But not a real lighthouse, that's cruel
It's a snowy kind of day. I'm making pizza again (waves to northernveil), because I had leftover yeast and tomato sauce, and because I like using the oven in cold weather.
I've seen TTT a couple of times now, and had trouble articulating my reaction. Fortunately, Dork Tower was kind enough to do it for me. One thing I do think is cool, though, is the way the word hope keeps recurring in conversations with and about Aragorn. There is no hope. There is hope. Onen i-Estel Edain, and I'm a dork.
Was thinking a bit about posting works in progress, and audience response to same. I've posted WIPs, and I've posted series of stories that were self-contained plot-wise but had an ongoing emotional story arc type thing, but these days I largely prefer to finish writing before I post anything (sometimes well before I post anything *g*). And part of that is continuity and what-not, being able to go back and add in and take out stuff to make sure the plot makes sense and the big romantic scene doesn't look like it was cut and pasted from a different story. But part of it is that I can't stand being second-guessed, and when I say can't stand, what I mean is that any time anyone tells me what they think I should do, my first impulse is to do the opposite, and possibly stick my tongue out and say nyah nyah nyah.
This is something of a personality flaw. It also messes with stories. If people read an ongoing work and say "ooh, it's obvious that A and B are going to hook up once they get to the lighthouse!" you'd think I'd be glad to hear that I've managed to build the romance successfully, but it just makes me want to have A fall in the sea and drown and B marry his old highschool sweetheart. I think it's because once it looks as though people know what's coming next, I lose all impetus to tell the story. They know what's going to happen, anyway.
So to save my sanity, and to save myself from writing a lot of really unmotivated plot twists, I stopped posting WIPs. Now I'm wondering if people who do post WIPs are completely indifferent to having readers second-guess them, if they've never thought about it, or if they like it and get a kick out of it. I get why readers like series and serials and speculating on what comes next--I do it myself, though usually not in front of the writer, even though I suspect that anyone who shares my issues wouldn't post in parts and anyone who does post in parts wouldn't mind. I guess some people enjoy the interactivity, and feeling that the readers are involved and interested?
And I do get some use out of this contrary tendency, on a smaller scale. When I get stuck, I hand the story to a friend and say "Help!" and she says "Oh, hey, it's obvious that A is going to drown and B is going to go back to Mary Sue," and I say "Ha, that's what you think," and they go to the lighthouse and live happily ever after.
I've seen TTT a couple of times now, and had trouble articulating my reaction. Fortunately, Dork Tower was kind enough to do it for me. One thing I do think is cool, though, is the way the word hope keeps recurring in conversations with and about Aragorn. There is no hope. There is hope. Onen i-Estel Edain, and I'm a dork.
Was thinking a bit about posting works in progress, and audience response to same. I've posted WIPs, and I've posted series of stories that were self-contained plot-wise but had an ongoing emotional story arc type thing, but these days I largely prefer to finish writing before I post anything (sometimes well before I post anything *g*). And part of that is continuity and what-not, being able to go back and add in and take out stuff to make sure the plot makes sense and the big romantic scene doesn't look like it was cut and pasted from a different story. But part of it is that I can't stand being second-guessed, and when I say can't stand, what I mean is that any time anyone tells me what they think I should do, my first impulse is to do the opposite, and possibly stick my tongue out and say nyah nyah nyah.
This is something of a personality flaw. It also messes with stories. If people read an ongoing work and say "ooh, it's obvious that A and B are going to hook up once they get to the lighthouse!" you'd think I'd be glad to hear that I've managed to build the romance successfully, but it just makes me want to have A fall in the sea and drown and B marry his old highschool sweetheart. I think it's because once it looks as though people know what's coming next, I lose all impetus to tell the story. They know what's going to happen, anyway.
So to save my sanity, and to save myself from writing a lot of really unmotivated plot twists, I stopped posting WIPs. Now I'm wondering if people who do post WIPs are completely indifferent to having readers second-guess them, if they've never thought about it, or if they like it and get a kick out of it. I get why readers like series and serials and speculating on what comes next--I do it myself, though usually not in front of the writer, even though I suspect that anyone who shares my issues wouldn't post in parts and anyone who does post in parts wouldn't mind. I guess some people enjoy the interactivity, and feeling that the readers are involved and interested?
And I do get some use out of this contrary tendency, on a smaller scale. When I get stuck, I hand the story to a friend and say "Help!" and she says "Oh, hey, it's obvious that A is going to drown and B is going to go back to Mary Sue," and I say "Ha, that's what you think," and they go to the lighthouse and live happily ever after.