you were driving circles around me
As I've been watching Community, I've been reading the AV Club write-ups, and I almost hurt myself laughing at this line in the comments: "I guess cartoon bandits are not positive cereal role models." Therefore, "cartoon bandits are not positive cereal role models" is my new LJ name.
Since I make my own fun, it's a good thing I'm easily amused.
I also started writing the Iron Man/Batman crossover yesterday, and mostly so far it's Tony and Pepper bantering. I could write people bantering for thousands of words and nothing else would ever happen, but I would be amused. Sadly, I'm told that thousands of words of banter do not actually a story make. Sigh.
At dinner the other night (not last night, though last night was also awesome fangirl dinner), the question of what version of Batman I'm thinking of when I write came up, and I don't really see the characters, so I was sort of like, "The animated version?" But in thinking about it some more once I actually started to write, I realized I was seeing Jon Hamm but hearing Kevin Conroy. *hands* I don't have a problem with Christian Bale physically - he certain has the requisite crazy eyes (and he'll always be Laurie to me on some level) - but I can't stand his fucking gravelly Batman voice. When I'm writing Dick and Jason, I hear NPH and Jensen Ackles, but if I have to visualize them, I'm seeing Matt Bomer and, well, I haven't really settled on anybody for Jason, but Ian Somerhalder comes close (he also has crazy eyes).
I'm just not a visual person or writer. I rarely pictured Remus and Sirius in my head while I wrote, and even after the PoA movie, I didn't picture Thewlis!Lupin or Oldman!Sirius. I'm much more about hearing the characters' voices than I am about seeing them, which I think is one reason Mal Reynolds is so easy for me to write - he has a very distinctive speaking style that clicks in my brain. Also Sorkin's characters - the stylized dialogue - the rhythm of it - makes sense to me. Characters who don't have that, I find harder to find my way in. It's learning those rhythms - the way Dean says "I get it, I do," when he's trying to convince Sam he understands Sam's point but doesn't agree, that helps me find the character more than the way Sam throws his arms out whenever he's emotional (physical cues are good but less helpful to the way my brain works).
I dunno. I know some people see stories in their heads like movies unfolding, but that only happens rarely for me. And when I do get a visual, usually it's like a still photograph, not a movie. For me, it's all soundtrack, and having to fill in the visual stuff, while easier than it used to be since I'm so aware of how I leave it out, is harder. It's why I work really hard to find the right detail instead of just piling a bunch of them on - mostly because I don't usually have a bunch of them to use. Otoh, I'm very aware of how stuff smells, so there is always a lot of smelling going on in my stories.
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But yes, awesome fangirl dinner last night at Spain, which I didn't even know was still in business, but man, it was pretty much exactly the way I remember it from the early 90s. And the food was good. Plus, they had tortoni for dessert, which has all but vanished from all the Italian restaurants I frequent nowadays, and I love me some tortoni.
Plus, midnitemaraud_r brought me a pair of glomitts! Because she is just that awesome and concerned about all my various glove issues in the cold weather we've been having. ♥
Man, I need this weekend so bad. Is it time to go home yet?
*yawns*
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Since I make my own fun, it's a good thing I'm easily amused.
I also started writing the Iron Man/Batman crossover yesterday, and mostly so far it's Tony and Pepper bantering. I could write people bantering for thousands of words and nothing else would ever happen, but I would be amused. Sadly, I'm told that thousands of words of banter do not actually a story make. Sigh.
At dinner the other night (not last night, though last night was also awesome fangirl dinner), the question of what version of Batman I'm thinking of when I write came up, and I don't really see the characters, so I was sort of like, "The animated version?" But in thinking about it some more once I actually started to write, I realized I was seeing Jon Hamm but hearing Kevin Conroy. *hands* I don't have a problem with Christian Bale physically - he certain has the requisite crazy eyes (and he'll always be Laurie to me on some level) - but I can't stand his fucking gravelly Batman voice. When I'm writing Dick and Jason, I hear NPH and Jensen Ackles, but if I have to visualize them, I'm seeing Matt Bomer and, well, I haven't really settled on anybody for Jason, but Ian Somerhalder comes close (he also has crazy eyes).
I'm just not a visual person or writer. I rarely pictured Remus and Sirius in my head while I wrote, and even after the PoA movie, I didn't picture Thewlis!Lupin or Oldman!Sirius. I'm much more about hearing the characters' voices than I am about seeing them, which I think is one reason Mal Reynolds is so easy for me to write - he has a very distinctive speaking style that clicks in my brain. Also Sorkin's characters - the stylized dialogue - the rhythm of it - makes sense to me. Characters who don't have that, I find harder to find my way in. It's learning those rhythms - the way Dean says "I get it, I do," when he's trying to convince Sam he understands Sam's point but doesn't agree, that helps me find the character more than the way Sam throws his arms out whenever he's emotional (physical cues are good but less helpful to the way my brain works).
I dunno. I know some people see stories in their heads like movies unfolding, but that only happens rarely for me. And when I do get a visual, usually it's like a still photograph, not a movie. For me, it's all soundtrack, and having to fill in the visual stuff, while easier than it used to be since I'm so aware of how I leave it out, is harder. It's why I work really hard to find the right detail instead of just piling a bunch of them on - mostly because I don't usually have a bunch of them to use. Otoh, I'm very aware of how stuff smells, so there is always a lot of smelling going on in my stories.
***
But yes, awesome fangirl dinner last night at Spain, which I didn't even know was still in business, but man, it was pretty much exactly the way I remember it from the early 90s. And the food was good. Plus, they had tortoni for dessert, which has all but vanished from all the Italian restaurants I frequent nowadays, and I love me some tortoni.
Plus, midnitemaraud_r brought me a pair of glomitts! Because she is just that awesome and concerned about all my various glove issues in the cold weather we've been having. ♥
Man, I need this weekend so bad. Is it time to go home yet?
*yawns*
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/289478.html.
people have commented there.