When Characters Attack!
Aug. 26th, 2004 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWhy is there no mood, "schizophrenic"?
So, this afternoon at lunch, after finishing up the book I was reading, I settled down to write a little. I was feeling uninspired; the idea for the Janae series was fun to begin with, but now it starts to wear thin and make me wonder if I could pull it off, so I wandered through my directories looking for something interesting. And I stumbled upon a collection of old files-- and now that my Japanese is better I could follow them better-- and as I was re-reading them, Eshi started bugging me.
"All you ever write about these days is Misuko and Linia and Wish. Who's this Janae woman?" She peered at the screen. "And Chris? Who's she? Oh, it's a he."
"I'm trying to set Aaden up with somone who'll make Ken jealous."
"But... you never write about Kaede and me anymore!"
I tried to explain that I thought her story was mostly over. And they lived happily ever after, and all that. "But we lived in a time of great social upheaval," she complained. "Spacers were supposed to be weird. Kaede's marriage to me wasn't really legal in many places in those days. You remember. This is before there was a Corridor! This is back when llerkin was a backwater and nobody was sure what to do with them. There have to be a million stories you could tell about that time."
I sighed. "Do you have any idea how much I want to write, Eshi? Forget the current fads. There's Prospero's story over there, and Toby and Kasserine over there... and what about Polly? He's still waiting for me to write his story."
"It doesn't have to be 35 K-words again.. Just something, okay?"
"Okay. I'll think of something. No promises, though."
It's nice when they remember that I'm here, but do they always have to be so pushy about it?
So, this afternoon at lunch, after finishing up the book I was reading, I settled down to write a little. I was feeling uninspired; the idea for the Janae series was fun to begin with, but now it starts to wear thin and make me wonder if I could pull it off, so I wandered through my directories looking for something interesting. And I stumbled upon a collection of old files-- and now that my Japanese is better I could follow them better-- and as I was re-reading them, Eshi started bugging me.
"All you ever write about these days is Misuko and Linia and Wish. Who's this Janae woman?" She peered at the screen. "And Chris? Who's she? Oh, it's a he."
"I'm trying to set Aaden up with somone who'll make Ken jealous."
"But... you never write about Kaede and me anymore!"
I tried to explain that I thought her story was mostly over. And they lived happily ever after, and all that. "But we lived in a time of great social upheaval," she complained. "Spacers were supposed to be weird. Kaede's marriage to me wasn't really legal in many places in those days. You remember. This is before there was a Corridor! This is back when llerkin was a backwater and nobody was sure what to do with them. There have to be a million stories you could tell about that time."
I sighed. "Do you have any idea how much I want to write, Eshi? Forget the current fads. There's Prospero's story over there, and Toby and Kasserine over there... and what about Polly? He's still waiting for me to write his story."
"It doesn't have to be 35 K-words again.. Just something, okay?"
"Okay. I'll think of something. No promises, though."
It's nice when they remember that I'm here, but do they always have to be so pushy about it?
