backstory babble (but no actual backstory)
one of our clients at work is having problems with a leaky roof, so all day i've been typing letters and emails about penetration. (sometimes "water penetration".) you know where my mind has been.
the story i turned in to writing group has a supporting cast that's probably too big for the five pages i submitted. and this isn't counting the sister of one of the characters, or the guy who owns the gallery, or his boyfriend.... (i was telling clockwork_fool about it last night and she commented on all the people. i just babbled all over myself and didn't let her get a word in anywhere. and then i had to link her to a bunch of imdb pages so she'd know who everyone was.) either i have, like, three people in the whole story (see: threesomefic) or i have a cast of thousands. and a lot of times there's even backstory, which i think always amazes one of the women in writing group. and half the time i want to say "what? i contain multitudes. :D " and then of course i want to talk about the multitudes.... not the actual story, but all the stuff behind the story.
(once when i went to london i spent kind of a lot of quality time over dinner telling ephemera all about nash's parents. this was after the quality time spent discussing the various reactions of the ot4 to modern art and the slide installation at the tate modern.)
i've mentioned the iceberg theory of writing, right? (it's where the actual story you tell is the little bit poking up above the water, but all the other stuff you have to know is the big mass of ice under the water.) i like to talk about the iceberg you can't see, rather than the icicle you can. i know i'm not alone in this.
the story i turned in to writing group has a supporting cast that's probably too big for the five pages i submitted. and this isn't counting the sister of one of the characters, or the guy who owns the gallery, or his boyfriend.... (i was telling clockwork_fool about it last night and she commented on all the people. i just babbled all over myself and didn't let her get a word in anywhere. and then i had to link her to a bunch of imdb pages so she'd know who everyone was.) either i have, like, three people in the whole story (see: threesomefic) or i have a cast of thousands. and a lot of times there's even backstory, which i think always amazes one of the women in writing group. and half the time i want to say "what? i contain multitudes. :D " and then of course i want to talk about the multitudes.... not the actual story, but all the stuff behind the story.
(once when i went to london i spent kind of a lot of quality time over dinner telling ephemera all about nash's parents. this was after the quality time spent discussing the various reactions of the ot4 to modern art and the slide installation at the tate modern.)
i've mentioned the iceberg theory of writing, right? (it's where the actual story you tell is the little bit poking up above the water, but all the other stuff you have to know is the big mass of ice under the water.) i like to talk about the iceberg you can't see, rather than the icicle you can. i know i'm not alone in this.