Comments | greygirlbeast: "Feeling like a dead duck, spitting out pieces of his broken luck."

greygirlbeast

"Feeling like a dead duck, spitting out pieces of his broken luck."

Dec 05, 2016 11:55

Right now, I'm not sure if I feel more like I'm going to vomit, pass out, or suddenly come apart in a cataclysm of protoplasmic, subatomic reversal. I might have slept two hours. When I got up at 8 a.m., there was just enough snow on the ground that it was pretty. Now, there's only a quickly melting scab. But it was our first snow of the winter, ( Read more... )

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humming_along December 5 2016, 16:06:38 UTC

You mentioned working on the Red Tree screenplay in past tense. What's the status of that now?

greygirlbeast December 5 2016, 16:08:57 UTC

Complicated.

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greygirlbeast December 5 2016, 17:28:03 UTC

as an author, I have always striven to capture a sense of place and a sense of time. Those things are of utmost importance to be, second only to characterization. Silk and Threshold are the Deep South in the early nineties. But every novel after them I've had to, increasingly, combat this problem. With The Red Tree I tried to mostly ignore it. With The Drowning Girl I did a bad job of making now feel like now and painted Imp as someone out of time (in contrast with Abalyn).

I just don't know.

everville340 December 5 2016, 18:15:36 UTC

From technological psychosocial changes to 'outside looking in' or 'not of here' and beyond, there are times I feel like an abstract twin.

martianmooncrab December 5 2016, 20:07:23 UTC

like a dodo bird in a cyberpunk story

I was trying to visualize what that Dodo would look like and decided it would be a Dada cybird.

Wow. ext_3921234 December 5 2016, 20:43:39 UTC

I turn 50 next month. My partner is 27. I am not sure whether that makes it more palliative. I think it makes it more difficult. I have 2 sons who are 28 and 30; but I see this occurring most in the life of my daughter who is 14. I have been feeling the press of existing out of time, too. I loathe it, which leaves me seething and demonstrating pitiful attempts at imitation that is too young for me to pull off anymore. But I also am curious about it from a socio-cultural standpoint. It is just so beyond me that I couldn't find the best words to describe it...but you have; and I'm troubled by them, but why I am isn't as clearbto me. I fear I have, regardless of my fighting to avoid the contrary, been conditioned somehow to rebel against time and change by my generation, the new generations that came after mine, or some innate human fear that springs out of people when they turn 50. I really think this is one of your very very best, most poignant, LJ entries ever. Because it doesn't leave the residue of an answer. There are no quick ( ... )

RE: Wow. ext_3921234 December 5 2016, 20:48:43 UTC

Sorry about the typos. The phone buttons are small and I'm in a manic cycle and writing too fast.