Miskatonic prep work (or, my dot plan)
Lovecraft invented a river named the Miskatonic. "Miskatonic" is the code name for my novel. I plan to reuse a lot of bits and pieces from various Lovecraft stories. In my youth, I read a great many of Lovecraft's stories, but my memories of them are fuzzy.
My plan is to re-read a bunch of the stories, then do a close reading of a half dozen of them. I hope to take those stories apart, and understand how Lovecraft made them. It should also spark some ideas.
Most recently, I read The Shadow Over Innsmouth. I've been going back over the text, and already found a couple of ideas for my book. I have a boy-meets-girl, boy-looses-girl, boy-sacrifices-humanity love subplot. Also, I want to do something with a small population of Fiji Islanders living in Cape Cod.
My plan is to re-read a bunch of the stories, then do a close reading of a half dozen of them. I hope to take those stories apart, and understand how Lovecraft made them. It should also spark some ideas.
Most recently, I read The Shadow Over Innsmouth. I've been going back over the text, and already found a couple of ideas for my book. I have a boy-meets-girl, boy-looses-girl, boy-sacrifices-humanity love subplot. Also, I want to do something with a small population of Fiji Islanders living in Cape Cod.
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