nothing to see here, sadly.

[erastes]

Well the car has been picked up by a Neanderthal in a wife-beater. And so I'll expect a bill for a squillion pounds any time soon as they allegedly replace every moving part in the car. No faith in the motor trade? Moi?

Not that I ever would be, but there's no way I could ever be a singer. Certain songs just make me burst into tears in the first few notes. "I'll get by as long as I have you." for example, many arias. How do singers sing without crying?

Rainbow Reviews has an interview with me. Please ignore the male biography, I have asked them to change it!

The Borrowers have stolen an entire bottle of lemon squash. How the hell did they carry it?

I'm struggling with doing Mere Mortals as a Third person. It seems to want to be first person...I don't know if this is a good idea as I know many people say "i can't read those" but then I don't write for what people want, it's the story telling me what it wants - as a mystery it might work better to make the MC as clueless as he needs to be, and to not see what's going on around him. I don't know. I'll keep going a bit longer and see where it takes me. I don't think I'll be switching POV, so I don't see the point of doing it in the 3rd. *ponders* And I've suddenly realised I haven't mentioned windpumps once yet. *stabs self*

    

Comments

[aphephobia.livejournal.com]

Your writing method sounds like mine with knowing the end early and using it as a "point to get to." :)

Also, I'm awaiting Standish's arrival in the mail! I bought it online last week and am HANGING to start reading it. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's exactly how I work. I know a rough idea of the theme - know the end, usually write it first, and make up the rest as I go!

:)

Oh thanks! - I hope you like it!

[aunty_marion]

Obviously, the Borrowers first used a bit of borrowed hose-pipe (or other tubing) to drain the lemon squash off into a holding tank (probably a borrowed Tupperware box) elsewhere, then simply removed the empty bottle.

'S easy when you know how.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Darn them!!! too clever.

And I'm stuck here with no squash and no car. grrrr.

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

But still ... WHY?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well, it's double concentrated - it would probably last them for years!

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

Re the interview, when they correct the gender stuff, is this another typo?

The indolent and deceitful David Caverly is bored by his father’s farm and longs to escape, maybe to join the King’s Army, mustering at Nottingham. When his father brings a new apprentice, David Graie

You didn't really name both your characters David, did you? Weren't the pronouns confusing enough?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh bugger. I am so hopeless.

I can haz noo brain nao?

[tharain.livejournal.com]

::reads interview::

::looks speculatively at empty inbox, devoid of chapters::

WIND PUMPS. NAO!

When I was still singing, I recalled a simple maxim I learned from my voice teacher in college: It's my job to make the listener cry, not to cry myself. As an actor, the same thing. It's more moving to fight against the tears than to indulge in them. It's that struggle that moves the audience; that was certainly the case in Merchant. One night, I remember, I was unexpectedly moved at a new place in the "Grieve not that I have fallen to this for you..." monologue, and I had to stop speaking and control myself. It so devastated the stage manager that she couldn't watch me the rest of the performance.

OMG THE BORROWERS. OF COURSE! THAT is what always hides things on the baot! STUPID Tharain.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Now you know. Not raccoons.

:)

How do singers sing without crying?

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Easy. Crying TOTALLY f*cks up ones ability to sing. Any singer (most especially operatic) worth their salt is 99% ego. That's a powerful motivator.

Re: How do singers sing without crying?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I never used to be so weepy, but am more so since my mother died - dopey I know - I really enjoy singing and it's really pissing me off that I am being sabotaged this way!

:)

Re: How do singers sing without crying?

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Not dopey at all. My mother died in 1989, my father in 1995, and sometimes I still get blindsided by weepiness.

Re: How do singers sing without crying?

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

I understand. My father died in 2005 and I think it does make you more emotional somehow.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you on the being unable to sing without crying. For me, what it takes is TONS AND TONS AND TONS of rehearsal, and if I'm not actively rehearsing and practicing, the tear-jerkers will regain their ability to make me break right down and blow the singing. I am a hopeless soppy over the death scenes in Les Miserables and CANNOT sing "and tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake" without losing it, and "A Little Fall of Rain" is only manageable by concentrating on the technical aspects (ooh, Eponine's voice drops BELOW Marius' there, distract distract), and did I ever blog about the time that eternaleponine and I missed her highway exit because we were both singing and weeping in the car to the Dropkick Murphys' version of "No Man's Land?" Well we did.

Pick unweepy things to sing. Big rock and roll high-note belting songs. Boston's "More Than A Feeling" and the Who's "Baba O'Riley" are fucking fantastic for that (okay, I say this because I just nailed them playing Rock Band in front of a crowd).

But yes. Weeping and singing = totally unavoidable and totally frustrating.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

At first I couldn't sing ANYTHING - not rock ballads or big production numbers, so things have improved. It's now older songs from older films that hit me hardest because she taught me so many songs from the shows that many haven't heard of. I'll just keep trying! I know that she'd hate that it was causing me not to sing, because my voice was something she was so proud of. Thanks hun!

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Certain songs just make me burst into tears in the first few notes...

Evanescence's My Immortal does that every time I hear it. I've tried not to hear it of late.

Two more shifts and then I shall reappear in LJ/writing/Ebay land.