Recap 2

[anthon1]

Let's get up to speed, shall we?

Saturday was a really rather wonderful day: I slept in late, read a really rather excelent book, ate the best apples I'd eaten all year, and saw Helen. What more could a guy want? :P

Okay, so maybe those need some elaboration...

The book was Captain Corelli's Mandolin (#16), and was definately one of the best

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The photo was of me telling stories, in my hat...

[anthon1]

Has that got anything to do with the recent law passed in the UK about copyright expiration dates? I heard about it, but am still hazy on the details.

They've changed the law? :P

(I remember that there was a lot of discussion about it one point, because of this very thing; but I don't think there was a change in the law - although it is sounding more and more familiar...

*feels very ignorant*)

This takes a little bit of backstory. Essentially, whilst on a youth camp, a very wise man (who was no older than nineteen) taught me how to tell stories. Not read them or write them, but tell them; out loud, to an audience watching and listening - or, if you're in the dark, ust listening - and, if you do it right, hanging on your every word. Constructing stories to tell is a very different skill to writing short stories, because they work in very different ways, and, as you're not reading them, the exact language can't be quite so crucial in the same way, and different things are important - and constructing them requires thinging in a certain kind of way. I'm not desperately good at it (and I don't get much practise, anyway), and I often just caniballise bits of the very strange, very wonderful short stories in Sandman; but the first story I told I made up myself.

Essentially, I wanted to write something about growing up (and about what maturity is and where it starts, I suppose, if I want to sound literary) and decided that a good vehicle for this would be found by tapping into the 21st century's mythological pantheon of emblematic characters...

...and using Peter Pan. :P

The copyright to the J M Barrie original was held by Great Ormond Street Hospital, but is nearing the end of its life, which is why they recently published a sanctioned sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet, whilst they could still benefit from it; pretty soon, Peter Pan will be a free agent, and thus usable as a stock character...

(...how do I always end up writing such insanely long replies? :P)