kippurbird | random brain dribble

I have been sick the past couple of days. It is unhappy fun times. I barely left my bedroom.

I'm feeling better now!

At least my head is clear.

I have decided to do the Alexander the Great story for NaNo. I just need a plot beyond "Stuff Happens". I'm thinking maybe of playing around with the idea that Alexander means "protector of men" and taking over the world really isn't "protecting men". Maybe evil fairies plotting to take over the world themselves. Alexander goes all >:| at this (partially because if anyone is going to be conquering humanity it's going to be him). Need a couple of good books on him. Yay library!

Paper idea: Superman as modern day Beuwulf. Wondercon is coming up (and it's in the LA area! so that's a lot cheaper!) and I'm thinking of submitting to the comics arts conference again.

Finished reading the Game of Thrones and started the second book, the title of which I can't remember and isn't near me to check.

Thoughts: Does Martian kill off someone in every prologue?

Yes. I know they're evil. Stop pouring it on into ridiculous exaggeration.

You killed him? Really? That was unexpected. Well, I guess I shouldn't get attached to characters, should I?

Sent a couple of article pitches to Wizards of the Coast for their magazines.

Thinking about changing Alec's lj name into something more interesting than "alec_troven". Yes. Spending the fifteen bucks to do it. Probably change it to "elementwizard".

Is anyone here good at making stuffed animals?

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Thoughts: Does Martian kill off someone in every prologue?

Not in A Storm of Swords--at least not directly. That one is a set-up for a battle that we don't see. A Feast For Crows and A Dance With Dragons, though--yep, people die again.

Oh, and the second book is A Clash of Kings.

I don't know if I should be disappointed or not that he does that. It seems sort of... trying too much for shock value.

Unfortunately now I keep on thinking of this.. I can't remember what it's from where a person is talking to a soothsayer type thing and all the soothsayer says is "DEAAAATH!!!" in regards to whatever the hero asks.

"So what if we..."

"DEAAATTH!!"

"All right, all right"

"DEAAAAATH!!"

I think I'm weird.

I wouldn't call it shock value, it's just realism. It's especially not shock value for the prologue deaths because you don't even really know them.

It's the fact that he's killing someone that we barely know that I'm calling it shock value. It's sort of a "hey look! I'm killing people! Woo! It's realistic!!! I R SRS WRITER"

Admittedly it does set the tone for the series of people dying for realistic reasons. I just read the prologue for the first book and picked out that the one guy was going to die. And I was right. And that was okay. A bit on the cliche side, but, it set the tone.

The second one felt more like it came out of nowhere. All, I've got you emotionally invested in this character and everything. OOPS! He's dead now. Oh well. WHEEE! I KILLED SOMEONE!!!

I don't think I'm quite the right audience for these books.

No, you shouldn't get too attached to characters, but don't let his reputation fool you: he does not kill many viewpoint characters. He prefers instead to grind their faces into broken glass with an iron boot.

(Yeah, I don't think you are his ideal audience. I'm not either. But the man has such a gift for characterization that I just - can't - stop.)

I've noticed the face grinding. It makes me wonder sometimes if he has some issues to work out or not. :D

(Oh lord the characterization. I can't stop either!)

Well I sort of liked the prologue to Clash of Kings, though I agree that the prologue to the first book felt a bit cliche. And ditto on the characterization. Martin has a knack for making characters. I actually noticed something similar in the first Dune book, as Herbert established a bunch of cool folk who then proceeded to die.

I'm not saying the prologue was bad in so much as to how it was written and what it was about, but it was "Wait... he killed someone again? In the prologue?"

That's fair. It's like" "I'm detecting a theme here..." :)

I think you should spork A Game of Thrones... I read all the books while I was stuck somewhere with a very, very limited library (and I'd already read all the Robert Jordan that they had...) and all I could think was 'Kippur'd spork this amazingly well...'
I really, really tried to give the books in question a fair chance but I just kept calling the inevitable seeming 'plot twists'... but I'm too lazy to spork...
>returns to lurking

You are the second person who has asked me this!

I thought about it, but realized that it's eight hundred pages of small print. I'd never get it done in a reasonable amount of time.

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