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selkie at 10:56am on 24/01/2005
selkie at 10:56am on 24/01/2005Dude, spare me having to write anything of consequence ever again. And please scoop my eyes out with the cheapest possible plastic ice-cream scoop, so that I learn the error of my geeky ways and never again base a short story on utter fucking esoterica.
Ze writing, she does not go well.
It is probably my own fault, but I can't imagine how people on the steppes would have spoken to one another. I don't think anyone else really knows, either -- pox on yer Neolithic-derived cultures for not leaving hermetically sealed time capsules and not having female diarists to spare -- but since I'm the writer, it is rather a handicap when no one but your narrator has a coherent voice so far. And I know my co-protagonist would likely speak differently because she's from somewhere different, but I really hate when writers try to do dialect and it gets gimmicky, so I am preemptively annoyed with myself.
Yup, I can make anything look complicated.
I have wind and snow and chill to spare, around here, at least. If I was a -- a method writer, I'd be all set.
So off I go to make a third attempt at an oral-tradition noncomformist tale with vague erotica. The vague erotica, in case you wondered, is contractual.
Also, I must pause and accuse my fiancee of listening to me. On an iTunes playlist innocuously labeled 'Selkie 2', there is a really good version of 'Eia Mater', from 'Stabat Mater', which I mentioned in passing conversation to her approximately four months ago, and of which I am very fond.
Yes. Yes, I like countertenor. What's wrong with that?
Benjamin Britten wrote his Puck for countertenor!
Stop looking at me like that.
I banish you all to the steppes.
Ze writing, she does not go well.
It is probably my own fault, but I can't imagine how people on the steppes would have spoken to one another. I don't think anyone else really knows, either -- pox on yer Neolithic-derived cultures for not leaving hermetically sealed time capsules and not having female diarists to spare -- but since I'm the writer, it is rather a handicap when no one but your narrator has a coherent voice so far. And I know my co-protagonist would likely speak differently because she's from somewhere different, but I really hate when writers try to do dialect and it gets gimmicky, so I am preemptively annoyed with myself.
Yup, I can make anything look complicated.
I have wind and snow and chill to spare, around here, at least. If I was a -- a method writer, I'd be all set.
So off I go to make a third attempt at an oral-tradition noncomformist tale with vague erotica. The vague erotica, in case you wondered, is contractual.
Also, I must pause and accuse my fiancee of listening to me. On an iTunes playlist innocuously labeled 'Selkie 2', there is a really good version of 'Eia Mater', from 'Stabat Mater', which I mentioned in passing conversation to her approximately four months ago, and of which I am very fond.
Yes. Yes, I like countertenor. What's wrong with that?
Benjamin Britten wrote his Puck for countertenor!
Stop looking at me like that.
I banish you all to the steppes.
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