While work on Bohr’s Bathos continues at a the opposite of a glacial pace (as in it keeps growing unlike our current glaciers), I have chosen to add a couple of additional projects to my plate to give myself a reprieve. All, but a few, are short stories. One in particular, is what this post is about – Project Tempor. For some time, I have wanted to pursue a project that was designed around the concept of mixing a certain medium. There are some pieces where I have mixed artistic pursuits and tried to translate them into writing, but there is a big difference here, I wanted to take it from a structural foundation and move it into a short story.
My normal process is to move from a question, to a narration choice, to a loosely fitting structure which attempts to answer the question. Here, and to challenge myself, I have decided to build a structure that I will adhere to, then choose a narration style, and finally apply a question I want to answer (this goes against my fundamental philosophy for writing fiction). It is out of my comfort zone, which, I don’t like to do because it tends to lead to poor pieces I don’t want to fix. However, I really enjoy the concept and have been mulling it over enough that I think I can make it work. The question I have to ask myself is simple: did I translate the medium, that I decided to focus on, properly? If I do that right, then it should be an interesting piece – at least for me. Will it be my normal style, probably not, but I am a stubborn man and will probably cheat and end up bending it into what I want it to be.