Comments | faeriemaiden: the things in my head

faeriemaiden

the things in my head

Nov 17, 2006 23:11

You know you are losing your touch when:

You write approximately half of a fic you have been trying to write without any success for about a month. You go to bed, and by the next morning have no memory of having done this ( Read more... )

linkage, pen in my hand, ficgerm, the writing life, the evangeline story, vampires

Comments 11

bonny_kathryn November 18 2006, 06:36:28 UTC

If you ever want to talk about vampires, I should rather like to. I have several (mutually conflicting) theories about what they are (including, but not limited to, the Dracula sort of vampire, the sort of human but drinks blood sort, and the sort that answers to the moon itself (which is a rather interesting but useless idea that states that vampires can only be out when the moon is up) and then there's the sort in Buffy).

Oh, and if you like stories involving vampires, you should read Dracula and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

faeriemaiden November 20 2006, 02:20:29 UTC

A friend of mine suggested the theory that vampires are demon-possessed, which sounded plausible and interesting, yes, but thematically, I just don't like the notion of vampires...not being themselves. For a satisfying story, a vampire's got to be its own being. Do you know of anything I could read on the subject, particularly something that dicusses vampire mythology from everywhere it's sprung up? (I read the Wikipedia article, of course, but there's only so much that stuff covers.) I checked my library, and the only book on vampires is apparently written by a complete mental case who thinks that the immortal bloodsucking sort is real, or is at least pretending that they are, and recounting legends and things as though they are rumours and/or historical fact, complete with various touched-up photographs and general creepiness of the unpleasant variety. :p ( ... )

bonny_kathryn November 21 2006, 00:10:50 UTC

I promise to write a lovely long response to this discussing the various types of vampires, with specific references where found. Unfortunately, I don't have the time right now. If I haven't written said reply in a couple of days, please bug me until I do. (Either by posting comments, or sending off an email to biolagal at gmail dot com).

midenianscholar November 18 2006, 18:47:11 UTC

Not really into vampires...at all... but sounds interesting.

And that site is EVIL. It sucks your brain into its addictive vortex.

wanderlight November 18 2006, 21:20:05 UTC

I haven't read many vampire stories besides Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire, precisely because I know they would be the sort of tripe that you cite up there in the Big Paragraph Of Doom. ;) If you were to write yours, though? I would be there encouraging and demanding you to hurry up every step of the way, and fangirl the finished product. I mean, a vapire-hunting librarian -- how much cooler can you GET? :DD

That has happened to me with fic before, also! I always make sure I leave the document open or the paper lying in plain sight once I finish & before I go to bed, or I'll completely forget the next morning.

faeriemaiden November 20 2006, 02:42:14 UTC

Yeah, other than Robin McKinley's brilliant and delicious Sunshine and some YA tripe which will not be named (it was all about HIGH SCHOOL and DATING and the plot was pastede on yay at the end and there wasn't any pretty gothicness at all, really, and the writing was bland, and the main characters Just Happened to have really gothic names which nothing appropriately gothic ever came of, and by the end of the book I wanted to impale the main character with something pointy and metal because, despite her claim of having her mother as a best friend, the only person she 'lived for' was her vampire boyfriend, and no-one else mattered, which was made very clear by the end--what is this stupid author teaching teenagers, anyway?), I haven't read a whole lot of vampire lit. either; I've just been intruiged by it, because, hey, well-done gothicness is gorgeous, and there's always potential for symbolism ( ... )

wanderlight November 20 2006, 03:30:03 UTC

Banui, that was the longest bracket I have EVER SEEN. You should win an award, or something. *hands award* :DD

I think I know what you mean about gothic novels. In order for a book to really work, all parts of it need to be working together to create the whole, and writing voice contributes a lot to that. Eg. Stephen Chbosky's stripped-down prose works really well in The Perks of Being A Wallflower; Montgomery's spelling mistakes make Emily of New Moon that much more authentic.

And gothic novels really do need that "otherworldly" atmosphere to them -- I mean, they're about in-between places and transience; the way they're written should reflect that. I would love to find a novelist who's got that tone dead-on; tell me if you ever do, because I haven't, yet.

I suppose that means that I should stay away from The Thirteenth Tale, then? ;) Far, far away? The idea of a book-within-a-book is an interesting one, but it'd be terrible to see butchered. Ouch.

Actually, in that Neil Gaiman short story anthology which you can't get ahold of, ( ... )

liveonthesun November 19 2006, 02:08:12 UTC

I love the name Evangeline! I've been planning on naming one of my daughters that. I just can't find a good middle name to go with it...

Your story sounds fascinating! I've had a plot bunny for an original story playing around in my head for a few months. I'm going to have to ask my College Algebra teacher if I can use it, because it's very loosely based on a crazy family story she told us. I keep forgetting to ask her, and I don't want to start writing it and get all excited about it, and then ask her and have her say no, and dash all my dreams.

faeriemaiden November 20 2006, 02:45:08 UTC

I really love long names that aren't too awkward. I would love to name my daughters, say, Imogen, Charlotte, Eloise, and Marina. Whichever ones my husband doesn't agree on will get recycled as character names. :D

Oho! Now that you've told me about this, I will HAUNT YOU. MWAHAHA. Er. *waggles eyebrows* You must write it. I don't know what it is, but I shan't let you turn an opportunity down!

liveonthesun November 20 2006, 12:51:35 UTC

I'll go ahead and give you the basics of it, just to get another writer's input on whether or not it's a good plot ( ... )

lady_moriel November 21 2006, 06:05:59 UTC

Once I pulled a loose baby tooth out in the middle of the night and set it on the hotel nightstand next to me. Then I woke up that morning and thought I must have dreamed it, because there was no tooth around anywhere...but it wasn't in my mouth, either.

Um, yeah. Anyway. I still think Evangeline is awesome, and I will also bug you until you write her. I am also almost positive that I have read at least one decent vampire book besides Sunshine, and I can't for the life of me remember what. Well, there's of course the 30 Days of Night trilogy, but...you know what I think about that. (On the other hand, I suppose it's...interesting. I don't know. There are, maybe, two or three cool parts out of the whole trilogy, really.)