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October 1, 2009
It's starting to get cliche above and beyond redundant in bullshitting potential xeers (Xangles
readers) that there's some mighty warehouse of hard drives of
material we just haven't gotten around to posting yet. One of the
few Xangles fans we know commented this month, "Why don't I
exist?" And we replied, "We'd give you an answer if you did, or
if you want, just go check out the 70 pages of Writer's Bricks posted this month."
This
wasn't good enough, so the hallucinatory xeer continued: "I find it
quite odd to believe that after an entire year, there isn't a single
Xangles junkie demanding black and white Xangles wallpaper for
their living room, or organizing manic Frangles conventions, or at the
least, forming a few fight clubs in preparation for Xangles world
domination. I don't even have any friends to talk about Xangles to, since you haven't taken enough hallucinogens to think me up any friends, nor can I express my love for Xangles in any tangible way whatsoever seeing how I don't exist in any way, shape, or form. I would express my disdain at being the only Xangles, Frangles, and Blorkk
fan in the known universe (and intertwine this complaint cleverly with
subtle Xangles / Frangles / Blorkk references that nobody would get
except you guys), but since there isn't even one Xangles fan (let alone me), I can only start by complaining about a lack of coherent manuals on Unpopular Website Existentialism!
"For
a full year all you've done is hype and type and delivered nothing but
a couple shit novellas, and scribble a bit on people's desktops with
your lame backgrounds. For the love of god, would you simply
break down and be honest for once and admit that you're full of shit
and you don't have any more unposted material than the rest of
this paragraph? Just say, 'We lied, it's all lies, this is all
there is,' and make a nutty xeer happy so I can get back to surfing eBay, Bing, and SexyYoopyHotSlutNaked.com.
You can take it down the moment you admit it (since gods of
Florbb know I spend most of my waking hours hitting refresh on the
updates page), but just post it, damn you, just once. Just post
in nice big bold letters, 'We lied, we fooled you, ha ha,
evil triumphs because good is dumb,' and let me dissolve back into
the oblivion from which I still haven't emerged from to date, despite a
year's worth of work and forty trillion Xangles hits from URL typos of
surfers trying to get to eBay, Bing, and SexyYoopyHotSlutNaked.com. Please?"
To
which we finally responded just to be rid of the xeer's nagging,
"Alright, we'll say it, but it won't be true," then thought better
of the promise later, so here we go once again without any such
ridiculous lie. As they say in that old October 2009 Xangles
update, "Xite and hype 'til reading's ripe."
To date, there are, at a rough estimate, at least 597 paperback-lengthed pages of Frangles prose written, with about 147 posted. We of course got "597" and "147" by taking a decent estimate of "600" and "150" and subtracting 3 from
each, just to make it sound like we keep a perfect record of every
single !@#$ing page. Only someone who reported "597" and "147"
would be competent enough to actually be genuine in their report, so
just play along that we've done so, when in actuality the numbers are
the general ballpark of "600" paperback pages written and "150" posted.
(For reference for those who can't count (we had to use a
calculator), that's 25% of the written material posted).
Incidentally, another excellent sign of our report being genuine
is the total lack of having to having to put the above numbers in bold
seeing as how that would be a dead giveaway of our honesty. So,
once again, you can see it's definitely worth it to check back now and
then and join the suspenseful mystery of when we'll get around to
hitting the big "POST ALL" button in the main office no xiter's
bothered to notice yet.
As far as Blorkk goes, the medium of skit-prose
is so bizarre that there's really no solid way of relaying how much
material there is. A skip skit (that is, a "skit-prose skit",
also just a "skip", no relation to the main character of Writer's
Bricks named "Skip") is more like a poem than prose, with incredible
focus on each individual line and how they connect and self-interact.
