More distractions

[altivo]

Good thing I have that rug on the loom. I can go pound it for a few picks to empty out some frustration. Not exactly writer's block, because I know what I want to be writing. The problem is too many threads at once, and (unusual for me) I'm having trouble focusing on one at a time

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[songdogmi]

To paraphrase the old saying: Write in haste, edit at leisure.

Easy for me to say, I'm not doing NaNoWriMo. (Almost did, but I counted six days where no writing could've been done, and I only had a tenuous idea to write. Maybe next year (he says, again).)

Good luck. I read the sample on your NaNo profile. It looks like it'll be very much worth reading when it's done.

[altivo]

Thanks. This idea keeps growing, unfortunately, and is getting quite out of control. The psychological effect on me is chilling too. I dreamed all night about being trapped in a militant right wing underground right here in the modern day USA. That's the consequence of trying to plumb the depths of Stefan Ulf's thinking and behavior. He is a real piece of work, the like of which I fear we are unfortunately starting to see for real in many contexts.

[songdogmi]

Sounds like you could get to 50k words and be only 1/3rd of the way through... does that sound right?

I haven't read a lot of your writing, but I got the idea that you usually don't get quite as dark as you seem to be getting this time. Of course, that's good, because it makes it a growth experience. (No! Anything but that! :) I wonder if this sort of thing happens to authors like Clive Cussler or Tom Clancy when they start working with dark, even evil characters.

[altivo]

Can't guess about Cussler, I don't know his work well enough.

Clancy though... He seems so far right himself that probably what would bother him would be my kind of hero. ;p

Stefan's "evil nature" is not evil by all standards. He violates my conscience and values badly, but it's obvious that we have lots of people here in the US who would support and agree with him if it were presented to them in the right context. Evil comes of his goals, and part of it was his intention, at least in his own era, though he considers that evil to be good.

He would never have been able to grasp or imagine the society a century later in which his dark thoughts produce an intense echo, though.

[cabcat]

I'd help but I can't be villainous without sounding like one of those comedic bad guys.

[altivo]

This guy is a political atavist who wants to turn back the social clock to the "good old days" using any means necessary. It's easy for me to condemn him, but hard for me to think the way he does. I have to do both.