dragonlady7

I delved back into my original writings folder last night and decided I wasn't so bad at writing after all. Now if only I could finish something. Vikings novel is smaller. Barbarians novel is kinda... well, close to my heart, I think, because the entire thing consists of the kinds of stuff I like to read in novels. So it's basically me writing a novel for me, because I love angst, I love conflicts of desire and duty, I love out-and-out torture, intrigue, underhandedness, and of course, epic battle scenes. Also smut. So of course that's the one I want to work on. It's also the reason that one got out of control-- i was having so much fun writing it I wasn't at all interested in even finishing it and I kept rewriting. But, at least it's neither boring nor banal. I might take a crack at it.

Anyhow.

Still feeling dumb and whiny, so I'm sorta trying to avoid thinking about, like, anything. Dave sent me this this morning and I thought it was funny. This is from the blog of a cartoon cat. (Achewood is the cartoon, and the creator is crazy enough that all his characters have blogs. It's disturbing, weird, and oddly funny.)

Poetry IS boring and difficult. Take a look at this line by Tennyson, in his rimjob of a poem “Tintern Abbey”:

FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.--Once again

Sounds to me like someone was gettin’ paid by the word. That's a pretty long way of saying that you're standing by a creek. Here is how that could be written instead:

DOGG check it I am by this creek;
and I got hell of emotions...in my brain

Basically we all get annoyed when someone uses the old-fashioned Tennyson-type style because you know the writer is just copying the greats and probably wears a gaelic thumb ring.

You know, if I had one, I'd totally wear a gaelic thumb ring.

One last bit of Achewood: on fanfiction and constructive criticism. Snort.