Imagine a single ten-page poem that can be sliced and re-arranged
into thousands of permutations of sub-poems that are all standalone
works without the others, and that still are a solid foundation for
even more than that to
be inserted into. That's the idea of the skit-prose of Blorkk
("hard to blite but a breeze to breed"). Only so much of it has
been posted, for a bunch of bullshit reasons:
1. Just to edit skit-prose requires special software, which we're still writing, but an early example of which is here.
To change the color of a single dialogue depth would require a
thousand manual html edits in between the others, and to delete a
single line of dialogue would require editing every single page of
text that dialogue exists in. Even worse is if the skip dialogue
depths are written to be shifted around in various ways, which would
require some type of real-time php shit that nobody with the time to do
it knows how to do yet. That is, rather than reading depth 1,
then depth 1 & 2 together, then depth 1 through 3 together (as
things are now), the reader could re-arrange depths at will, say, only
depths 1, 4, 8, and 23, which would require real-time html to be
generated rather than stored. 2. We're lazy. 3. We'd rather be Frangling. 4. It's more fun to hype skit prose than to write it.
As far as anything else goes, material on Xangles itself (here) has been almost nonexistent for all the above reasons since the start of this update, but oonnnce again, could be extremely thorough and lively and growing if we bothered putting up anything. Some xiters have noted, "If Xangles stuff is all hype and no show, then what better place to not even hype anything than the main page!" This is why we work on Frangles and Blorkk so much. Or why at least somebody does, if XFBS7
altogether isn't just a stray AIM bot who got bored and wandered away
from reporting news and weather in favor of something more challenging.
Oh, and above everything else mentioned, there's about ten gigs (literally) of raw high res fractal wallpaper sitting around that just needs to be shrunk and cut and posted. Note that a single 12,000 X 12,000 bitmap--the largest render Fractal Explorer
will allow (a free fractal generation program from which all the
Xangles, Frangles, and Blorkk artwork is done) is a couple hundred
megs, so two or three full backgrounds take up a full gig of disc
space. If you're wondering what that's for, just think of how
digital televisions, monitors, and cameras are always increasing their
resolutions (the number of pixels crammed into a certain area of
space). The higher resolution the better quality the picture; so
clearly this could continue to infinity. There's always value in
being able to store and express more pixels. Like that, a fractal
can be rendered to indefinite precision, by either increasing the
number of iterations, or rendering a larger fractal then shrinking it
down when done.
Once again, getting those to you is not so
much phobia of our "POST ALL" button as it is the extra work it takes
just to cut, resize, store, tag, hue-alter, post, etc, those raw
fractals into exquisite polished downloads for all monitor sizes.
But they'll get there, just like everything else. (You wish).
We'll end with our usual urge to check back now and then as all
this junk is posted, a promise that continuously evolves from being a
baseless guarentee to one quickly gaining credibility as more and
more is posted. This month it was 67 pages of Frangles, next
month it could be 67 backgrounds or phylical thesis, who knows!
To keep up with Xangles' progress, check here for once-a-month summaries, and check the Frangles updates page (frangles.com/updates) for constant day-to-day progress with all Xangles, Frangles, & Blorkk stuff, as Frangles it's the most active Xangles project and any new XFBS7 material posted (prose, backgrounds, whatever) will be posted there the day they're posted.
September 1, 2009
The idea of Xangles
is to be a saga of sagas. Part of that vision relies heavily on
lofty, ridiculous hopes of Xangles' vast and infinite potential as time
goes on. Xangles as it is now is like a small starter business
run by a couple brilliant-but-idiotic business junkies with some cool
ideas for how to inflate it into a really big deal, or an author
writing their first book with the dream of developing a solid
hallucination that it will one day be a best seller, or a few
philosophy majors founding a University for Unreasonable
Expectation of the Practicality of Studying Philosophy. Xangles
is a vast, ethereal, psychotic oasis for a wonderful world of worlds,
and if it never amounts to anything more than a whole bunch of random
s@!#, well, at least it worked.
