Comments | faeriemaiden: all of my posts are about nano and work

faeriemaiden

all of my posts are about nano and work

Nov 10, 2008 22:05

Good heavens, my characters will not behave. I have just discovered to my horror that Mr Caruthers has shed ten years and gone and fallen in love with Evangeline. What on earth shall I do? (I hadn't planned to have any romance in this novel, drat it! Also, because I am apparently terrifically vain, I imagine my novels as though they are finished, ( Read more... )

grr argh, nano oh help oh help, the astonishing adventures of me, the evangeline story, pen in my hand, i love people, i didn't take your stickers edward, lord what fools these mortals be, the writing life, job

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suangelita November 11 2008, 04:38:14 UTC

YAY FOR THE REMOVAL OF EDWARD!

The problem is there are all these bus stops near where we live and all over LA. They have big posters of upcoming movies. They have big posters of EDWARD AND BELLA. And so I'm driving along and driving is nice when I don't have some sodding wanker swerve in front of me or do something stupid, until *WHAM* the creepy guy is staring at me. Of course, they're always placed at the lights that turn red and I have to STOP AT.

faeriemaiden November 14 2008, 04:48:38 UTC

That is terrible. Terrible, I say! EDWARD CAUSES CAR CRASHES. HE IS EVIL AND MUST BE DESTROYED.

Also they moved the display with the Twilight calendars so it is right in front of the register: ergo, I get to look at it for four-hour stretches. ARGH. So far I haven't sold any yet, however...

suangelita November 14 2008, 15:51:19 UTC

Okay, that's horrible that you have to stare at it for four hours straight. Fortunately you haven't sold any. Can you imagine accepting MONEY for one of THOSE.... THINGS?!? *is appalled*

spockodile November 11 2008, 09:15:52 UTC

I'm pretty amused that when Mr Edward departed, he was replaced by Satan's Disney's Heidi's Minions. Of all the replacement possibilities, it had to be them.

Course, it could also have been something like this: http://tinyurl.com/2o8nbg

But that would be far less plausible.

faeriemaiden November 14 2008, 04:47:08 UTC

YES, THAT WOULD BE LESS PLAUSIBLE. :p

lostacanthus November 11 2008, 09:51:26 UTC

lso, because I am apparently terrifically vain, I imagine my novels as though they are finished, published, and have at least a tiny fan following,
looooool I totally do that too! xD I think, "Who would fans ship if this were popular?" And I build my relationships around that, lmao. Sometimes I purposefully don't do relationships, expecting someone to be "Oh, I'd totally ship that!" or I make it so there are multiple possibilities on purpose. Cause people ship anything.

Ha, I'm really sad.

faeriemaiden November 14 2008, 04:41:42 UTC

Heeee! I get all worried about people shipping characters I don't want them to ship, and imagining the wars fought in my name, and how people are going to be all "HOW DARE YOU NOT HAVE HER END UP WITH HIM OMG" and it is positively ridiculous.

Also? Sometimes I interview myself in the mirror. D:

lostacanthus November 14 2008, 06:26:41 UTC

IT WILL BE EPIC OMG

WHO DOESN'T???

missbaxter November 11 2008, 15:30:11 UTC

Mr. Caruthers, of course, sounds like a fossilising gentleman because he is stricken with nervousness at the proximity of Evy. At some point, he'll break down and descend into passionate language, I presume (because I am an optimist, and because he sounds exactly like a secret swashbuckler?) And re. Christian names, I suppose you could always steal from Austen's Mr. Knightley, who doesn't ever really get referred to by his first name (so much so that I couldn't even tell you what it is.) And now I shall go make icons stating that I'm an Evy/Caruthers fan for when your book is all published and shiny and there are shipwars...

faeriemaiden November 14 2008, 04:46:24 UTC

But he is absolutely a secret swashbuckler! He has a Slightly Disreputable Past due to having got into a great deal of trouble in his rather more madcap youth (though I am not entirely sure what that was, but probably a lot of not-good magical messing-about, and...shoplifting? I don't even know. What were Victorian punks like, anyway?), and I suppose he has repressed himself a lot to keep himself from going back to old habits, but despite his rather bookish appearance he can probably snap your neck without very much trouble. (I have never had a character with a Hidden Past before, except for one who was the main character in a very rubbish novel and that doesn't count because the audience knew everything anyway -- so I feel justified in exploiting this trope, of which I have always been fond.)

I believe he might be turning out to be an Owen. He still wants terribly to be Rupert but that would be going Too Far.