AG has written 15 chapters of the Eleventh Man. The idea of the book is to do a sort of satire / sci-fi / picture book. A lot of the story is based on images that I took but there will also be some new things to shoot. The feeling of the book is somewhere between an comic book for adults - and something from the old Sherlock Holmes Victorian era - such as were published in the old Strand Magazine.
We weren't sure when we started whether the images would drive the story - or the story would drive the images. Turned out to be the former.
My only role in the narrative so far has been to spitball ideas - and to try and offer an objective view of the thing. I have only read the first chapter so far. Tomorrow I'm planning to print out all the chapters and read it as a whole. I'm guessing there's another 15 chapters to go... (they are each very short).
My cat has also been writing a couple of chapters but so far they are just a lot of garbage (sorry Buddy).
The other constrainment - is that we came up with this idea that all the names, adjectives, and adverbs should be 11 characters in length. This is proving to be a real hardship but A.G. is up to the task being a former winner of the Des Moines Crossword competition. [composition = 11 characters, AG that might be useful to you)
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Who will publish it? Will it be available in this time-space manifold?
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