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Jul. 2nd, 2006 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tjs_whatnotOkay, so I finished a short story and am feeling really good about my accomplishments today so I figured--it is now time to tackle the daunting task of putting myself out there in cyber space, once and for all. I have been putting this off for far too long, for much the same reasons that I don't keep a journal under my bed either...I don't want to be remembered for any of this drivel. Call it Twain-itis. (The man commented on the dump he took that morning and it was witty enough to make it into quote books for hundreds of years.) Who can live up to that kind of success? Who in there right mind even tries? Oh yeah, that would be me.
But then I read a book that really helped me out. I can't remember the title of it right now, but that's unimportant. It was a book of letters from famous people to their children. And with the exception of Twain (damn you Mark!) and surprisingly, George Bush Sr., they were all drivel. They were boring and chocked full of cliches and very few original ideas, they were common and everyday, and they gave me hope. If these people weren't afraid that their every sentence would be judged by the masses, than who am I to worry? I mean really, get over myself already!
So, here I am, with all my spelling and grammar mistakes, with all my cliches and unoriginality, unwittness...judge away!!
But then I read a book that really helped me out. I can't remember the title of it right now, but that's unimportant. It was a book of letters from famous people to their children. And with the exception of Twain (damn you Mark!) and surprisingly, George Bush Sr., they were all drivel. They were boring and chocked full of cliches and very few original ideas, they were common and everyday, and they gave me hope. If these people weren't afraid that their every sentence would be judged by the masses, than who am I to worry? I mean really, get over myself already!
So, here I am, with all my spelling and grammar mistakes, with all my cliches and unoriginality, unwittness...judge away!!
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Date: 2006-07-04 06:03 am (UTC)I always think storytelling is what i do for a living though, writing feels different and i have to make a concious effort not to channel the epic peoptry i normally work with?
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Date: 2006-07-04 05:21 pm (UTC)Seriously, you two make me think I should stick to editing. Or smut writing. Hee.
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Date: 2006-07-04 06:54 pm (UTC)you knw the more i think about that artist and his muse story the more i think it might end up being rather smut-heavy? eek!
I actaully used epic poetry quite a lot fro the colchian inheritance - esp the dream sequence, and i worked a lot of the linguistic stuff into the story. but when i'm actaull telling a story i'm concious of the rythm of the owrds more, and of the repetiton of certain phrases, like homer uses "grey eyed godees" for athena. I become more and more aware that this is a holding pattern - it allows you to think about what comes next while your mouth is on autopilot! you get it in norse and early english stuff like beowulf as well, and even though i tell my own interpretations of these i still use the linguistic tricks, i revel in them because they work on so many levels
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Date: 2006-07-04 09:07 pm (UTC)My entery for the summer challenge at ARWOW is turning into a muse smut. But then again, it seems nearly everything I've written in the last 10 months ends up in smut one way or another. One of the girls in my writers group suggested that I am in need of a good shag. That goes without saying.
Your storytelling sounds very cool. I bet the kids love it!
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Date: 2006-07-04 09:11 pm (UTC)storytelling is funn, but oddly enough when i do public events its the adults who come back time after time as much as the kids do. I got a bit upset at one roman do the other yearbecause an old lady came up and told me she'd cried for her dead husband at the end of my version of philemon and baucis
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Date: 2006-07-04 09:31 pm (UTC)And yes, a good shag is as elusive as, how did you phrase it? Finding a virgin for a dark revel?
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Date: 2006-07-04 09:14 pm (UTC)MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER ZAFFY!
Sigh. If only writer didn't equate poor, life would be better.
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Date: 2006-07-04 02:50 am (UTC)Welcome to live journal! Glad to see you posting. Did you get the bazillion icons I sent you?
By the way, if you are wondering who Sailor cat is, it's the red head from book club. :)
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Date: 2006-07-07 03:16 pm (UTC)Whatever else am I supposed to write about? Though honestly, I'd rather not think of BC Sr and sex in the same sentence.