politics and Gormenghast

Observe my campaign apathy: I wandered into the room as Hilary Clinton was wrapping up her speech and Bill Clinton walked on. Then I left again before he really started talking.

Honestly, I've already decided who I'm voting for. Stop distracting me with all this campaign blather! < /sarcasm >

Also, I'd like to know what's up with the writing gods, since I managed over 3500 words of a Gormenghast fic yesterday, which is, I think, about the most I've ever written in a single day.

Why can that sort of thing not happen with my original works?

(It's an interesting challenge to switch from writing vaguely in the style of JKR to writing vaguely in the style of Mervyn Peake. He uses commas instead of dashes, for one thing, and goes on quite a lot about the ambient weather and crumbling masonry, for another. He also uses a viewpoint more akin to third person omniscient than JKR's fairly tight third person focus on Harry's thoughts and reactions. I don't do third person omniscient very well, so this is a learning experience for me. It is fun to be able to dip into any character's thoughts, though, instead of being limited to just one person.)

politics and Gormenghast

Observe my campaign apathy: I wandered into the room as Hilary Clinton was wrapping up her speech and Bill Clinton walked on. Then I left again before he really started talking.

Honestly, I've already decided who I'm voting for. Stop distracting me with all this campaign blather! < /sarcasm >

Also, I'd like to know what's up with the writing gods, since I managed over 3500 words of a Gormenghast fic yesterday, which is, I think, about the most I've ever written in a single day.

Why can that sort of thing not happen with my original works?

(It's an interesting challenge to switch from writing vaguely in the style of JKR to writing vaguely in the style of Mervyn Peake. He uses commas instead of dashes, for one thing, and goes on quite a lot about the ambient weather and crumbling masonry, for another. He also uses a viewpoint more akin to third person omniscient than JKR's fairly tight third person focus on Harry's thoughts and reactions. I don't do third person omniscient very well, so this is a learning experience for me. It is fun to be able to dip into any character's thoughts, though, instead of being limited to just one person.)

dentists and Gormenghast

Dentist appointment today. I can still taste the toothpaste residue in all its nauseating metallic horror. I don't mind holding my mouth open for half an hour, but is it really too much to ask for decent-tasting toothpaste?

Also wrote more Gormenghast fic. So far I've dropped Cora and Clarice on their heads as infants (which might explain things...), killed Sepulchrave's father (although that's canon so it doesn't really count), killed both of Steerpike's grandmothers, killed his maternal grandfather, estranged his paternal grandfather from the family, and burned his father and siblings to death in a fire (those who didn't go splat when jumping out windows to avoid the flames). And poor Steerpike isn't even born yet! (So this isn't really Steerpike torture; it's all aimed at his mother, who, while she may be a manipulative and somewhat domineering woman, doesn't deserve a bit of it.)

I wonder why it's so fun to kill fictional characters? Not that I don't feel sorry for most of them -- I liked writing them and they were good people for the most part -- but it's kind of fun to watch the body-count grow. And it's interesting to see how much emotional pain and loss a character can endure before she snaps.

Hmmm. "Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." Perhaps that's it.

dentists and Gormenghast

Dentist appointment today. I can still taste the toothpaste residue in all its nauseating metallic horror. I don't mind holding my mouth open for half an hour, but is it really too much to ask for decent-tasting toothpaste?

Also wrote more Gormenghast fic. So far I've dropped Cora and Clarice on their heads as infants (which might explain things...), killed Sepulchrave's father (although that's canon so it doesn't really count), killed both of Steerpike's grandmothers, killed his maternal grandfather, estranged his paternal grandfather from the family, and burned his father and siblings to death in a fire (those who didn't go splat when jumping out windows to avoid the flames). And poor Steerpike isn't even born yet! (So this isn't really Steerpike torture; it's all aimed at his mother, who, while she may be a manipulative and somewhat domineering woman, doesn't deserve a bit of it.)

I wonder why it's so fun to kill fictional characters? Not that I don't feel sorry for most of them -- I liked writing them and they were good people for the most part -- but it's kind of fun to watch the body-count grow. And it's interesting to see how much emotional pain and loss a character can endure before she snaps.

Hmmm. "Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." Perhaps that's it.