Rambling about what's in my head.
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kippurbirdI can has art supplies?
Yes I can!
I bought about $45 worth of art supplies today. Most of the money went to markers. Really, really nice markers. That bleed a lot. I imagine they won't do that on the marker paper. They also have fumes. Happy fun times!
And I got marker paper and a color wheel and spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out how I'm going to carry it all - with my colored pencils and other stuff - to class. I gave up eventually and will try again later.
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My brain has been fluttering with ideas lately, which is better than it has been in the past couple of weeks. It hasn't settled down with anything coherent yet.
One is a novel about Alec with his Gary Stu-powers. I'm thinking of calling it "The Adventures of Alec Troven, Gary Stu" but I haven't a clue as to what the plot would be. The big problem with this is that Alec is a Gary Stu with unlimited power. How do you write a story about that? I guess it would be something that deals with something his powers can't handle.
I got the idea from reading "How to survive in a Science Fictional Universe" by Charles Yu. The book tries to be meta-textual and play with the idea of narrative and things that are common in Science Fiction stories, but in my opinion doesn't quite work because I don't give a shit about the narrator. The guy is trying to be an Arthur Dent everyman but he's ... dull and uninteresting.
So I was all "I could do a hell of a lot better meta-textual with Alec who already has no concept of the fourth wall."
The starting line I came up with was , "I woke up next to a woman who wasn't my wife, but she didn't know that."
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Co-author mentioned that we had a rather important "What happened to the mouse" moment in the Urban Fantasy which I need to fix.
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mixed_muses let me figure out what happened to end World War II since they don't have an "atomic age".
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I have applied for state disability insurance.
We have talked to my Social Worker and she says that it sounds like I have an open and shut case for discrimination.
We may end up going for workman's comp.
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Does anyone want the paper egg?
Yes I can!
I bought about $45 worth of art supplies today. Most of the money went to markers. Really, really nice markers. That bleed a lot. I imagine they won't do that on the marker paper. They also have fumes. Happy fun times!
And I got marker paper and a color wheel and spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out how I'm going to carry it all - with my colored pencils and other stuff - to class. I gave up eventually and will try again later.
---
My brain has been fluttering with ideas lately, which is better than it has been in the past couple of weeks. It hasn't settled down with anything coherent yet.
One is a novel about Alec with his Gary Stu-powers. I'm thinking of calling it "The Adventures of Alec Troven, Gary Stu" but I haven't a clue as to what the plot would be. The big problem with this is that Alec is a Gary Stu with unlimited power. How do you write a story about that? I guess it would be something that deals with something his powers can't handle.
I got the idea from reading "How to survive in a Science Fictional Universe" by Charles Yu. The book tries to be meta-textual and play with the idea of narrative and things that are common in Science Fiction stories, but in my opinion doesn't quite work because I don't give a shit about the narrator. The guy is trying to be an Arthur Dent everyman but he's ... dull and uninteresting.
So I was all "I could do a hell of a lot better meta-textual with Alec who already has no concept of the fourth wall."
The starting line I came up with was , "I woke up next to a woman who wasn't my wife, but she didn't know that."
-----
Co-author mentioned that we had a rather important "What happened to the mouse" moment in the Urban Fantasy which I need to fix.
Role playing on
mixed_muses let me figure out what happened to end World War II since they don't have an "atomic age". Oh sure, fine go into territory that's still being hashed out between the narrator and their co-author. World War II was a bit different considering that Germany was - is - a big hole in the ground thanks to an incident in the 1400s-ish.
That being said!
"The US gathered it's strongest warmages together and dropped a firebomb on Japan sending it through a portal. Unnnfortunately it killed a lot of the mages from the sheer energy expenditure involved and there was some nasty backlash in New Mexico. The fae weren't too happy about it either, since it scorched some of their territory and they nearly lashed back at us.
"However since the US still had a larger population of warmages trained in such a thing and no one knew how they developed the portal to send the firebomb through it, it basically ended the war."
He looks thoughtful.
"I've seen the New Mexico site. Lots of sandstone turned into glass."
Is this better or worse one must ask.
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I have applied for state disability insurance.
We have talked to my Social Worker and she says that it sounds like I have an open and shut case for discrimination.
We may end up going for workman's comp.
----
Does anyone want the paper egg?
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:35 pm (UTC)See:
Just about anything by David Eddings
Perry Rhodan
The Ambivalent Magician by Simon Hawke (IMO, an excellent example of metatext)
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Date: 2011-09-02 05:56 pm (UTC)I have to say when it comes to thinking things through Alec isn't the best of them.
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