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Jan. 24th, 2011 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinNews For Today
So, last night my mother emailed me and Jack called me at almost the exact same time (phone rang as I was reading the email) because I'd kind of had a low profile online over the weekend. I've been distracted by a hard-to-pin down story that I've wanted to write since Wednesday, and I eventually realized yesterday that what I have in mind isn't really something that works as a third segment in a folk tale story, it's a considerable project.
This is a lizardfolk story, one that has been "translated" by human missionaries. I want to do it up properly, incorporating what I've established about their culture and language, and show the parts that have been simplified or altered or misunderstood by the human tellers.
I believe that what I have in mind is within my capabilities, but it's not worth letting it eat my brain and life right now, when I'm working on the also sort of pretty ambitious leap forward with the main story. So it's being tabled for now. Maybe inspiration will strike when I'm not expecting it.
Personal Assessment
Okay. Sleep was a bit delayed last night, so I took some melatonin. I've taken it every night since I realized my insomnia was back but it's still not an ingrained habit again. Slept from around 3:00 a.m. until about half an hour ago, so that's pretty good.
Dreams From Last Night
Fighting a bunch of enemies from the video game Borderlands using abilities described and rated in TSR's Marvel Super Heroes roleplaying game from the 80s. FASERIP!
Random Link
Daron's Guitar Chronicles began taking shape in the 80s and grew into an expansively detailed bildungsroman. The author, Cecilia Tan, couldn't find a market for it even after editing it down in size considerably. Now it exists as crowdfunded weblit.
It's a great example of two of the advantages the internet gives us: that it lets stories be as big or as small as they need to be, and that it helps connect readers to material that might speak to them but might would be considered very "niche" by the traditional publishing industry. (The internet also helps do this with traditionally published material, to a degree.)
Daron's Guitar Chronicles, in other words, is a long tale made possible by the long tail.
(Tip of any one of my innumerable hats to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tithenai for inspiring the "long tale" wordplay.)
Plans For Today
Next chapter of Tales of MU, and I'm going to do a bit of revising on Gift of the Bad Guy, primarily expanding (who am I kidding? I mean adding) descriptions and fixing incongruities. Good practice for when I do the editing pass through Tales of MU.
So, last night my mother emailed me and Jack called me at almost the exact same time (phone rang as I was reading the email) because I'd kind of had a low profile online over the weekend. I've been distracted by a hard-to-pin down story that I've wanted to write since Wednesday, and I eventually realized yesterday that what I have in mind isn't really something that works as a third segment in a folk tale story, it's a considerable project.
This is a lizardfolk story, one that has been "translated" by human missionaries. I want to do it up properly, incorporating what I've established about their culture and language, and show the parts that have been simplified or altered or misunderstood by the human tellers.
I believe that what I have in mind is within my capabilities, but it's not worth letting it eat my brain and life right now, when I'm working on the also sort of pretty ambitious leap forward with the main story. So it's being tabled for now. Maybe inspiration will strike when I'm not expecting it.
Personal Assessment
Okay. Sleep was a bit delayed last night, so I took some melatonin. I've taken it every night since I realized my insomnia was back but it's still not an ingrained habit again. Slept from around 3:00 a.m. until about half an hour ago, so that's pretty good.
Dreams From Last Night
Fighting a bunch of enemies from the video game Borderlands using abilities described and rated in TSR's Marvel Super Heroes roleplaying game from the 80s. FASERIP!
Random Link
Daron's Guitar Chronicles began taking shape in the 80s and grew into an expansively detailed bildungsroman. The author, Cecilia Tan, couldn't find a market for it even after editing it down in size considerably. Now it exists as crowdfunded weblit.
It's a great example of two of the advantages the internet gives us: that it lets stories be as big or as small as they need to be, and that it helps connect readers to material that might speak to them but might would be considered very "niche" by the traditional publishing industry. (The internet also helps do this with traditionally published material, to a degree.)
Daron's Guitar Chronicles, in other words, is a long tale made possible by the long tail.
(Tip of any one of my innumerable hats to
tithenai for inspiring the "long tale" wordplay.)Plans For Today
Next chapter of Tales of MU, and I'm going to do a bit of revising on Gift of the Bad Guy, primarily expanding (who am I kidding? I mean adding) descriptions and fixing incongruities. Good practice for when I do the editing pass through Tales of MU.
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