The Book and The Street- Gabriel Gadfly

The book says to the street,
I am smarter than you:
My academia surpasses your
Idiosyncratic methodology:
In fact,
Ample meditation on my disciplines
Precludes from necessity
Your meager knacks.

The street says to the book,
Say that to my face.
I’ve got a crowbar that will make
Your academia cry.

Multitasking

I'm currently trying to write, both on paper and on here.

I'm having a hard time with the paper medium at the moment, so I'm going to come over here and stimulate my brain muscles (I have more than one brain, okay?!) and get my creativity working like it should.

Currently, I'm writing the build up to a rather important confrontation,this is where you meet the big boss, and all this description stuff is killing me. I really want to avoid being another Tolkein (wrote the Lord of The Rings trilogy and it's prequel, The Hobbit) who was the king of excessive detail. He went on for days about horse saddles and that had nothing to do with plot or character development.
I also don't want to just write simple sentences about a leather saddle on a black horse either. Because then I'll have to go back and do a whole fuckton of editing. Yes, a fuckton is a standard unit of measurement. And since I'm my own editor (via internet tools) I'd rather not do that.

I think I need to pick up some C.S. Lewis. Now there was a guy who had his details down. You were drawn in to Narnia like flies to honey and captivated by the world he had created. And in The Screwtape Letters you are both repulsed and fascinated by the demons mindset. He knew how to keep you in the book. Hang on, I'm going to go get that. Ok.

So moral of the story: Not only is introducing a huge character at the end of the story really friking tricky, translating all these details from your head to paper (or whatever you medium of choice is) makes you want to punch something cute and fluffy.

DISCLAIMER: No cute and/or fluffy things were harmed in the making of this post.

A/N: Read The Screwtape Letters if you've read the Chronicles of Narnia. And if you haven't read the CON, read those too. All of them.

Well, Hi!

I think I suddenly and involuntarily decided to have a life there for a second.

I did have wrist surgery last week so I've been spending the past few days in a narcotic haze, but the healing is coming along nicely, I should be able to go back to normal by the time I have my follow up next week.

On the plus side, I've spent some of my awake time writing and it's coming along nicely. I think I'm going to be one of those weird writers that finishes the ending first and then works up to that. It worked for Rowling, so why the hell not?

I need to start looking at publishing options and researching them. I have a few pages bookmarked, and I'll probably explore them on here.

This post is mostly just to say I'm not dead and I didn't forget.