Thursday, May 22, 2003Something to ponderHistorical fiction. Not really all that far from fan fiction really. Uses characters that exist/existed, exerts the author's imagination into known situations and scenes. I wonder if it has the same stigma fan fic does. I'll tell you what made me think about this, and it began when I watched 'Hitler: The Rise of Evil' on CBS this week. I have always been fascinated with the Holocaust and the struggles and atrocities suffered by the Jews (not fascinated so much as horrified yet entranced by the fact that it actually happened.) But I never knew much beyond the basics about Hitler himself. In fact, about all I knew was he was a hypnotic orator, and then a monster, and then he killed himself. Sad eh? So after watching this movie I discovered he had, or might have had some sort of perverse relationship with his niece, Geli and I looked up some info online about it. In doing that, I stumbled onto a book called Hitler's Niece which is... dum dum dum.... historical fiction about that whole 'affair'. I'm gonna read that book and see what I thinkabout trying my hand at some historical fiction myself afters. posted by Melia @ 07:01 PM CST [Link] [Discuss] [No Comments] Freewrite I'm going to try some freewriting for a bit. If it seems scattered and bizarre, well that's a good indicator of where my head is  (For anyone reading this who doesn't know what I mean by Freewrite, it just means that I set an amount of time, five minutes perhaps, where I have to continune typing/writing nonstop. So I basically just type anything that pops in my head, and if I get stuck I type the same word over and over again until something new comes along. Sometimes it's all gibberish and nonsensical, sometimes nifty ideas are born. We shall see.)Here goes.... ----------------------------- So Michael Jackson's on my Launch station at the moment. What a freak. Ack I backspaced, not meant to do that. I guess it's just the weirdness that is Michael Jackson that tripped me up. I have a bad habit of editing as I type rather than going back to re-read what i wrote. I dunno why I'm rambling about that. What i really need to do is concentrate on a story idea of some kind. I had the Mary idea but just couldn't develop it. I think I vaccillated too much on which way I wanted to go with it. Can I do horror really? I doubt it. It would just come out cheesy. It's hard to put the suspense elements in and ultimately, that's what I like most in a horror movie or story - suspense. Keep your fecking gory shite - yick that's gross gross gross gross. Really gross - hehe see? I got stuck on gross. Meth can kill you you know. Advert on Launch comparing your heart on meth and your normal heartbeat which I suppose leads to a heart attack. I don't know I've never tried Meth. And I never will. Drugs are bad. Well duh. Thank you Reagan Reagan Reagan.... Is he dead yet? I can't remember if he died. So anyway, skeletons in the closet, let's see.. What about a story about someone going to any and every length to hide a skeleton in his closet - like he murdered someone..... hmmm Is that too Poe? I don't know. He feels no remorse cos he's a total sociopath. He just doesn't want to get caught and ruin his perfect life. Say he murdered a child? No ewwww I can't write about a child's death. So he murdered... who did he murder. Whooo... ummm, a hooker? no, hate to say it, too inconsequential. No one would care. sad but true. He killed someone high profile and the skeleton is literally in his closet. Hehehee. How the feck do you cover that up? I dunno.. --------------- Ah that was a ten minute free write then. Didn't go too badly. I paused a lot though. The trick is to just type, but my damn habit of correcting typos etc as i go got in the way. And I have a bad alt-tab habit too. I multitask too much. Ah well, will work on that. posted by Melia @ 03:20 PM CST [Link] [Discuss] [No Comments] |
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