I'm writing this post just in case I walk four blocks to the lab and its closed today. Wonderland is running through my mind yet again. This summer was pretty crazy and a good bit of it dealt with Wonderland. Its a bar in Columbia heights, only three blocks from the metro. Many college grads live in columbia heights and having a bar nearby is like a godsend. It has two floors and an outdoor area where they serve food until about ten o' clock. I like the place; the atmosphere is warm, the girls there are friendlier than say (Tom Tom in Adam's morgan...Christ) and the drinks aren't too expensive. Its on my mind this time because I went there last night and I got slightly drunk. This is also an aspect of the story that interests me. For me, I lose inhibitions when I go to wonderland. Its like a bubble in the middle of DC where I feel free for some strange reason. That realization led to the idea for a novel, which loosely features the actual Wonderland as a place where a few people meetup for drinks and food occassionally, but then the story delves into more about their personal lives. For them (in the story), Wonderland is a hub, a place they can connect to the social network for a few hours before they are tossed back into the data stream. I guess that's how it feels for me.
I started to write the book but I stopped after ten pages. I didn't have the characters fleshed out correctly. It was supposed to be three young men, coming of age. One was a college grad working at a non-profit who was becoming jaded with the real world, the second was a girl, also a college graduate, leaving the states for the first time to do Grad school in Europe and she goes buck wild during the summer and gets pregnant. The third guy is actually in college and spends most of his time drinking with friends and wasting time, waiting around for graduation. I started my current project "Three Weeks" on July 19th, the day after I came home for a month of vacation. The "Wonderland" concept is still alive and well, and last nigth reminded me exactly why I wanted to write it. There is a lot of material to be written in that story, but as they stay in writing, you can't force it. I couldnt' force the characters, or the storyline (even though i had a wealth of material to use to make the book extremely interesting). I was thinking of using Wonderland as my projectin the National Novel writing month, but then I realized you have to use a fresh project that you've never written anything about. So i'll figure it out. But the Wonderland bug is still swimiming around in my consciousness.... so who knows.
*epic music plays in background*
I started to write the book but I stopped after ten pages. I didn't have the characters fleshed out correctly. It was supposed to be three young men, coming of age. One was a college grad working at a non-profit who was becoming jaded with the real world, the second was a girl, also a college graduate, leaving the states for the first time to do Grad school in Europe and she goes buck wild during the summer and gets pregnant. The third guy is actually in college and spends most of his time drinking with friends and wasting time, waiting around for graduation. I started my current project "Three Weeks" on July 19th, the day after I came home for a month of vacation. The "Wonderland" concept is still alive and well, and last nigth reminded me exactly why I wanted to write it. There is a lot of material to be written in that story, but as they stay in writing, you can't force it. I couldnt' force the characters, or the storyline (even though i had a wealth of material to use to make the book extremely interesting). I was thinking of using Wonderland as my projectin the National Novel writing month, but then I realized you have to use a fresh project that you've never written anything about. So i'll figure it out. But the Wonderland bug is still swimiming around in my consciousness.... so who knows.
*epic music plays in background*
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