The thing about me is when I decide to write something, I always get three or more story ideas going up at the same time. It’s like my mind produces mushroom clusters all over. Which is a kind of way of saying my mind is full of shit. Anyway, here’s a sample of one of the outbreaks. It may or may not develop into a story or novelette. I will give a hint to it’s plot: it’s sort of connected with the current troubles, but it takes place in the near future and isn’t much to do with what is going on in the exact here and now. And the conflict isn’t so much to do with global issues as more personal ones having to do with character and how ordinary people deal with sudden transforming events. I can see the vague outlines of the story as a whole, but I don’t have all the details yet — just atmosphere, and some of the characters’ outlines. I’m still looking for names. (I’m bad at names.)
Update: I think I’ll put all my writing stuff here. It’s a Livejournal site. I like the style of the main page — I wish there was some way to carry over the styles to the individual entry pages and comment pages though. Their default style for those is rather utilitarian. (Full disclosure: and early, pre-blog site is on LJ, though under a different user name. Here are those old entries. Notice the day I didn’t post. I was at my ex-BF’s house, watching the TV like the rest of the universe.)
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November 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Well, you’re a wonderful writer, that is beyond doubt. Please consider your assured future public: those who read books and watch movies and sigh at the leftist stupidity which underlies and undercuts the work of otherwise reasonably talented people.
There are whole universes of uncharted land out there. Leftist stupidity is a topic to fill a hundred writer lifetimes. I was reading somewhere (here?) about a writer noting that no one is honestly writing up the PC world of college campuses. There was that documentary Indoctrinate-U a while back, but there are no novels, no fiction that really explores the subject.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:50 am
“I was reading somewhere (here?) about a writer noting that no one is honestly writing up the PC world of college campuses.”
That was the Tom Wolfe article I linked to in a recent post. I do believe that it’s true that there aren’t many treatments of modern-day campus life. I’ve read several short stories, but they mostly treated the campus as background to the main character’s life. I’ve seen a few movies (PCU, a comedy from the Nineties that I can recommend, and a few murder mystery movies, and crime series like Murder, She Wrote also often used a backdrop of college life… but not all that many books. That might be why people seem to still think of college life as some sort of academic idyll. All I know is that if I were a parent, I’d never allow my child to live in a dorm. I’d rather they went to community college or trade school first. (Full disclosure: I never wanted to live in a dorm — it seemed too much like the few overnight trips I’d gone on in high school where I couldn’t get a wink of sleep because all the other students turned our hotel room into an all-night party. I hated anything to do with student life; I liked my own room where I could be alone. So I went to community college and got my Associates. That got me into UCF as a junior. But I still haven’t finished my Bachelor’s — I just lost interest in college life.)