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edenfalling) wrote2005-04-29 01:51 pm
edenfalling) wrote2005-04-29 01:51 pm
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Oh. My. God.
I was falling asleep on my keyboard (cough-induced insomnia, don't ask), and I suddenly figured out why "Aphrodisia" isn't working and has been dead on the page. I am using the wrong style, the wrong narrative voice, the wrong tone... anyway, I know how to fix it!
It must be told first-person by Neville, as a series of case notes as his experiments go progressively more haywire. And yet melancholy underneath that. Except deadpan. Except not.
Oh, I'm not explaining this well. But it will work. I can hear his voice now! And it will work.
...
It's turning into a really bizarre hybrid of screwball comedy and massive angst, but it also includes Neville going into experimental potions research (having realized that all of his screwups actually do something, instead of being magically inert, he just has to keep detailed notes when he tosses random stuff into cauldrons and sooner or later he'll make something useful by accident), and Ginny running a mail order business (well, owl order, I guess) selling miniature Venomous Tentaculas as house pets/guardian plants. Protect your desk from irritating coworkers! Keep burglars out of the house! Etc.
...
Yes, I know I'm crazy.
I was falling asleep on my keyboard (cough-induced insomnia, don't ask), and I suddenly figured out why "Aphrodisia" isn't working and has been dead on the page. I am using the wrong style, the wrong narrative voice, the wrong tone... anyway, I know how to fix it!
It must be told first-person by Neville, as a series of case notes as his experiments go progressively more haywire. And yet melancholy underneath that. Except deadpan. Except not.
Oh, I'm not explaining this well. But it will work. I can hear his voice now! And it will work.
...
It's turning into a really bizarre hybrid of screwball comedy and massive angst, but it also includes Neville going into experimental potions research (having realized that all of his screwups actually do something, instead of being magically inert, he just has to keep detailed notes when he tosses random stuff into cauldrons and sooner or later he'll make something useful by accident), and Ginny running a mail order business (well, owl order, I guess) selling miniature Venomous Tentaculas as house pets/guardian plants. Protect your desk from irritating coworkers! Keep burglars out of the house! Etc.
...
Yes, I know I'm crazy.
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