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I'm listening to a CD I made up of all the british/celtic folk-ish stuff that peopel have sent me over the last couple of days. I'm trying not to giggle and think of it as "songs of the drunken potato rebellion" which was Michael's amusing derisive for such music, which he's always loathed.
Regardless, aside from the fucking book thing, I've had this probably novelette thing kicking around for a while that I had thought was historical fiction, certainly it could be written that way, and then realized listening to this the other day, that if I combined the ideas in that with the novel or at least decided they took place in the same world, then the novel would now have a lot of active, as opposed to just mental, drama (as it stands now it's unpleasantly claustrophobic. I'm not sure anything happens outside in it, ever). All of which makes it a harder (and longer, gods help me) book to write, but probably a much easier one to sell in a mainstream sort of way. I can't tell if this is a discovery I'm happy about or one I'm miserable about truth be told. It also helps clarify the somewhat nuanced supernatural element of the world by unifying them. As now the world has magic that's about three steps to left the steampunk tech, and myth that's probably closest in tone to the way I describe The Usual Suspects as a horror film -- it's not, but the sense of terror and dread and pervades everyone dealing with what may or may not be myth is very real, and I've an embodiment of something similar, but more chaotic neutral, as the center of the novelette. Unifying them clarifies a lot. The question becomes where: the novellet has a main girl, and the novel has three important female characters. Does it get a fourth, or is the girl of the novelette in fact the backstory of one of the women in the novel? This is probably not cogent to any of you, except possibly the people who have heard very detailed ranting on both projects, which I'm not actually sure is anyone at all.
Meanwhile, what does it say that my religion column is getting a lot more comments than my romance one? Especially since most of the relgion comments arent' even agrny people yelling at me (which is what I was sort of hoping for, perversely, since on top of a flat fee, I get traffic-based money)?
I am not working on The Bourne Supremacy today, somewhat to my annoyance, but it's outdoors, so not that much to my annoyance.
When I finally managed to wake up enough to get up today I stretched for a really along time and felt like eventhough I recognized my body, it entirely didn't register as my own. It shows a purpose now, and at least to anyone with the same sort of weird observational habits as me (which might be no one) a potentially unsettling one. Hello. This is useful in a lot of ways. At least to my heart.
I really need new pictures.
One of the weird things about fencing is how it makes me feel a part of something, but also very removed from a lot of other things, sometimes, even it. But then, I suppose that's always the sort of place I am looking for, because I do go best there.
A lot of things in my life that maybe haven't felt normal ever suddenly are. I have a lot of power and weight and stillness, just rather abruptly.
Meanwhile, I can do all this cool stuff lately, and the tendons in my legs are still so tight I can't touch my toes. This is stupid. And must be remedied.
So anyway, off to work and then work shortly.
Regardless, aside from the fucking book thing, I've had this probably novelette thing kicking around for a while that I had thought was historical fiction, certainly it could be written that way, and then realized listening to this the other day, that if I combined the ideas in that with the novel or at least decided they took place in the same world, then the novel would now have a lot of active, as opposed to just mental, drama (as it stands now it's unpleasantly claustrophobic. I'm not sure anything happens outside in it, ever). All of which makes it a harder (and longer, gods help me) book to write, but probably a much easier one to sell in a mainstream sort of way. I can't tell if this is a discovery I'm happy about or one I'm miserable about truth be told. It also helps clarify the somewhat nuanced supernatural element of the world by unifying them. As now the world has magic that's about three steps to left the steampunk tech, and myth that's probably closest in tone to the way I describe The Usual Suspects as a horror film -- it's not, but the sense of terror and dread and pervades everyone dealing with what may or may not be myth is very real, and I've an embodiment of something similar, but more chaotic neutral, as the center of the novelette. Unifying them clarifies a lot. The question becomes where: the novellet has a main girl, and the novel has three important female characters. Does it get a fourth, or is the girl of the novelette in fact the backstory of one of the women in the novel? This is probably not cogent to any of you, except possibly the people who have heard very detailed ranting on both projects, which I'm not actually sure is anyone at all.
Meanwhile, what does it say that my religion column is getting a lot more comments than my romance one? Especially since most of the relgion comments arent' even agrny people yelling at me (which is what I was sort of hoping for, perversely, since on top of a flat fee, I get traffic-based money)?
I am not working on The Bourne Supremacy today, somewhat to my annoyance, but it's outdoors, so not that much to my annoyance.
When I finally managed to wake up enough to get up today I stretched for a really along time and felt like eventhough I recognized my body, it entirely didn't register as my own. It shows a purpose now, and at least to anyone with the same sort of weird observational habits as me (which might be no one) a potentially unsettling one. Hello. This is useful in a lot of ways. At least to my heart.
I really need new pictures.
One of the weird things about fencing is how it makes me feel a part of something, but also very removed from a lot of other things, sometimes, even it. But then, I suppose that's always the sort of place I am looking for, because I do go best there.
A lot of things in my life that maybe haven't felt normal ever suddenly are. I have a lot of power and weight and stillness, just rather abruptly.
Meanwhile, I can do all this cool stuff lately, and the tendons in my legs are still so tight I can't touch my toes. This is stupid. And must be remedied.
So anyway, off to work and then work shortly.
