Monday, October 1, 2012

Alice, darkly...


My AAIW story...It's technically Eve's...erm, which, uh, technically means it's...ours...
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You get it...

I wanted to show some excerpts, since I love it so much, but...erm...I'm always afraid of people stealing my prose online. But because I'm glad someone has taken an interest in PSY and AiW, I'm going to go with this blurb that I dream to be on the back of the book one day...if not a better version of it...

Before I show 'em, I just wanna say a few words about AAIW. Firstly, it is one of the few books I had added to my Universal Library, as I call it, before I had even read it. I haven't even done that to Dracula (still haven't read it, either...). I only read it for the first time...two years ago. But by then I had already started writing my own AAIW story because of how...*seethes*...pissed off...I was at Tim Burton's movie. OH, that movie had SO MUCH potential! The only thing I don't really complain about it Depp's awesome (but not even NEARLY Mad enough!) Hatter and the Cheshire Cat!

Thus began the Alice Tale, which is what I call my AAIW when I'm not using its initials, AiW. You see, I have an obsession with the idea of a dark, horrifying AAIW story, which is what I was hoping Burton would do. As for American McGee's Alice...Let me put it straight: it looks very, very pathetic on my scale of awesomeness. I've seen a lot, okay? Screenshots, videos, gameplay...Not interesting. Not even in the slightest. Scary? Yes, in its way; more visually than anything, but nothing near what I desire. I want visuals and you glancing around in spine-tingling, but mind-fucking horror. So it's not the gore I want...it's suggestions and psychological implications. Double-meanings...etc. Xanthic's Wonderlost Project is, however, somewhat and very slightly similar to some of the things I imagine with the characters thus far (being less actual scary, but more of the double-meaning and whatnot) but unfortunately...that's just character artwork and nothing else...It leaves so much to be desired...

Let's not, however, talk about some of the most amazing and definitely dark/horrific AAIW fanart I've seen on places like...oh...deviantART...Why don't these people ever make stories for their artwork...?

So AiW is my answer for all that every other AAIW has lacked. If you know of any other dark/horror AAIWs out there, do please tell me about 'em!

So here's the blurb for my first book, before AiW, abbreviated as PSY...


And here's the first blurb for AiW itself.


Meh. I can't channel whimsy to save my life...Like I said, these are just first version blurbs. I purposely made the title of the second book similar to AAIW (AiW). 

Anyway, this is for you, Dismantlynn...

2 comments:

  1. I like it so far. I'm interested in reading more. I wish I could do creative writing. That is what pains me about my animations. I can create characters, make workable puppets, and video edit but I can't write a story for them to save my life. Completely jealous of your skills.

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  2. I think this sounds like a really interesting project :) My efforts at creative writing always seem pretentious and bug me, so stuff like this has me rather envious!

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