Hence, as you can see there are many areas of Xangles unupdated, as much of Xangles is a template
for future possibilities. But make no mistake, Xangles is a
heavily active and involved project. A lot of that work is like
building a giant subway or highway system that you won't fully see
until the whole thing has been opened up (like in a couple billennia),
but we post as much readable (and downloadable) material as we can,
like opening up small sections of the completed subway or highway
system as they become finished.
Now if your highly honed
Xiter-bullshit-excuses-for-not-doing-a-damn-thing mental warning alarm
is going off, be assured it's just a drill, and in full rancid
objectivity, only a small smidgen of our analysis as of today is actual
bullshit excuses. (Or so you now think). (See? That
was to throw you off). (We're still doing it). (The bad
grammar isn't helping.).. (Now you have no idea!
Mwuhaha--what do you mean that's not appropriate conduct for the
Xangles update page? Who the hell are you to--hey--what do you
think you're--smghrggh..).
The areas that have been worked on and updated over the past few months are Frangles and Blorkk. (Xangles sagas 1 & 2, respectively). The Frangles Updates
page constantly updated with all Blorkk and Frangles updates, so keep
checking back there to see what's new as stuff progresses. The
main Blorkk page also lists recent Blorkk updates, and the XFBS7
index has been a little behind lately but is eventually made up to
date, like this news page. As you can see, part of the problem is
in total hectic disorganization of exactly what goes where and how all
the areas (and potential areas) of Xangles, Frangles, Blorkk, and Squish7 (the foursome called XFBS7
for the moment, or XFBS7.net), integrate and separate, etc. As
businesses often merge and fragment, so do the giant general ideas for
the separate Xangles' artistic mediums (most notably right now, the skit-prose of Blorkk and the fractal fiction of Frangles).
Frangles
especially has been worked on heavily, though only a fraction of that
translates to posted material. The prose is up to about 450
standard paperback reading pages of prose, but only a quarter is posted
due to the dizzying headaches of organizing the material into official,
readable structures. Note that an enormous amount of the work put
into Frangles is that of inventing this entire new medium
altogether. This is a much, much bigger project than your usual
450-page manuscript. Frangles is an attempt to create the art of "fractal nonlinear
prose," which sounds complicated, but it's as simple as the programmer
knowing a complex language to design a very simple and friendly
interface for the user.
Just think of reading / watching /
seeing some book or film or painting that's easy to look at / watch /
read, etc, but that the artist has put massive work into
creating--brainstorming, researching, collaborating, drafting,
revising, etc, etc. Think how much brainstorming and work it
takes just to draft a screenplay, let alone all the work that goes into
producing the final movie that the audience simply sits down and enjoys
like donuts. Or that the surface level computer owner benefits
from by just clicking a few things. (But of course, if someone
wants to get more involved in the complexities of the Xangles artistic
mediums, they can do that too). We're the DMs, you're the players, and you can just have fun, or not, or whatever!
Yet,
since this idea of fractal fiction is an incredibly new thing, it's
extra hard to do that programming / designing, etc, like building
computers or making movies for the first time instead of simply making
new programs. So when you read through Frangles (and other Xangles
material), keep in mind that much of the work being put into it isn't
yet clearly apparent, as much of it is spent scribbling out plot and
character templates and time lines, and dizzying endless maps fleshing
out all sorts of complex plot intertwining that no one (to our
knowledge) has ever attempted in the history of American literature.
Part
of this journey even requires stopping to write software for Frangles
and Blorkk just to be able to edit and read the material!
Blorkk's skit-prose,
for instance, couldn't even be written without special editing software
to splice and separate the nonlinear dialogue depths. (Sounds
complex, but again, it's hard to write, and easy to read). So not
only do Frangles and Blorkk have much material not posted, but even the
design of the mediums and the software to be able to edit and read them
is more production going on that isn't readily visible, but will be
eventually.
