guess what, I'm a dork

[kleenexwoman]

FANDOM STUFF:

--Here, I wrote a little drabble about spies smoking cigarettes because I wanted cigarettes but should cut down on the cigarettes.
--Here, in comments, I stole a very short story and turned it into the first metered, rhymed thing I've written for months.
--Here, my boyfriend wrote a story about cigarettes that's way better than my thing about cigarettes.

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR DEVELOPMENTS! I'm not filtering the heck out of this stuff anymore because I'm just not. Also, I've had some sort of headache for the past few days that's not exactly so much a headache, more like just a mass of bandages hugging my skull very tightly and surrounding me in a fluffy, soothing cloud of disorientation. Guess why.

Oh, great, Sammi has a cold and I'm going to get it in about three weeks. >:[ Should I start stocking up on Vitamin C or just wait until the sniffles start and ride it out?

ROLE PLAYING GAME STUFF:

--My Changeling character, Bloody Sylvia, got tapped to join the Ministry of the Scarecrow, a secret society dedicated to creating and perpetuating urban legends in order to scare mortals away from places where they might be stolen by the Fae. I'm psyched. One of the reasons why I stayed in Changeling is that it's still possible to create and shape storylines without having to stir up a bunch of interpersonal drama. I hope I can do something cool with this.
--I'm thinking of creating a one-off or two-off Changeling game, just for a few people, for fun--something along the lines of mortals trapped in a fairytale. The trick may be finding a fairytale that's obscure enough so that people won't know exactly what to do, but still usable with three or four players. It'd be my first time ever GMing.

Comments

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was more fun than I remembered, but I almost feel like it was cheating because it wasn't quite my own words.

I want to do some silly stunt like writing an entire fanfic in metered verse--I actually had this idea where I'd write a story from different characters' points of view using different forms for each character (the antagonist, for example, would get a villanelle, mostly because I like the rather feeble pun there), but I may have to work up to it.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

Versification is a real skill. If you can versify other people's words, you can fix the rhythm of your own, too. That's priceless.

How long would that fanfic be? 'Aurorielle', at 38000 words, is the only example I know of anyone ever carrying that off in anything other than a one or two page poem (and I couldn't name one of those offhand either).

The thing I am working on just gets harder and harder, because the amount of detail and content I am finding through research is phenomenal. I do wonder if I'll ever manage it; target is 100,000 words in just that manner, but that is for book one of the trilogy, now, as far as I can see. Think, writing the Lord of the Rings in that manner with photographic illustrations, and you'll see what I've taken on. At least the illustrations are coming along ---

I'd encourage you to practice forms for their own sake; to put everyday events or news stories into forms simply as an exercise (many of them will turn out to be viable and worthwhile poems in their own right) and to gain skill in finding the form that best expresses character or action in each given case.

Expect help and advice; I strongly suspect there is just you and me in this at all. And yet, once one sees the method work, it appears the most natural thing on earth to do with poetry, everything else looking flat footed and stereotyped.