throw a penguin in the air, from an airplane, it suddenly sees the sky as the sea. Flap flap, spin dive, swoop, poop, splat.

Kettle cool, simple style, whisper loud, all the while. Screaming screech, porch door slam, that woman, done left her man.

Moon River.

Hold a candle for me, and let the hot wax run. Down your sleeve, under your clothes. Feel the sudden heat, and instant cooling. The sticky crackle of solidifying steaming streams.

Sigh.