That’s what
it feels like. Three heroes, three storylines, important events happening to
all three of them, then two of them finally meeting. The writer needs to make sure the appropriate events have happened in the previous ‘days’ of the
novel to all three before the two meet. Like being handed an
open origami and instructed to fold it back in shape. I fold here, fold there,
nothing falls in place at first. I think I finally got it right. Then I
started writing here. I am not so sure I did get it right. If I discover yet another
discontinuity, I’ll start cursing and re-arranging again. It won’t be nice.
The lower back
is okay. Not so sure of my brain after three eclipses in a row.
There is a
lot of sex in my book(s). Not so sure if this is good or not. There is no sex
in the writer’s life, so it all has to balance out, I guess. And some of the
sex in my book is not the kind of sex I’d like to have, thank you very much. My
idea of sex has me still alive after finishing. Some of my heroes aren’t that
wise.
A penpal
told me to read the books of a writer specialising in vampires. Read an online excerpt. I found it mind-blowingly inane. It was like discussions between
women happening at the hairdresser’s, but with vampires wearing kilts and getting
married as their subject matter. I mean seriously WTF.
Afterwards, I was
suggested the books of another vampire writer by another penpal. Turns out I had
read a longish story by her just a few weeks ago and it was something between a
mediocre video game and the average ‘Vampire: the Masquerade’ session I used to
play. Which in turn means, nothing I’d like to read more of any time soon.
Then
I was told to take a look to the site of another writer. It was like reading a
teenager with a 500 word vocabulary describing having sex. It was all ‘wonderful’
and ‘tickling’. With boredom for me and orgasms for the heroine. Now go figure.
It’s been a
while since someone in the novel has been beaten black and blue. I think I am
going to go and do just that. Since I can’t beat black and blue some people I have in mind, someone else will pay. :D
2 comments:
That may be one of my favorite things about being a writer - getting to do to people what I can't do in real life. :)
As for your penpals' suggestions, I find most vampire stories largely over-rated. I guess they can't all be Anne Rice.
I couldn't really follow the links. You're possibly aware that I am in the mobile, what means that some places couldn't be opened. I trust your likes on vampires' issues. I really do.
It has been a while since I have written anything new. I have spending a while typing old poems (I handwrite them first) and I have some old stories I need to go through. Those same old stories that I started as a teen and have been wanted to go through for years. Meh! Seems that I will never ever be a good writer. At least when I painted, I used to get immediate relief...
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