more nano babbling

[kleenexwoman]

Tonight's schedule: Write bit introducing Douglas. Question is where I want to go with this: Do I show a snippet of his normal day with the bully torture and lack of girl and general alienation in order to cement character, or do I skip straight to the finding-the-alien part and trust that either A) the reader will already know that Douglas is George and therefore a pathetic geek, or B) it'll come through anyway? (Also I need to figure out what his last name is.) Do I dare shove in introspection? Should I quote Bradbury? Where the hell is my copy of "The Martian Chronicles" anyway? Shit, I left it at home.

Anyway, I'll be in the computer lab typing away all night, chain-smoking and wearing a fedora as usual. Actually, I'll be chewing eyeball gum and drinking this nasty energy-drink pop that I bought a bottle of by accident today. (I thought I pressed the button for Cherry Coke, but nooo...) But I will be wearing the hat. The hat is important.

ghostgecko rocks my socks. Because, drawing. And now I really really have to get to work.

By the way? Feel free to comment on the chapters. Tell me what you like and what you didn't like. A lot of this is just off-the-cuff, and I want to know what I'm doing right, if anything, so that I can do more of it.

Also requesting recommendations for songs about aliens that I can download and listen to once my laptop gets back. I need music to listen to over and over to write to, otherwise I get too bored with silence.

Right. Love you all.

Comments

[foxywriter.livejournal.com]

Some alien songs that come to mind --

"I Want an Alien for Christmas" by Fountains of Wayne

"My Alien" by Simple Plan

Ha ha, I always wanted a "writer's hat" to wear when creating. Alas, I just never found one to my liking....

[ghostgecko.livejournal.com]

"50,000 Spaceships Watching Over Me" and "Evading the Greys" by the Groovie Ghoulies. The first one is sort of hillbilly punk, the second is very groovy and laid-back.

[bestfiend.livejournal.com]

Gee-willikers! They let you smoke in the computer lab? I'd think a horde of anti-smoking fanatics would pull you out of the lab and impale you on a birch pole! Out here, you can't smoke within 50 feet of *any* public building. Sheesh. Happy writing!

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Heheheh. Well, not literally smoking; the whole dorm is smoke-free, alcohol-free. I use candy cigarettes or a toothpick or gum to chew on while I'm writing instead. Oral fixation, I think; I just can't feel like a hard-bitten pulp hack if I don't have something in my mouth being ripped to shreds.

[ghostgecko.livejournal.com]

Marbles! That's what I suck on when writing. Or these nice smooth pebbles I bought at the Discovery store.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Might try that...although I'd be afraid I'd swallow them or break my teeth.

[ghostgecko.livejournal.com]

Suck on them, not chew on them. :)

[bestfiend.livejournal.com]

You burst my bubble! :-)

I liked imagining that you'd be writing your NaMo in a dark, smoky computer lab. Maybe a couple of rowdy characters would need to be tossed out by a big bald bouncer. You'd definitely need to pack heat. Anyway, candy cigarettes and eyeball gum is sufficiently sinister in my book!

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

That is such an awesome mental image. It's like something out of a William Gibson version of "Naked Lunch."

a song about aliens

[vicfitz82.livejournal.com]

They Might Be Giants, on their album Miscellaneous T, did a song about a girl from Venus. I think it was called "For Science."

Re: a song about aliens

[dr-ninjapants.livejournal.com]

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!

I can post the MP3 of this one if you're interested ;)

[neverreal.livejournal.com]

i'm so jealous that you still have cherry coke over ther.

um..alien songs.
martian hop by the ran-dells? i think that's their name
aliens exist by blink-182
attack of the giant ants by blondie (well, the ants are from outer space so i guess it counts as an alien song?)
purple people eater by sheb wooley
and technically sweet transvestite would count as one, too.

[dr-ninjapants.livejournal.com]

DUDE, has no one recommended EVERYTHING by David Bowie ever? But especially everything off his Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust album?

So like...

Life on Mars, Ziggy Stardust, Starman, and so on? I can probably rip some of these for you but... sadly I cannot find my CD wallet which for no good reason is where my CD of Ziggy Stardust is, so you're better off downloading those.

Pennywise also did a song called Alien.

Mmm...sexy...

[wolf-heart9.livejournal.com]

It's not fair. Picturing you in the writer-fedora and the candy cigarettes. Too damned sexy. And you're too far away. Dammit.

Second, trying to think of alien songs. Having a hard time doing so. Homework has eaten my brain.

[oddzade.livejournal.com]

And why has no one recommended Third Eye Blind's "Darwin" yet?

[lemmealone.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I'll be in the computer lab typing away all night, chain-smoking and wearing a fedora as usual

Hmm. Substitute armchair for computer lab and manic grin for fedora and you've got a picture of yours truly sitting in your head. *g* Of course, the chain smoking part is more getting up and wandering outside for a cigarette every five hundred words, but still...