Friday Flash, part 2

And so the grand experiment begins...

As I prepare to join the Fridayflash frenzy it's been a bit of a struggle to decide how to handle it. The first question is, "what story to tell?" I'm pretty sure I've worked that one out. My intent is going to be to join the ranks of the vampire story tellers. (Don't worry, this definitely won't be Twilight.) The second question is, can I do all of this from an iPad? The second question is more of a personal experiment on my part. I've been playing with the iPad as a laptop replacement for a few months now. If you've followed the tech media at all, it's pretty clear that the iPad is a great media consumption device, but not such a great media creation device. My experience would generally agree with that. Even here on blogspot, it appears that functionality is missing. Sure, I can submit blog posts (which I unfortunately can't do on my main site since Apple hasn't produced an iPad version of iWeb.) But, it doesn't look like I can add graphics without editing the html. That appears to be a limitation of mobile browsers. Maybe I'm wrong. I'll try it with my next post.

In the meantime, I'll be writing this story in Quickoffice on the iPad. I seriously considered Pages and Documents to Go, but I finally settled on Quickoffice. Is it the best of the choices? Probably not. However, I'm hoping it'll do the job and since I already have Quickoffice on my phone, I can get a feel for the whole mobile computing experience. Graphics, if any, will be produced in Photoshop and then transferred somewhere so I can post them here on the iPad.

As to the story, I just finished reading Twilight. No disrespect intended to Stephanie Meyer, but vampires are bad guys and they are mean. They burn in the sunlight, they are repulsed by garlic, and they are killed by stabbing them through the heart. If I were a purist, I'd insist they were stabbed through the heart by a wooden stake. As it is, I'll settle for them being stabbed through the heart. One of the things that has bothered me in recent years about vampire stories is the removal of the religious element. Vampires are also repelled by crosses. I'm not sure if I'll head in that direction or not, but I wanted to make a note of it here.

So, this is VERY early in the planning stages. There will be rewrites, revisions and probably a lot of rambling. Hopefully, as the process continues, there will also be a lot of discussion.