Hello!
Thank you for writing Solitaire, it’s a beautiful book. Having live journal pages for Solitaire characters is a great idea. I especially like the pages of Snow, Estar, and the cat (so cute). When did you think of the idea? Thanks.
Adrienne
I’m glad you like the book.
I thought of the idea for the journals last year when I discovered a Live Journal community that was a Harry Potter role-playing game. Each player was a character from the books. Each character had their own journal, and all the posts were collected together in the community journal. It was as if you were reading an ongoing report from various points of view of what was happening at Hogwarts. I thought it was a great idea, really creative, and then I thought, hmmm…. these folks are playing a game, creating a community story, but why not use this structure to create a different kind of fiction?
The beauty of the journal format is its flexibility. Journals are by their nature a mix of the daily and the Big Event. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to wander around more in the world, hang out with people in Solitaire when nothing in particular is happening, have extraneous conversations…. Then there’s the chance to get more into the heads of Snow, Scully, Crichton, and Estar, the layering of different points of view on the same events. I have lots of ideas. And of course, there will also be a story unfolding, because otherwise it just seems self-indulgent. So that’s a challenge for me – a new kind of story, an accretion of daily details.
The cat sends his regards. He agrees that he is very cute (grin). You might be interested to know that Nicola channels the cat for these journals. It’s fun to have her come play in my world. This collaborating thing might become addictive….