I try to let the characters lead wherever I can. A lot of times I sit down to write a scene and have no idea how it's going to end, and the characters just do things to on their own, with their own life.
Well, that's not very original. That's basically the same study as in Frankenstein or The Bible, the creation getting a little out of hand.
One thing I'll say about the book after reading it is how Eurocentric it is. For covering supposedly every conspiracy, it avoids the American preoccupations: alien UFOs, protestant revivalism, cryptid fauna, the JFK assassination, CIA psychic experiments, Scientologists, Mormons, and the Moon Landing. The last extant chapter of the Ordo Templi Orientis blessed by Crowley was in Pasadena, here in L.A., where we always have at least one of everything you wouldn't expect to still have – until L. Ron ran off with the cash and the girl.
One of the later points from the book is that reality more closely resembles the cheap dime novel than great literature, because in the end nothing really makes all that much sense. I've thought about that lately, with politics lately, with our country led by a guy who Trumps things up. They follow the Plan (Project 2025), which was public so they say they don't follow it. His frenemy Lex (f)Elon has companies that make robotic cars, rockets, computer chips in brains, and is in love with the letter X. They wear a red hat, which if you reverse the words you get "hat-red". Like, who is writing this stupid plot? Why are they making the symbolism so obvious, and if so, why don't people get it?
It is definitely enough to make some of our characters suspicious about how this Trump guy got merged into the universe. Honestly, I have expect Doc Brown to go, "Who's Biff? We had Don."
(08-12-2025, 07:14 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Foucalt's Pendulum is also an excellent study in how such things can take on a life of their own, and run wild independent of their creators.
Well, that's not very original. That's basically the same study as in Frankenstein or The Bible, the creation getting a little out of hand.
One thing I'll say about the book after reading it is how Eurocentric it is. For covering supposedly every conspiracy, it avoids the American preoccupations: alien UFOs, protestant revivalism, cryptid fauna, the JFK assassination, CIA psychic experiments, Scientologists, Mormons, and the Moon Landing. The last extant chapter of the Ordo Templi Orientis blessed by Crowley was in Pasadena, here in L.A., where we always have at least one of everything you wouldn't expect to still have – until L. Ron ran off with the cash and the girl.
One of the later points from the book is that reality more closely resembles the cheap dime novel than great literature, because in the end nothing really makes all that much sense. I've thought about that lately, with politics lately, with our country led by a guy who Trumps things up. They follow the Plan (Project 2025), which was public so they say they don't follow it. His frenemy Lex (f)Elon has companies that make robotic cars, rockets, computer chips in brains, and is in love with the letter X. They wear a red hat, which if you reverse the words you get "hat-red". Like, who is writing this stupid plot? Why are they making the symbolism so obvious, and if so, why don't people get it?
It is definitely enough to make some of our characters suspicious about how this Trump guy got merged into the universe. Honestly, I have expect Doc Brown to go, "Who's Biff? We had Don."
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