Maybe if I post something, it'll kickstart the story-writing mechanism in my head. Right? I have to have a piece ready for my kid's fiction class tomorrow morning, and I'm not exactly filled with inspiration. I'm not quite boiling over with creative energy. I'm not at all prepared.
But I've been determined for a while now (it's been a while since I've faced a real deadline), to write something for that particular class that isn't written for that particular audience, if you know what I mean. Because the creative writing department's concept of ideal kid fiction doesn't have much in common with what I liked to read as a kid. And I have a bad habit of writing what I think a specific audience, (in this case about 12 people in a tiny room) will approve of, no matter how much I personally dig it. Which is lame. So I'm working on that.
Just not, uh, working very hard.
Instead, I keep thinking of starting projects that'll take a lot of time, like organizing my roll-top desk and storage closet! Creating a new stacking system (?) for the books that won't fit on my shelves! Buying proper frames for friends' comic art and hanging them on walls! Watching all eleven hours of The Civil War by Ken Burns and not letting myself draw in my sketchbook during any of it!
Some of which I've actually begun. But I get antsy knowing I should be writing. I can't even be properly masochistic when a deadline's looming. It SUCKS.
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For the record, I would really like to see some of your regular fiction. (Mine is terrible and I should just give in and write gay romance novels forever.)
I think, and this might just be me... but I think the kid lit class is a good place to take chances. I do know the feeling of 'writing for the 12 people in the tiny room,' but... I would LOVE to see you write something more for you. Push some buttons! Work those boundaries! Maybe even draw some pictures? You're good at pictures!
comment = too long. boo, Jess, boo. But yes. Write on. Ha ha. (boooo)
No comment can EVER too long.
For serious.
Gay romance novels have my regular fiction beat, because they know how to reach a climax (or 20) while my stories sort of dwindle out around page 10.
Maybe I could do cover art for gay romance novels! Hip young ones! And I could use the faces of people I know for reference!
Better yet, I'll just photoshop something together right now...
Claire
I hate you! Well actually I love you but you never let me read any of your juicy stories! Is it because i call them juicy stories? When does our story come out? Ah never mind you must have sent it to the publishers already.
I wish you were home because there is a pound cake in my freezer (like the ones on Saturna) and I want to eat it but I would much rather have you on the phone while I am eating it since that would make it feel more like being at Saturna which I am convinced is never going to happen for me!
I think I am a little too enraged to be typing anything here let alone the 20-something page paper I must return to now.
P.S-Next Tuesday night still good?
Emlers
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