loaf day

[erastes]

I’ve mentioned my love of the Teddypig before. Yesterday he lit further fires! I was mooching around online in the evening, and he came online and chatted and before long he’d entirely bunnied me for what I want to do next. Can’t tell you yet, of course!

I wonder at my entire inability to share online these days. I’m sure I used to talk about Standish and Transgressions in advance of them being sold, but now I find myself freezing and not sharing anything. Part of this is I feel you can’t be interested in a half formed idea, or a half written manuscript (believe me, it’s not from a sense of mystery to pull you in) and if I share too much you won’t be interested in it when it comes out. Another fear is that the people who can write a novel in two months would jump onto the era and idea I have. I’m not saying someone would steal the plot, I don’t believe that would happen, just that they might inadvertently think “oh that’s a good era to choose, I’ll do that” and then they go and write hugely similar by accident because I can’t write that fast. Daft I know. How one is supposed to build “platform” when one can’t talk about one’s books, I really don’t know.

Decided to skip dad’s today and go tomorrow instead so i can do some hard editing. It’s hard to get it done there – writing is easier, because I can touch type and stare out of the window or even attend to what he’s saying – but with editing you need to look at the screen and I find that quite tiring – probably the eyes? ETA I’ve spent the entire day on the sofa—obviously the body needed it.

I’ve started to watch Dexter, I’ve just watched four episodes of season one - and I’m a bit creeped out by it – which I assume is a normal response. A Dad teaching his son to be a killer is quite disturbing, however good a spin he puts on it! I am not too impressed by the main actor either, he’s got too much emotion for someone pretending to have human reactions – how does he know what human reactions are? And I don’t know if a man with that condition—which I’m assuming is some kind of Asperger’s – would know the difference between right and wrong anyway. But I’ll stick with it, it’s interesting. And useful, although I can’t say how.

Yes! I have the rare beige mountain egg.

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Comments

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

Dexter is supposedly a sociopath. And there are plenty of known sociopaths-serial killers, really-who faked emotion well enough and were all seen as charming.

And, since you already brought it up, it's not much of a spoiler...his father teaches him that, too. His father doesn't teach him to be a killer as Dexter was already killing small animals on his own. His father teaches him how to sublimate his desires and focus the urge to kill on those who "deserve" it and how to not get caught. I found the books a lot more interesting than the show.

[beckyblack]

I like the first book and the second was okay, but then the third one went off on this supernatural path that kind of bugged me, just because it sprang out of the blue. I mean if Dexter had maybe come to believe his Dark Passenger was a demon or whatever, then fair enough, a person can believe whatever the hell they like. But to have that presented as being the truth of what it is when there's no hint of anything supernatural in the first two books bothered me.

[beckyblack]

I love me some Dexter. I have the first three series on DVD and series 4 had mysteriously disappeared from the "unpurchased items" view of my Amazon wish list, so I suspect by Dec 25th I'll have 4 seasons of it. :D

Have you reached the stage when you'd happily slap his sister Deb silly yet?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes - and that happened pretty soon too, and i'm only on episode 7 - she went from whiny to idiotic and rude to sulky and entitled and now I think she's shagging the Ice cube murderer or whatever he's called. TSTL.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

write hugely similar by accident

I've done that. It's mortifying so I don't think you're daft at all. The problem is that plot bunnies derive from such odd places. For instance I bet quite a few people have been bunnied by the very nice young men in the Ralph Lauren "Big Pony" advert. I know I have.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

OO - i think i'll have to go and find this advert!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTzZjSlkK0I here you go.


mmmmm horsies - and pretty boys

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'm never worried about anybody stealing ideas. I was somewhat worried once when a book came out that was very similar to the one I've been writing (and I'm possibly way too open about my writing), but in the end, there are no new stories and no uncovered territories, and readers that dig your voice will buy it even if it's not completely and utterly unique.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Exactly - that's what i said - as I said above, I'm not scared of anyone stealing my ideas, i'd be worried about their mental health if they wanted to, but at the moment the genre is pretty wide open and I'd rather try a time period while it is, and not after everyone else who writes a book a month, has done it. takes me a year, after all.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I write at varying speeds. A month for one, two years for another. Depends on the book.

I never found anyone writing what i was writing, except by complete accident. The first year I did NaNo with the local group, our local leader was also writing a carnival novel, but hers was YA and sweet, mine was gay erotic horror. But there were places you could tell we'd done the same research.

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Dexter is one of my all-time favorite series. Do stay with it. I think it's brilliant, and hypnotic.

[clarelondon.livejournal.com]

*whisper* I feel exactly the same way about talking about WIPs. And add to the mix the fact that 75% of mine never ger further than a couple of chapters, so I'd just be storing up disappointment for everyone :).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

LOL - it's strange. I used to chat tbaout them all the time - but I think that's possibly before I thought I would ever get published, now I am, it raises all sorts of new worries!