Odds and Ends

[red_satin_doll]

Good news: The cable guys came today and hooked up our internet service; we only had two days to wait. So now we're connected again, yay! I hope to be on again more often here - I've missed being here and getting to play. I need the release more than ever

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[comlodge]

Life is what influences our writing, let's us imagine the world our charachters inhabit. Glad things are pulling back together and that lifeline has now been re-established. The www is such a huge part of life these days. It's like having a part ripped away to lose it. :D

[red_satin_doll]

Which worries me sometimes - that I've become part of the problem, being addicted to the computer! (Have you watched Timer with Emma Caulfied? We watched it one Netflix before the fire, and it's a "romantic comedy" with a bittersweet ending and some actual ideas, such as the way technology influences us and becomes our master rather than the other way around.)

My sweetie used to hate computers and was quite the luddite (she owned a house "in the hollow" in West Virginia for two years back in the day with no electricity and running water!) Now she might as well have her ipod surgically attached. (And before the fire I wasn't any better when it came to the desktop 'puter!)

And 100% agreement on life influencing our writing - yes we're influenced by our culture, by the work of other artists (not just fan writers btw!) but if all there is to one's art is aping other arts and media without the breath of lived experience, it feels utterly empty at the core, don't you think?

[comlodge]

I'm addicted and trying to wean myself. Totally controls my life when I'm on it and I forget to play in the real world.

it feels utterly empty at the core, don't you think?

Yes, I do think. I'm always amazed when a young writer produces a book that speaks of age and wisdom. It surely means they were here before, because research can't possibly bring that. Then I remmebr that some get to live a very hard life, very early. :D

[red_satin_doll]

My best friend, Kendra Saunders, is a talented and accomplished novelist and she's so very mature and intelligent; we can talk about almost anything because she's had a hard-knock upbringing much as I have. And she's half my age and I'm rarely ever aware of it.

I remember on ff.net back over ten years ago when I discovered it - discovered fanfiction online, period - that I was shocked that the best writers in the catagory I hung out in were 13-22 years old, generally, some of whom became great friends. (And then there was the time I thought someone who was a 12 year old from the immaturity of their style turned out to be a thirty-something mom. Oops.)

Those young women and teenagers were all so intelligent, so wise before their time, and they wrote prose that continues to inspire me today because it spoke to me so clearly and honestly.

[comlodge]

I'd forgotten but I used to write quite a bit through high school. English was my best subject. I also read voraciously. I was into writing angsty, abstract stuff. Teenagers are a hotbed of feelings and hormones, I guess.

[red_satin_doll]

*lol* I used to show my mom my teenage poetry and she'd look at me very seriously and say "I'm worried about you." And I'd respond "Mom, I'm playing with language!" And after a while I stopped showing her my stuff. That's the thing about showing your stuff to a family member; they're not looking at the work, they're looking at you. (Although in retrospect, she was probably right to worry? IDK, she worries anyway.)

Given that I still love the angsty stuff, I hope that isn't a sign I've not grown up yet? (Which I now suspect is overrated anyway.)

[comlodge]

I've never shown my stuff to my parents. Don't think they would have understood.

DO NOT GROW UP - so over rated. It's why men delay it for so long. Then when they do they are terribly boring. I've tried it - so totally wrong! Lol!

[red_satin_doll]

good advice on both counts!

This week has left me feeling so old - I just want to play a little bit.

[comlodge]

Can understand that. Things will settle. :D

[red_satin_doll]

I hope so - thank you for the encouragement. *hugs*

[comlodge]

I can understand where you're coming from. Hopefully things will get a little easier now you're moved in. We all need to play. :D

[red_satin_doll]

Thanks!

I indulged in eurydice72's "A Stone's Throw from Yesterday" a few days ago (AMAZING true-to-canon characterizations and engrossing story) and have bookmarked some of my favorite videos by nvrbnkisst and afterthebattle, to try to rebuild my bookmarks!

[comlodge]

Bugger. You do realise that you sent me straight to eurydice72 on elysian fields and though I've read ASTfY I have to read it again because my memory is like that and I will also have to read the other dozen stories I just slotted into my bookshelf there! I was so hoping to get back to RL for a little while. Lol!

[red_satin_doll]

*dusts off hands* My work here is done....