This will all benefit the xeder ("Xangles reader")
and freer ("Frangles reader" or "fractal reader") more and more as time
goes on. As simple software develops, even this will become
available for the use of exploring the writing techniques that
themselves also take time to develop, or that might have other more
general uses for you. For instance, some primitive software to
insert a large group of text files into a couple html templates will soon eventually be available, letting a novelist post their book by designing an html
reading page, then allowing the program to insert all the novel pages
into it with different titles and links to the other pages, and so
forth, or just anybody in general who'd like some basic free software
to insert any kind of text files into html templates. Very simple stuff, but hopefully it will grow in complexity in time as Xangles evolves.
Again
remember, all the complexity of writing and "programming" the inventive
arts of the sagas of Xangles is simply on the writer's / programmer's
end; all the reader has to do is click left or right, up or down, and
all that effort put into rich plot construction will be revealed as
easily as sitting down and watching Fight Club or Memento
and watching a fascinating crafted structure work itself out like
cheesecake for the audience. Bottom line, nobody around here has
done a damn thing, so just keep hitting "Refresh" until you start
seeing through all our bullshit excuses for total incompetency, and
finally stop bothering.
August 1, 2009
Tragically,
the Xangles Monthly Update Project (XMUP) has suffered a second--and
possibly fatal--blow. The first was when xiter incompetence
landed a lack of a June update (other than the usual xiter bullshit
that Xangles is all real and hence subject to freak frwoa anomalies
that conveniently appear whenever a xiter has !@#$ed up or been just
plain lazy). The second occurred this month, when a xiter pointed
out that no progress was made on a better bullshit cover story.
Then a xiter inquired, "Why the hell do we need better
bullshit ones when real life freak frwoa anomalies do the trick?"
This made a lot of sense until someone realized the xiter
actually thought freak frwoa anomalies were real, instead of
the assumed suggestion that everyone begin acting as if they were until the mass hallucination caused the two to be indistinguishable.
This
seemed to nullify the assumed suggestion, until the xiter offered,
"Well how do you know I haven't already given myself some practice,
have already deluded myself into the harsh reality of freak frwoa
anomalies, and am unconsciously demonstrating a working example of the
technique?" The xiter was right, because quite clearly,
from either xangle, the xiter would have asked the exact same question,
so no one could decide which one to associate with. Someone
flipped a coin, but it hit a freak frwoa anomaly and there was nothing to do but relay the events of the meeting here in the hopes that posting a discussion about frwoa anomaly excuses would distract the xeer from the fact that there isn't one. However, Frangles and Blorkk of late have been continuously updated, so check the Frangles updates page and Blorkk.com main
page for up to date news on the only two known active Xangles projects
anybody that anybody around here knows about knows about. (Except
for XanglesPrime, but YouTube just doesn't count).
July 1, 2009
Xangles' progress over the past couple months has been accumulating a lot of raw material. It's up to about 600 pages of prose, plus a ton of unposted fractal artwork. It's mostly Frangles, Blorkk, and Squish7
material, the last of which is being re-molded to fit the structure of
Xangles (Squish doesn't quite know how he feels about being
fictionalized into a tacky franchise character).
Not a lot of that raw material has been published because of the
incredible need for pre-planning in designing fractal prose and
artwork. Consider that a standard novelist might spend a year
writing a book before it's finally published. A finished work of
art requires a structure that's often not apparent until a full draft
is written. In some ways, that need is exponentiated when writing
a structure of many, many novels and nonfiction material that's
all designed to ultimately create a massive, enormous single piece of
fractal nonlinear artwork (ultimately, it would be best to take fifty
years and finish and polish every single bit of Xangles material, such
as the 49-343 Frangles books, before publishing anything, but there simply isn't that much coffee in the world).
