Work's a plateau today, only infrequent ripples running along the surface, often generating interference patterns. Thoughts? Not collecting here, somewhere else away from my head.
Planned finger-talking for the evening so I can input the story's opening into my machine at home, I have a rough idea what the ending's going to be and I'm thinking I might give myself one week starting today to build the first draft. Might stretch that to a week and a half, taking into consideration various meatspace obligations and situations. It doesn't have a title yet. I don't know. There are aliens in it.
Also going to dump music onto Mother Box and update the flash-drive with the writings.
[EDIT - DEAR GOD, We have a copy of Julie Taymor's Oedipus Rex production on DVD at work, I've got a hold on it, I'm suppressing the urge to drool over the case...]
Comments (3)
How are you with titles? Do you like coming up with them? What's your process? Sometimes they just blast into me, but mostly they drive me up those proverbial walls.
Posted by caroline | March 2, 2007 12:40 PM
Posted on March 2, 2007 12:40
I have been looking for that Oedipus Rex and also for the 1984 version of Antigone. Maybe I will have to journey south to watch them.
Posted by Ekim | March 2, 2007 5:44 PM
Posted on March 2, 2007 17:44
I've been looking for that Oedipus ever since I first watched Taymor's Titus.
Caro - Titles are completely irrational entities. Sometimes the title comes first, or it emerges spontaneously from the story, but this is the third beast, where the story goes unnamed and becomes a bit belligerent until I can find one that suits as a working title. They're a bit of a pain.
Posted by ben | March 3, 2007 9:29 AM
Posted on March 3, 2007 09:29