I Predict an Internal Riot

[dotinthesky]

We watched The Thing last night. Sometime in the early hours of the morning, I heard Kevin cry "No! No!" in his sleep. So I rubbed his back and hugged him. When I woke up this morning, he was furiously writing in his journal about a nightmare: he was a kid with telekinetic powers, he flew, and he had to save his mother from a nefarious man who had lived in the forest surrounding his farm in Canada. I told him he wasn't allowed to watch scary movies anymore before going to bed.

Yesterday, I agreed to go out with one of the sissies, Jennifer, shoe shopping. I'd forgotten the cardinal rule that everyman holds so dear: never go shoe shopping with a woman. And also never walk into H&M when you have just drawn 100 pounds from your bank account, otherwise you'll end up with more cords you can wear and stripey wine-coloured polo shirts that make you look like a Scandinavian fisherman. And, finally, never ever walk into Top Shop on a weekend (unless you enjoy seeing half of the population of London packed into 20 metres square area). After hours of this, my feet were killing me and I had to skip out on meeting thessalian for the insane NaNoWriMo meeting in Leicester Square's Starkbucks. Since I know this is going to be a weekend feature for the whole month, I'm sure she won't mind if I show up to the next one. ;+)

The novel is coming along fine. Writing a novel isn't hard; it's making it any good which seems almost impossible. I keep repeating several different mantras, I meditate, I hope for inspiration in my dreams. Anything to keep my characters from descending into mundane dialogue. Yesterday, I finally wrote my first "horror" scene. For a while, I'd forgotten I actually needed to indulge in the genre's specifics. The plot was getting too internal and cerebral, if you get my drift. Now I can get the horror snowball rolling and see how many limbs get caught in it. That's why people read horror, right?

I'm behind my word input so I have to sit down today and concentrate. I need to go out later to buy some food at Tesco Express. And to swim.

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Comments

[kenoster.livejournal.com]

I would like to read your novel when you finish it.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You are going to have to buy it from Amazon! Mwahahaha!

[violentlyhappy.livejournal.com]

Oi meu, como vão as coisas? =o)

Hei-de fazer compras também, não fui ao supermercado há um par das semanas - esta manhã para o pequeno almoço comi uma fartura, e para o almoço comi uma fartura e umas batatas fritas...Bàsicamente eu necessito ir muito logo a Iceland ou algo assim! =o|

Agora vou-me arranjar, então poderei ir e voltar antes do começo de Coronation Street! =oP Sunita é livre!! =oD

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Haha! Voce deveria comprar champagne e celebrar a liberdade de Sunita! :P

[violentlyhappy.livejournal.com]

Certamente! =o) É minha carátera preferida...♥

Mas eu gosto da Maya também - é louca, sem dúvida, mas as suas esquemas de mal eram óptimas!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Nao sou chegado nas novelas daqui... prefiro as novelas brasileiras!

[violentlyhappy.livejournal.com]

Eu nunca vi uma novela brasileira...realmente eu nunca vi nenhuma novela em português =o( Minha mãe tem um canal português, mas só tem umas notícias e umas coisas religiosas....e o apresentador me irrita além da razão...

Envia-me umas novelas brasileiras, faz favor! =oD

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Pergunte para sua mae se ela ja assistiu alguma! Vou te passar o site de algumas novelas. Voce pode ver como sao os atores, etc. As novelas do Brasil sao boas. Tem personagems gays, fantasmas, vampiros! Sao muito loucas.

[i-am-scowling.livejournal.com]

H&M, how I love you. We have one in DC, and I try to keep my distance.

Dialogue is always key; I'm watching Angels in America, taken from the play by Tony Kushner, and the dialogue is amaaazing. Kushner is genius, and now I'm trying to find the actual play to read (and annotate and drool over)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Hey, there's a made for tv movie of "Angels in America"... I heard it was quite good.

That's a very good tip, to read plays. I might do that! I find it hard to have my characters speaking in a flowing and unstiff way. I'm just not used to writing dialogues.

[i-am-scowling.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's why i stick to poetry ;)

but yeah, try reading plays! that's the best format to extract dialouge from.