Critical Myth

The review for Angel 2.3: “First Impressions” has been added to the archive!

6200 words.

About 10 pages in, which doesn’t sound like much, but I’m going at single-spaced, Arial 10pt, so it’s some dense stuff.  I’m a good way into a harsh confrontation between Michael and his wife Eryn.  As with so much in this story, this relationship is in serious trouble.  5 years of festering emotional wounds.  Not a fun mental space to slip into, but it’s important to establish the psychology for Michael and Eryn, together and separately, so that their reactions to the first major plot point make perfect (if heart-wrenching) sense.

Here’s an odd side to it.  I’ve always seen this story, at least in my head, as possessing a very strong “paranormal” slant.  It’s a dark fantasy thriller (talk about cross-genre), and I always struggled with the feeling that it would be too “obvious” in its fantasy elements.  But if anyone were to read the story so far, there’s absolutely nothing that hints at a “paranormal” world.  It reads more as an intricate mystery novel.

In my head, it played as the story of Sean, a character with a massive “fantasy” background.  Michael was this side character that was necessary as a foil, but I never had a sense of him beyond that.  Now, however, it’s clear that the story is really a balance between Sean and Michael.  To speak in very general and familiar terms, Sean lives and breathes in the world of the fantastic and magical, while Michael exists in a world of grounded pragmatism.  There’s a single event that drives those two worlds into collision, which is going to be a lot of fun to explore!

But first, Michael and his sad, obsessive little world!

Have you paid a visit to Entil’s Paranormal Blog yet?  There’s a new posting regarding Entil’s attendance of UNIV-CON5 at Penn State in October!

The review for Dead Zone 5.2: “Independence Day” has been added to the archive!

We’re still under construction here on the front page, but I promise, everything else about the site is just the way it was before.  Click on the series of your choice from the sidebar, or visit one of the other sites in the Entil network.  All future additions will be blogged here on the front page for convenience.  Let me know what you think as we continue to customize and play!