Thursday 28 August 2003

Pic of the day: Oh, and of course I spent a little time with my Morrowind girlfriend too, when my writing muscles were worn out. Too bad I can't print the pictures in my head, though... I guess I should count myself lucky that I can write down the words.

Another writing day

What can I say? It may not be great literature, but I've been writing down the story as it comes to me. It is the kind of story I would like to read myself, and now I get the opportunity. That's something. My hand and arm puts an upper limit to how much I can write, more than anything else, now. Chapter 2, barely 4 pages long, is finished. 3 pages of chapter 3. I had to break off there.

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I'm not ready to upload the story when it is so young. There may be retroactive changes, although probably only in small practical details. I am not much worried over the decency this time. I know that infatuation between cousins is kinda controversial in some cultures, but I don't expect people from those cultures to read me anyway. And besides, it is not like they are actually doing anything physical, certainly not so far. (They're only 15!) Basically my approach here is the same as in several Japanese coming-of-age anime, where a character falls in love with a cousin or childhood sweetheart but later realizes that adult love is a different and more mysterious thing – but that a friendship can endure where a crush does not.

I have written here before about the cousin as a bridge from the familiar to the unfamiliar, and I would like to add that childhood friends and girls next door fall in the same category. In truth, most people don't marry a complete stranger they meet in a bar ... more likely an old classmate, a friend of a friend, someone they know from church, or (these days) a coworker. While most start to walk the bridge from the familiar to the unfamiliar, not all cross an ocean.

There is certainly plenty of the unfamiliar for the main character in MoM2000 (working title ... I guess I should find a name for it eventually). We're talking entirely different species of intelligent bipeds here, such as dwarves and catgirls. The boy can need all the support he can get, and so can the girl, I guess.

I cannot guarantee how it will develop, though. The characters keep secrets even from me, and new people kinda drift into the story. It is a rule of my writing that characters can back out of any plot I make, but on the other hand I can veto any wild ideas they get. Generally we get along. ^_^

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Ate the last fish balls for lunch today. Anyone who mention fish balls to me for the next couple weeks, do so at their own risk ... ^_^