hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away

[musesfool]

Man, why does the phone always ring right after I've taken a bite of my bagel?

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I am just past my period, so I shouldn't be all emotionally weird anymore, but this morning on the bus, I got super-teary while listening to "Racing in the Street," which, admittedly, is a fucking depressing song, but still. I had to put on "Thunder Road" right

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[inksheddings]

I'm not the only one who does this, right?

Can't say I've ever done this, but thank you for the morning amusement. *g*
(And I mean that in the nicest way possible, lord knows I have enough interesting habits that keep my brain occupied. :P)

[musesfool]

Well, I'm always happy to amuse. I mean, I amuse myself, which is generally my goal, but I'm usually pleased to amuse others, as well. *G*

[svilleficrecs]

I saw someone else on my Flist had done it and I needed a break from writing. :)

It's fun, though, no?

[musesfool]

It was fun. I think my first lines have improved a bit over the years.

[ignipes]

I start about half of my stories with somebody waking up, and not one of them is intended to be a dream. (The one time I did start with a dream I didn't start with the character waking up, because that makes no sense to me.)

Obviously I fail at knowing proper writerly things. Again. I also fail to care, because nobody has ever told me, "But I thought it was all a dream at first!"

[musesfool]

I dunno. It's one of the few "rules" I remember explicitly from reading something or other on writing. (another one - avoid having your characters contemplate themselves in the mirror!)

If what you do works for you, keep doing it.

[ignipes]

It just doesn't seem like very useful advice to me. I mean, if your reader is really, truly not certain whether or not the entire story is a dream and you don't intend that ambiguity, you have much bigger problems than how the first scene opens. If there's really that much doubt, I feel like whether or not a character wakes up (which people do every day, sometimes more than once) is the least of the story's problems.

[musesfool]

Well, I didn't say it was particularly useful, just that I'd internalized it and stopped starting stories with someone waking up. It would be very typical of me to adhere to the useless rules and ignore the ones that matter. *shrug*

[heidi8]

Randomly, while I was reading this I was listening to Catherine Feeney's cover of I'm On Fire. Do you have it and if not, do you want it?

[musesfool]

Oh, that'd be cool. Thanks.

[heidi8]

Enjoy!

Oh. And did I ever mention that my cousin is Max Weinberg?

[musesfool]

Hee! I am not alone! I feel good about this. At least in Elderly Woman she's not the town crazy lady like in Crazy Mary.