Random Day snippets
Why I sometimes hurt characters (or kill one off, even):
Because I really dig seeing conflict and resolution. It's part of the whole writer thing, not to meantion, the constant reinvention of existance according to overcoming new conflict has been how I lived my life. I dont' nesciarily want my characters to hurt, I want them to experience suffering and overcome it. It's a Buddhist sort of thing. Life is suffering. Without the experience of suffering, there is no true joy- and no reality. If you have your chars in a world where there is always happiness, and there is no conflict, you get no realism.
And that long babble can also be summed up as:
Because it's damn fun.
Why I deserve the Darwin Award
I managed to cut myself on spagetti sauce today. Not the jar, the sauce. Some of it had dried around the lid, and formed a lethal projectile which entered my finger and sliced it fairly badly whiile I was trying to open said jar. I wonder if I am the only human being on the planet stupid enough to be injured by a tomato product?
Bob explains Sci Fi vs Fantasy to Ry
You start talking about "your soul turns into this when you die, and yaddayadda Gaia", that's fantasy. If you're talking "Oh, there's an alien and its splattering people to bits!", that's science fiction.
So the last one doesn't invole me in the slightest, but it has been that sort of day. Other amusing moments around the house this week have included an ongoing debate among the kids as to Slippy of Star Fox (the video game) 's sexuality. And whether or not, if he is gay, if Star Fox is his boyfriend.
We've also taken down the Christmas decorations, and talked to the one member of the family who is in the psych ward. The rest of us just occasionally belong there.
Because I really dig seeing conflict and resolution. It's part of the whole writer thing, not to meantion, the constant reinvention of existance according to overcoming new conflict has been how I lived my life. I dont' nesciarily want my characters to hurt, I want them to experience suffering and overcome it. It's a Buddhist sort of thing. Life is suffering. Without the experience of suffering, there is no true joy- and no reality. If you have your chars in a world where there is always happiness, and there is no conflict, you get no realism.
And that long babble can also be summed up as:
Because it's damn fun.
Why I deserve the Darwin Award
I managed to cut myself on spagetti sauce today. Not the jar, the sauce. Some of it had dried around the lid, and formed a lethal projectile which entered my finger and sliced it fairly badly whiile I was trying to open said jar. I wonder if I am the only human being on the planet stupid enough to be injured by a tomato product?
Bob explains Sci Fi vs Fantasy to Ry
You start talking about "your soul turns into this when you die, and yaddayadda Gaia", that's fantasy. If you're talking "Oh, there's an alien and its splattering people to bits!", that's science fiction.
So the last one doesn't invole me in the slightest, but it has been that sort of day. Other amusing moments around the house this week have included an ongoing debate among the kids as to Slippy of Star Fox (the video game) 's sexuality. And whether or not, if he is gay, if Star Fox is his boyfriend.
We've also taken down the Christmas decorations, and talked to the one member of the family who is in the psych ward. The rest of us just occasionally belong there.