"Time to refocus before they wrap it up"
And now it's time for a cerebral entry in which I bitch about my writing/creative issues right now. Funtime.
So after a period of quite prolific writing, I've got Writer's Block again. I'm not sure it's entirely a bad thing. I didn't like the direction my writing had been going in the past few weeks. I'd gone from writing some great fiction to suddenly only highly personal, cerebral, stream-of conciousness, I've-Been-Reading-Too-Much-Joyce style writing. It was getting quite bothersome. Yet just yesterday I got a new idea for a script - a fictious one! But because of my Writer's Block I can't start actually writing it. That annoys me greatly.
I also made another realization when I got my new idea. The story is highly feminist (though I hope not interpretted as a Feminist agenda and seen for other merit too), and I think it's a great thing to write. However, I realized that I have yet to write anything with a male protagonist. I always use a female protagonist. Only once I wrote a story using the second-person "you" point of view in which I purposely didn't reveal the gender, but in my head I pictured the "you" as a female. I also realized that the most fully-realized fleshed-out male character I've ever written is for my Seishin Lupina (my superheroine) story - and that character is Azura's familiar, a wolf even though he can take human form later on. How sad is that? My only fully realized male isn't even human? So I think for my own creative good I need to write something from a male POV soon, but I have no ideas for it. You'd think I'd have done this before, given my adoration of so many male protagonists in literature like Hamlet or Gatsby. Seriously, what's up with that?
And that's another thing: why do I always relate more to males in lit/Tv/movies? I'd like to think that we're all people so the gender of a character shouldn't matter when you're trying to relate to them, but other girls don't seem to relate with male characters as much as I do and I've hardly met any males that relate to female characters. Man, I think I said it all that time I said about myself, "I have more gender issues than an anime character."
So after a period of quite prolific writing, I've got Writer's Block again. I'm not sure it's entirely a bad thing. I didn't like the direction my writing had been going in the past few weeks. I'd gone from writing some great fiction to suddenly only highly personal, cerebral, stream-of conciousness, I've-Been-Reading-Too-Much-Joyce style writing. It was getting quite bothersome. Yet just yesterday I got a new idea for a script - a fictious one! But because of my Writer's Block I can't start actually writing it. That annoys me greatly.
I also made another realization when I got my new idea. The story is highly feminist (though I hope not interpretted as a Feminist agenda and seen for other merit too), and I think it's a great thing to write. However, I realized that I have yet to write anything with a male protagonist. I always use a female protagonist. Only once I wrote a story using the second-person "you" point of view in which I purposely didn't reveal the gender, but in my head I pictured the "you" as a female. I also realized that the most fully-realized fleshed-out male character I've ever written is for my Seishin Lupina (my superheroine) story - and that character is Azura's familiar, a wolf even though he can take human form later on. How sad is that? My only fully realized male isn't even human? So I think for my own creative good I need to write something from a male POV soon, but I have no ideas for it. You'd think I'd have done this before, given my adoration of so many male protagonists in literature like Hamlet or Gatsby. Seriously, what's up with that?
And that's another thing: why do I always relate more to males in lit/Tv/movies? I'd like to think that we're all people so the gender of a character shouldn't matter when you're trying to relate to them, but other girls don't seem to relate with male characters as much as I do and I've hardly met any males that relate to female characters. Man, I think I said it all that time I said about myself, "I have more gender issues than an anime character."