You often talk about your emo!Gene, but I don't believe I've ever seen you write a Gene I thought was emo to the point of being OOC. Where have you pushed him over that line?
the message of the story
I know I've talked big about deciding things, but a lot of that is ideas that have become clearer with distance. When I wrote this, I really had no plans for messages or issues, just a story. It's odd that my commentary makes it sound as if I planned things; I can only think that some of this stuff was going on subconsciously as I was writing.
*stands and gapes at you in raw fascination and envy*
Hah!!! Seriously, it's not a question of discipline, it's the only way I can do it. I don't have "vision"; I can't keep the overall shape of things in my mind, so I have to do it step by plodding step. I can't remember two things at once, for example whether Sam has put his trousers on yet and what he's going to say about Rathbone. So I go through the bits in individual strands, getting them each in the right order, and then I entwine them, hoping the joins won't show. (If you think this is disciplined, you should see some of the early planning for An Unhappy Man. In fact, do - for the accident at the end I'm emailing you the table of actions and the multi-coloured first draft, so you can have a good laugh and gape at me some more, because I don't know if I'll ever get round to doing the commentary - there's just TOO MUCH!)
And you make it look so easy!!!! Well, thank you, but the key word here is "look". I read an interesting comment once, made to a person with severe confidence issues: "You're comparing your insides to other people's outsides."
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the message of the story
I know I've talked big about deciding things, but a lot of that is ideas that have become clearer with distance. When I wrote this, I really had no plans for messages or issues, just a story. It's odd that my commentary makes it sound as if I planned things; I can only think that some of this stuff was going on subconsciously as I was writing.
*stands and gapes at you in raw fascination and envy*
Hah!!! Seriously, it's not a question of discipline, it's the only way I can do it. I don't have "vision"; I can't keep the overall shape of things in my mind, so I have to do it step by plodding step. I can't remember two things at once, for example whether Sam has put his trousers on yet and what he's going to say about Rathbone. So I go through the bits in individual strands, getting them each in the right order, and then I entwine them, hoping the joins won't show. (If you think this is disciplined, you should see some of the early planning for An Unhappy Man. In fact, do - for the accident at the end I'm emailing you the table of actions and the multi-coloured first draft, so you can have a good laugh and gape at me some more, because I don't know if I'll ever get round to doing the commentary - there's just TOO MUCH!)
And you make it look so easy!!!!
Well, thank you, but the key word here is "look". I read an interesting comment once, made to a person with severe confidence issues: "You're comparing your insides to other people's outsides."