kissed the boys and made them cry (or i need music)
So, I started writing again.
It's the kind of writing where you have to plan characters and write their life story on paper before you can even think of plot. I have a main character that I've been working on since I was fifteen, back when I still thought that I wanted to be a surgeon. He's pretty awesome if you ask me, also kind of endearing in the roll-your-eyes-at-him kind of way. He's also funny which I find interesting because the only time I can ever be funny is on paper.
Anyway, he has his friend, if you can call her that, and I've worked on her since I was fifteen too, except she was more of an after thought. I had this thing back then where I hated on almost all the girls I saw on TV. Might still have some of that now. I'm not a raging feminist, and trust me I know because I've met some, but from where my family comes from women sit at home and do chores. My mother disagrees and she raised me to disagree and so I just have very little tolerance for TV's women (unless they're Morgana from Merlin, in which case complete respect, even if she is crazy). Most TV women though scream at spiders and hide behind men when they are completely capable of doing the things on their own. I hate that. Basically, this means that my girl main character was just thrown together, but I've decided to make her my main character and work on the story that way. It's an exercise for me to see just how much of a sexist person I really am and to maybe not hate on script writers because I'm sure they can't help themselves. It's all in the way society conditions us.
Right, so back to what I was saying. I really have faith in this novel for some reason. It came to me when I was reading Romeo and Juliet for the 2893rd time because even if Shakespeare was a perv, he was amazing at what he did. Most of the awe I have for the man is probably because, like cheese_on_sauce once said, he writes differently than we do now. He was a nobody in his time and we probably wouldn't have given him a second thought if we came from his time period. I like the man. I like his plays. I wanted to write something in line with Romeo and Juliet, but modern.
I ended up with something completely different. Seriously. It's like trying to compare Jersey Shore and Merlin. And I apologize because I just equated Romeo and Juliet to Jersey Shore. I take it back...and moving on.
I like Poe and Anne Rice. They have to be my favorite authors for the darker stuff. Things is, I can't write anything good unless I have the right kind of music and my roommate was talking about this the other day. She says she listens to songs sometimes just so she can feel things. I get it. It's how I write; plug in the headphones and listen to things that will make me want to cry. It helps center me and also produces some of the best writing I've done. It's also a beautiful alternative to Poe's drug use.
Anddddd back. Does anyone have any good music? Something slow that a makes you want to draw on your arms in black marker? Or a song with good lyrics?
I am in serious need of good music.
It's the kind of writing where you have to plan characters and write their life story on paper before you can even think of plot. I have a main character that I've been working on since I was fifteen, back when I still thought that I wanted to be a surgeon. He's pretty awesome if you ask me, also kind of endearing in the roll-your-eyes-at-him kind of way. He's also funny which I find interesting because the only time I can ever be funny is on paper.
Anyway, he has his friend, if you can call her that, and I've worked on her since I was fifteen too, except she was more of an after thought. I had this thing back then where I hated on almost all the girls I saw on TV. Might still have some of that now. I'm not a raging feminist, and trust me I know because I've met some, but from where my family comes from women sit at home and do chores. My mother disagrees and she raised me to disagree and so I just have very little tolerance for TV's women (unless they're Morgana from Merlin, in which case complete respect, even if she is crazy). Most TV women though scream at spiders and hide behind men when they are completely capable of doing the things on their own. I hate that. Basically, this means that my girl main character was just thrown together, but I've decided to make her my main character and work on the story that way. It's an exercise for me to see just how much of a sexist person I really am and to maybe not hate on script writers because I'm sure they can't help themselves. It's all in the way society conditions us.
Right, so back to what I was saying. I really have faith in this novel for some reason. It came to me when I was reading Romeo and Juliet for the 2893rd time because even if Shakespeare was a perv, he was amazing at what he did. Most of the awe I have for the man is probably because, like cheese_on_sauce once said, he writes differently than we do now. He was a nobody in his time and we probably wouldn't have given him a second thought if we came from his time period. I like the man. I like his plays. I wanted to write something in line with Romeo and Juliet, but modern.
I ended up with something completely different. Seriously. It's like trying to compare Jersey Shore and Merlin. And I apologize because I just equated Romeo and Juliet to Jersey Shore. I take it back...and moving on.
I like Poe and Anne Rice. They have to be my favorite authors for the darker stuff. Things is, I can't write anything good unless I have the right kind of music and my roommate was talking about this the other day. She says she listens to songs sometimes just so she can feel things. I get it. It's how I write; plug in the headphones and listen to things that will make me want to cry. It helps center me and also produces some of the best writing I've done. It's also a beautiful alternative to Poe's drug use.
Anddddd back. Does anyone have any good music? Something slow that a makes you want to draw on your arms in black marker? Or a song with good lyrics?
I am in serious need of good music.