Updates: June 2007 Archives
I'm actually, really, seriously, considering going back to it and finishing it. I've been enjoying reading the various drafts these past weeks, and I really like the idea of getting closure on this whole world that I created sixteen years ago, and has been haunting me ever since. I'd feel pretty sad if at the end of my life, I looked back and I had never finished the "Tim novels" as I call them. I don't really care about getting published, or even if anyone else reads them, I'd just like to reach some kind of closure.
Notes For a Future Novel was the project that gave rise to what I originally called the "Santa Zita Stories", which during dotcom became the "Santa Zita Quintet" which was supposed to look something like this:
Santa Zita Quintet
When the idea of writing five books seemed too ambitious even to me, the plan turned into something like this:
Santa Zita Trilogy
* A City On the Hill
* 1989 A Novel
* Volume III
Now my idea is to reintegrate what I've written for Helen of Santa Zita back into the Notes For a Future Novel draft from May 1993, the last draft before I abandoned it after my cross-country drive during summer 1993. Also add in some of the scenes from The Deep & Savage Way that I particularly enjoy. After that, continue writing from Part IV all the way to the end of the school year. I have oodles and scads of partially written scenes and plot notes for Notes For a Future Novel that I could use--not all of which is good, but there are some good ideas in there, and things I really wish I had written back in the day.
So the next step, is to put NFFN, HSZ and DSW together into one mass and see what's what. Then make a basic road map for the rest of the book, without getting too bogged down in details, because one of the strengths of NFFN, I think, was that I didn't play it that much, I just wrote and just let the writing guide me. It's okay to get a bit lost when writing a first draft.
Notes For a Future Novel was the project that gave rise to what I originally called the "Santa Zita Stories", which during dotcom became the "Santa Zita Quintet" which was supposed to look something like this:
Santa Zita Quintet
- A City On the Hill
- !989 A Novel
- The Deep & Savage Way
- Helen of Santa Zita
- tdp (Timothy Dylan Page)
When the idea of writing five books seemed too ambitious even to me, the plan turned into something like this:
Santa Zita Trilogy
* A City On the Hill
* 1989 A Novel
* Volume III
Now my idea is to reintegrate what I've written for Helen of Santa Zita back into the Notes For a Future Novel draft from May 1993, the last draft before I abandoned it after my cross-country drive during summer 1993. Also add in some of the scenes from The Deep & Savage Way that I particularly enjoy. After that, continue writing from Part IV all the way to the end of the school year. I have oodles and scads of partially written scenes and plot notes for Notes For a Future Novel that I could use--not all of which is good, but there are some good ideas in there, and things I really wish I had written back in the day.
So the next step, is to put NFFN, HSZ and DSW together into one mass and see what's what. Then make a basic road map for the rest of the book, without getting too bogged down in details, because one of the strengths of NFFN, I think, was that I didn't play it that much, I just wrote and just let the writing guide me. It's okay to get a bit lost when writing a first draft.
it's really fun to dream up a whole world.
Once upon a time I was a writer. This site collects all of my writing; short stories, screenplays and the so-called "Tim novels" including Notes For a Future Novel, the Deep & Savage Way and "1989: A Novel In Progress."
- Andy Warhol's Sister a short story I wrote during the summer of 1989 about a character often seen around the Santa Cruz Mall.
- Tim tells Michael the story of he and Amy almost getting together a long out-take from Notes For a Future Novel. I remember I wrote this in one day at the apartment I shared with Lisa and Sarah in San Francisco's Lower Haight.