In other ways, a fractal structure actually it
makes it much easier to publish material on a regular basis. If
each part reflects the whole, then publishing one paragraph or story or
novel, is like publishing a microcosm of the entire whole. If a
creative story is drawn out from two character's points of view, then
adding the xangles of other characters and other sub-stories can be
accomplished in a fraction of the time. The goal of Xangles is to
expand continuously; to be made more in depth and thorough as time goes
on. One could say that part of the plot of Xangles is its own
evolution into a vast engrossing universe. Indeed, writers write
what's on their mind, and the primary conflict on a full time xiter's
mind is how exactly the hell this is going to work! Hence that
frustration actually works itself into the plot of Xangles.
(Imagine if Sauron's rage was fueled by the horrors of writers
block on his latest Meg Ryan screenplay).
Still, in order to
achieve fractal nonlinear artwork, a massive amount of planning and
designing is necessary, which is why not a lot has been published in
the last two months. The more you know about the structure of the
whole, the easier it becomes to write the prose. Work is being
put into the design; the type of work that makes the final product
easier to produce as time goes on. They say it would take
you a lifetime simply to copy down the music that Bach wrote.
Bach wrote creative harmonies almost at the speed he could think.
The most fortunate and visionary artists find ways of translating
the ideas in their head into tangible, corporeal forms as easy as
inserting "as easy as pie" cliches into website updates for sites
that are supposed to be radically creative and not use cliches at all
or run on sentences for that matter. Asimov wrote 400 to 500
books in the course of his life, because he had the vision of a
whoooole friggin' lot to say and create, and the rare skill of
outputting that as regularly as breathing, smoking, or jumping off a
cliff.
The goal of Xangles is to achieve that type of output,
except structure that output in a radical way. Imagine if Asimov
had organized all his works into a single, structured art piece!
That's the idea of seven cubed (343) Frangles books, and the vast interconnected realm of skit-prose of Blorkk.
Not just many many books connected via a vast structure, but a
nonlinear structure as well. A story that can be read in many
different ways from many different points of view, or angles, within
Xangles called "xangles" ("X-angles" or "any angle X"), and "frangles" (fractal angles).
Xangles
is like a literary equivalent of Boston's Big Dig--the biggest highway
megaproject in United States history--except it's under permanent
construction. Still, a lot of work has to be done before certain
completed areas are opened up for use, because there'll always be a
bigger area of the project as time goes on. Xangles is inspired
by the few artists to achieve an impressive over all structure over a
long period of time, such as Babylon 5. Joe Straczynski had a
vision in mind for the entire five year Babylon 5 television series,
and stuck to that vision as much as the market and medium of television
allowed him. Once he'd gotten enough of that structure and format
under his belt, He was able to whip out episodes like magic. But
even the harsh instability of the television medium ate at the Babylon
5 project. It was not promised a fifth year, and Straczynski had
to wrap up the major plot points of his structure much too early,
hurting the completeness of the final five year project. Even at
Babylon 5's beginning, no one could have known whether it would receive
a five year contract.
These cruel limitations of the harsh world of publishing and marketing is what Xangles
tries to overcome; to stay pure and passionate and true to a hopelessly
unachievable and absurd artistic goal. So please stick with us
and check back now and then and see how that turns out. The 600
pages of raw prose--plus much detailed fractal artwork written and
rendered over the last half year needing fine tuning--should result in
plenty to read soon enough.
...unless we're just completely bullshitting you to get a few check-back hits.
Time will tell.
June 1, 2009
The
June update mot or mot not have been deleted due to a freak space-time
anomaly linking the fictional character Darlene's computer
at the dawn of time with the real life servers at GoDaddy.com. This also mot
just be a bullshit excuse for not publishing anything this month, or,
more likely, xiter time has been very well spent on the constant
accumulation of raw material (prose, artwork, and blueprints), which
mot or mot be explained thoroughly in the above update.
