I am woman
I got everything done today that I needed to do. I think I even did well on my Religion midterm, although I can't say as much for my short story. I even had enough time for a short nap before class, but I ended up writing the beginning of a new short story called "I'm Fine." It's very sugar-rushish, with multiple points of view and a ftm trans person. I'm trying to write about how everyone, absolutely everyone, has a flurry of problems, not just people with screwed up families, not just people who are depressed. The lack of problems in one's life can, for some people, be a problem. I'm not writing a 'boo-hoo I'm trans and no one understands me' story. Its not people's problems with the trans person, it's the trans person's problems accepting the fact that they are accepted. When he comes out to his girlfriend she is generally ok with it, and he doesn't know what to do with that.
Those aren't the only problems, of course. There are many, many more *wicked grin.* I'm just trying to avoid clichés at all costs. But writing about an issue that has only recently his semi-mainstream culture makes it a bit easier to avoid clichés because they haven't developed yet. But seriously, someone shoot me if I ever even thinking about writing a story where one of the lesbians dies tragically. *shakes head* hopefully this one will be better. I'm also playing with the use of biblical names, but that might just be because there's a LOT of them floating around in my brain right now. And the story is going to be written almost entirely in a ranty monologue style, which is always fun. And by the end nothing will be resolved. Yay.
Those aren't the only problems, of course. There are many, many more *wicked grin.* I'm just trying to avoid clichés at all costs. But writing about an issue that has only recently his semi-mainstream culture makes it a bit easier to avoid clichés because they haven't developed yet. But seriously, someone shoot me if I ever even thinking about writing a story where one of the lesbians dies tragically. *shakes head* hopefully this one will be better. I'm also playing with the use of biblical names, but that might just be because there's a LOT of them floating around in my brain right now. And the story is going to be written almost entirely in a ranty monologue style, which is always fun. And by the end nothing will be resolved. Yay.