1. For fuck's sake, it doesn't matter if I start in present tense or past tense, I always end up staggering into the other tense halfway through and then I've got to go back over each-and-every sentence to make sure it all parses as being in the same fucking time frame, or the proper one or whatever. There's been a break in the continuum.
2. Why is that if I try to write my character when she's, oh, eighteen - which used to be pretty easy when I was writing this character - it doesn't click anymore? And why does it click when I write her in her forties when she's all exhausted and bitter?
3. It's weird to write characters from different stories into things, and they don't quite match up but it's like a parallel world version of them or some shit. Or it is, almost explicitly, just that.
4. Joy isn't here to play the damnable quotes game with even if Matt always got mad at us when we did play it in front of him, which was sort of endearing.
Comments (4)
Well Sinead O'Rebellion! Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behaviour ...
Posted by joy | December 20, 2006 4:16 AM
Posted on December 20, 2006 04:16
Now Debra, don't be bitter...
Posted by ben | December 20, 2006 9:29 AM
Posted on December 20, 2006 09:29
Why don't you all just ...fffffade away?
Posted by joy | December 20, 2006 3:38 PM
Posted on December 20, 2006 15:38
Hey Ben! I thought you might be interested in this place I have heard about:
http://www.writerscolony.org/
a writers colony in the US.
Posted by Rj | December 21, 2006 7:59 AM
Posted on December 21, 2006 07:59