Experiment

I'll go to bed in a few and get up at 3a.m. again to talk to the Compuserve lot. For them it's 9p.m. then :)

I'll see if I maybe get some-/anything written down, and perhaps I'll do this tomorrow again. And if I get good ideas in the night, maybe I'll do this every weekend.

In the night when all is silent and even the air seems to be asleep, inspiration may strike...

e.e. cummings

I've been watching Emergency Room yesterday evening with my parents. It was the episode where Abby marries Luca.
Abby recited a wonderful poem by e.e. cummings and I thought I'd post it here


i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

Mary Sue

The discussion on Jenny's blog, if her Elspeth is a Mary Sue (I personally don't think so) made me wonder about Ella.

So I took the two tests mentioned by precie and here are the results.

Score for this test:
14
The Non-Sue. Your character is a well-developed, balanced person, and is almost certainly not a Mary Sue. Congratulations!

And for this:
Ella is only a little like you. She isn't really very cool: she blends into crowds, she hangs out on the fringes at parties, and wearing shades after dark makes her run into things. She may have sometimes thought that she was special, or destined for greater things, but probably dismissed the idea as a fantasy. She's come in for her share of hurt, but gotten off with minor damage. And she's gotten no slack from you.

In general, you care deeply about Ella, but you're smart enough to let her stand on her own, without burdening her with your personal fantasies or propping her up with idealization and over-dramatization. Ella is a healthy character with a promising career ahead of her.

Score Breakdown
I Love Her, I Let Her Go 5
You Mean Plaid Is Out? 9
I'm Destined For What? 5
Can't Complain 7
Momma HATES Her! 0
Total: 26


Although if you look at the questions, you'll find that they are sometimes difficult to apply to a character in a fantasy world (regarding eye colour, certain behaviour etc.) as that world listens to different rules than ours

Inspiration

I'm a bit stuck at the moment. So today I browsed fictionpress.com (a daughter of fanfiction.net, where I read a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction - there, I admitted it!).

As this story will be Fantasy I had a look at their Fantasy section. I haven't read much yet, but what I've read hasn't really been that inspiring.
And I'm afraid if I like something I won't be able to leave it out of my story...

I saw Diana's post on First Lines today, over at Compuserve, and gave it a try. I hadn't even considered the beginning before, but I sat down and thought on it a bit, and I guess I got something, I can work with.

So how do you like this?:

Receiving a letter with the government crest on it was always a bad thing; but this was exponentially worse.

Aftermath

Today I'll be busy with cleaning away the rest of what's left of my birthday party.
But hopefully I'll be getting back to writing tomorrow.

I noticed that what I've written lately has more often than not been rather gloomy. Perhaps I'll write a cheerful birthday scene. Not for the stoy itself but for me. :)

Birthday

It's still my birthday for another 2 hours and 47 minutes...

I'm happy and exhausted. :) The weather was behaving in my favour, after it had been cloudy and rainy the last few days, the sun was shining today.

As for presents: For years and years I've been trying to get my family to get me books. But they couldn't be persuaded. Only every now and then I got one (like Diana's).
This year my wishlist consisted of almost nothing else but books and gift certificates for books aaand... I got them :) For the next few weeks I'll do nothing but browsing my bookstore. :)

Oh well...

...or not.

I've been feeling ill all day, went home earlier than usual. The kind of ill, where you don't really know what to do with yourself.

Perhaps I should write about it - they do say you should take inspiration from things around you, no?
And Taisha will not be used to the food the others have with them on their journey (her being born to a high family)...