So my brain has been a hot plate of creativity and ideas lately. It’s amazing what just relaxing and not freaking out about what hasn’t been done yet can do for creative juices.
I want this website of mine to be awesome.
I know that sounds a bit conceited but I want folks to come and visit for fun, for interest, for something that’ll entertain and keep people interested. So I’m always figuring out to make it better. I want to up the anti as they say here in NZ.
I had this idea. Well, actually, I re-remembered the original idea. I’ve always wanted to create an online presence that is kind of like stepping directly into the universe of the books. Long term plans are to create a game kind of like world of warcraft – 3D and addictive – but in the Time Speaker Universe.
Now, I was thinking yesterday how I can turn what I have of the website into literally stepping into the universe like that original dream. And I got an idea. What if I make Rahan Aria (a blip character) into a bigger character, but bigger outside of the story. He’s a Computer Talent, he’s a gloriously geeky personality and playful… what if Raha made a website for Hawk? What would he need to put up? What would it look like? How could I realistically make it with little-to-no resources so that it’s like you’ve stumbled upon an illegal website of the Rebels?
Now, some of my ideas I can’t do.. I don’t have the money or know-how to do a guerrilla campaign online like they sort of did for Lost, but I can do some of these ideas. The image is that Raha will make a hub area online. Untraceable, that’ll piggy-back other major sites, that’ll give information to the Reader about the universe, while also making a game of things. Make riddles etc. to link to secret pages with extra information for the Universe, make Raha’s hub page like a “glossary” that’ll link to the pages with the relevant information on “other websites”… like… stuff about the definition etc. of Psi and Talent will link to an area that looks like the Agency site, stuff about the Church of the Founder will look like their website.. and so on… and I’ll pepper the pages with codes and ciphers and fun twirly bits for people to work out so they can find the hidden “Rebel” pages.
This sounds like a lot of work.. I totally know… but it’ll be fun too. So I’m going to start off with just setting up the “other website” pages and the main hub. Once I have much of the Glossary data up and working and indexed with the scenes in Rise of Hawk, I’ll then work on the ciphers and secret pages.
Perhaps I can put myself up on the site as a fellow Rebel, telling the stories. Like.. I’m actually in the Rebels and writing these stories to raise funds for the Rebels. So buy a book support the cause!
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This is going to be fun, I think. :3
