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Jan 13, 2016 17:56

Playing a fun game called "but WHY does that upset you and what precisely IS this emotion" a lot at the moment ( Read more... )

writers are the opposite of people, mental health, derek has the crazy, writing, borderline personality disorder, something is wrong in my head, editing

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wolfy_writing January 13 2016, 18:21:55 UTC
It sounds like a lot of other people acting nice to you would quickly create bad situations, and you needed to protect yourself? And after a lot of "You're an awful person if you fight back" you kind of absorbed "awful person=being allowed to fight back"? So a big chunk of your brain is continuing to run "This is the badness signal, oh no, what kind of monster am I? Fuck it, I'll be the kind of monster that fights back." And when the situation's not like that, it creates a weird mess?

This the book we discussed? Which bits are likely to become history?

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apiphile January 14 2016, 00:54:05 UTC
"Weird mess" is certainly one way of describing me. :P

This is the epidemic book I wrote in 2014. It was contemporary at the time, and with the way politics, the law, London landmarks, and technology tend to race on ahead, it risks becoming redundant fast.

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wolfy_writing January 14 2016, 17:33:14 UTC
Yeah, stuff shifts fast. (I've been thinking about not-too-distant-future technology, and I keep catching myself writing unintentionally retro stuff.)

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apiphile January 14 2016, 17:38:26 UTC
Pass the Parcel became alternate history instead of near future with alarming alacrity. I'm beginning to understand how Warren Ellis must have felt in the early noughties.

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wolfy_writing January 14 2016, 17:50:53 UTC
In Isaac Azimov books, he assumes atomic power is going to be in everything, including household devices, electronic books are devices that hold one book each, and somewhere after the galactic empire falls, someone introduces a computer that can turn voice dictation into actual words.

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