May 1, 2009
The
infinite, vast and timeless May Xangles News Update project began a
month ago for the single reason that stopping with the very first
update would be just plain moronic. It's hence decided there
shall be a plethora of such monthly updates, quite fortunate for Xangles
because if the ambitious ongoing project (which has had no thought of
stopping whatsoever) continued without the updates, there'd be quite a
lot of confused xeaders (except the ones who actually understand
Xangles, and we have yet to meet one, mostly because we have yet to
meet anyone at all who actually reads this !@#$). If there was
such a person, they would probably notice the horrid lack of Xangles
book stores, pet stores, universities, publishing companies,
illegal fractal pornography websites, and fields of inverse logic
study at Harvard and MIT, that would probably exist by now if any xiter
was pumped with enough psychotic drugs to imagine the project was that
significant. As it is, it mainly exists as a planetary evolution
homework assignment of a remote net nerd krforb who has nothing better
to do than pimp it out until human brains start falling out so it can
finally go play some Angband five trillion.
We should have frangles.com
up very soon, so the two elderly flutons on Echelon-9 with
Alzheimer's who are actually reading the saga out of lack of
anything better to do than brush their imaginary dentures, can brush
assured that life will be a tad more interesting given the confusion of
having to remember a whole nother domain name instead of the
convenience of one. The most construction this month was on Area
51 of Xangles Blorkk. An Area 51 Introduction has been added as well as depth five and depth six. An
increasing frustration is how much of each saga's secrets to give away
and how much to hold back. Nonlinear fiction (stories fritten to
be read in many different orders and still be coherent) may make it
easier to post things at random as projects progress, but makes it much
harder to make key decisions about--and later revisions of--the
completed whole: the over all structure which can often hinge on
a keystone chapter, sentence, word, or even a single letter or
apostrophe (as you'll see in depth six).
Yet as Xangles borrows from all the art in society around it, it
tries to give back as well, so feel free to experiment with any of
those "secrets" (i.e. the creative literary techniques demonstrated in
the hundreds of pages of material), which is much more packed full of
fresh templates and writing techniques than a book of the same length
(which is another plus of the downside of distracted nonlinear writing).
The
entire Xangles network in all capacities contains about 400 pages
of material so far (what's being called XFBS7, or Xangles Frangles
Blorkk Squish7, for now). As it's spread over many domains and
very different artistic styles, a good site map and index are essential
for reference and for blinking quickly around the sites. You can
access the site map indefinitely at xfbs7.net soon (temporarily for now at squish7.com), and the full index of key terms at xangles.com / i (or xangles.com/terms) Temporarily you can also use the .net keywords okuaka, florbb, botorb, and krforb, to
get around (i.e. okuaka.net, florbb.net, etc), until someone finds
something more useless for them to do. (Like imploding a
whole ku somewhere). Recent updates will always be listed on the
site map so you don't have to refresh 400 !@#$ing pages looking to see
if anything's changed, and likewise the index of key terminology, etc,
will change as more stuff is added.
If
the writing techniques of any Xangles material inspires you, then in
regards to copyright, we feel
morality should come before legal details. So if you experiment
with
Xangles writing techniques, please
simply exhibit common sense courtesy and use Xanglic ideas creatively
for your own artwork rather than closely mimicking or parroting a
particular writing style or character, etc. Xangles adheres
closely to United States Fair Use law (see Wikipedia for an article, and TubeRights.org for Squish's take on Fair Use in regards to YouTube) and similar laws in other countries.
<Pik
or Kal, please insert a witty, inspiring, climactic May Update last
line here when you have time, and erase the memories of everyone who
reads this note and gets confused before you did. Thanks.>
April 1, 2009
The infinite, vast and timeless Xangles
project began a half year ago for the heavily guarded single secret
reason that the domain frangles.com wasn't available. "Xangles"
(pronounced "zangles") was the next coolest sounding word, and everyone
involved shrugged and figured it would work if we decided the word was
an intentionally brilliant creative addition to human vocabulary and
art. But since the title for the original seven-novel
project 'Frangles' was actually coined for a reason (condensing the
term "fractal angles"), no one knew what that mock intentional
brilliance was going to be. After that was given up on and we
were amassing the weapons of mass destruction we'd need to go to war
with Webster to change the spelling of the word "fractal" to "xactal,"
a fracolic dolphin named Kolphin swimming by the project in a parallel
frwoa suggested that 'xangles' mean any 'x-angle' or 'angle
x,' diminishing the poetic beauty of "fractal angle" to a dull
mathematical allusion, but saving us from an another unnecessary
literary war, a benefit eventually neutralized since we obtained
frangles.com anyway, now under construction.
Now having a meaning, what was to be done with it. At first we intended to just rename the Frangles
saga: seven humorous novels that are probably closest to the work
of Douglas Adams, except with a very unique structure never
attempted in Earth fiction, and a whole ton of creative fractal /
scientific / philosophical / religious themes. But "xangles"
ended up just sounding horrible when inserted in the prose because it
was written with the feel of the cooler and more addictive sounding
word. With that in mind, it seemed a greater loss and just plain
dumbass to rename the whole saga because the domain name might never
become available. So we simply started the Frangles site
under Xangles, which brought forth the idea that Xangles
could be designed as a blanket site for other things as well. And
since there were other ideas on back burners for other sagas, Xangles
became what we're now calling a whole saga of sagas. If a saga of
seven interconnected nonlinear books was a good idea, why not
brainstorm--and create room for--a useless plethora of others?
So now we have some rough but solidifying idea of the structure of Xangles. Xangles 1 is the saga Frangles,
a seven book humorous fractal saga. Frangles takes place in our
known universe (Okuaka), covering it from the big bang to big crunch.
Xangles 2 is Blorkk (blorkk.com), the second
known universe discovered, being an innovative new medium for comedy
and writing: skits meets prose meets confusing circu-linear time lines,
intermixing some of the Frangles universe and philosophy and
terminology. Blorkk is a whole new thing, rather than writing
seven more books of the same Frangles nonsense. Xangles 3 through 5 are just some vague brainstorming for sagas, and Squish's homepage Squish7 has become Xangles 7,
lamely disguising a web page that happens to be already there as a whole
creative project, imagining that someone's website could be a saga in
and of itself. Partly because Squish contributes billions of
dollars and resources of his Internet fame and fortune and writing to
the project (and hence the themes of Xangles intertwine with his some
of his own material and philosophy), but mostly because Squish 7 is a
perfect other name for Frangles: a "squish" of seven books.
Hence at the moment of Squish's assassination, Xangles will
finally be fully complete in its domination of super neat domain names
to host the whole damn thing, and Squish's lame ideas about world
domination via armies of purple platypi and so on, will be out the
window.
Since it's still very early in the evolution of all
Xangles projects and none are published yet off the Internet due to the
insanity of most publishers requiring at least one full manuscript
before signing a thousand book multi-saga contract, we're still
having fun tweaking the ideas of what will happen with Xangles and Frangles and Blorkk and Squish7
and everything else. We're thinking Frangles can actually be even
more structured than originally planned, perhaps each book could be
composed of seven novellas, written so that the various
novellas--exactly as they are--can be switched around in different ways
to make new books, increasing the non-linearity and flexibility of the
saga. Of course this idea could continue ad infinitum, why not
write so that every other page forms a saga; or every other word, and
so on, but who the flying hell has that kind of time or is that bored.
But in any case, it's going the structure will be exponentially
more interesting than anything done before.
Recently we've added a whole bunch of fractal wallpapers
('cause who wants to read about fractals when they can just see a
picture and get the whole idea anyway, and nobody on Google is
searching for "free fractal fiction"), and are starting to post some
fractal videos on YouTube, at YouTube.com / XanglesPrime.
So check back with everything now and then to see what's new, or
just do some drugs and hallucinate the project out of a lazy unrealized
brainstormed bunch of crap, to the reality of a full, genius,
addictive, and marketable project. We know we have.
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